For a full minute, nothing.
The menu options appeared, but they weren't "Story Mode" or "Versus." They were: > REMEMBER HIM > THE CELL GAMES NEVER ENDED > PLAYER 2 HAS LEFT Leo tried to move the cursor with his arrow keys. Nothing. He pressed X. The cursor jumped to "CONTINUE?" by itself.
Buried beneath seventeen layers of sketchy pop-up ads and a forum thread last updated in 2012, the link gleamed like a mythic artifact: --- Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai 9 Ppsspp File
His actual name. Not "Player." Not "User." Leo.
He threw the laptop across the room.
"Probably a cracked intro," Leo muttered, adjusting his glasses.
The screen went black. Not the soft black of a loading screen, but the deep, void-black of a monitor that had forgotten how to glow. For a full minute, nothing
The title screen loaded.