koF98 as we all know has protection. The effect of this is that enemies can go outside the screen and is not possible to play the game properly. For this a patched version will be used for now.Are we talking about the same problem ? I personally never had a problem with KOF98 boot up, it could be after 10-40 minutes playing in my case.
I will start a fresh sd card again, and redownload every file.
The o ther issue which is newly introduced but only happens to some people is the Red warning screen. I dont have it in any of my motherboards whatever FW I roll back to.
Which one do you have?