okay so the games started working when I used the m3u from the translated version. Maybe there was something screwy with the other game files I tried or they struggled to work right unless I use an m3u. sigh now if only some of the other cores would recognise the m3u files existing >< that's a topic for another post though

@windg thak you ! i don't care about your enghish my enghilsh under constrution too wow !