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Lichii Black Screen Fix: Seven Checks in Order
A Lichii game shows a black screen? Work the seven checks in order: build version, mode, driver, memory, files, logs and the streaks variant.
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Know your black screen
A black screen in the lichii emulator is not one fault; it is a symptom with a short list of causes, and the order you check them decides how fast you play again. Sound playing over black points one way; a frozen black frame points another; black with white and purple streaks is a known, named fault with a known fix. Begin with the build listed on Lichii official site so your results match ours.
Work this list in order and change one thing at a time. Randomly flipping settings creates combinations nobody has tested, including you, and the log file stops being able to tell you anything clean.
Checks one to four
One: run the current build. The streaked black start in Ocarina of Time traced to a shader translation race and is fixed in current builds; an old build will keep showing it forever. Two: start in handheld mode, the tested mode on Android, before blaming the game. Three: confirm your graphics driver stack is sane; on Xclipse phones the custom RADv driver used in testing exists precisely because driver behaviour decides these faults.
Four: take memory off the table. Close other apps, drop to 0.5x resolution and retry. A game that renders at 0.5x and blacks out at 1x has told you its diagnosis, and it was arithmetic, not corruption.
Checks five to seven
Five: verify your files. Games, keys and firmware from your own console, complete and in the right folders; a title that blacks out at the same early frame every time is often missing a piece it needs at exactly that frame. Six: read the log. The emulator writes eden_log.txt, and its final lines usually name the failing system in plain words.
Seven: isolate the game. If other titles render, the fault is per game: reset that game settings to the baseline and reapply your tuning one step at a time. If nothing renders, the fault is global, and reinstalling the current build over your existing copy, which keeps your saves and settings, is the clean reset. The low memory page covers the closure cousin of this fault.
Related reading: the low memory page.
Related reading: how drivers change rendering.
Quick Answers
I hear sound but see a black screen. What is that?
The game is running and only the rendering path is failing. Work the checks in order: current build, handheld mode, driver, then memory and resolution.
What are the white and purple streaks on a black scene?
A known fault from a shader translation race in earlier builds. Updating to the current build is the fix.
Will reinstalling delete my saves?
No. Installing the current build over your existing copy keeps games, saves and settings, which live outside the app package.