Castlevania Harmony of Despair [NPUB30505]

I followed these instructions today and my folder looks exactly like you mentioned, but the character select still freezes.  Any other potential options here?  I can play as Soma, but once I click on the character select, game crashes.

Have you added the dummy file inside "\dev_hdd0\game\NPUB30505\USRDIR\dynamic\player"? Remove caches and try to run the game in Interpreter (fast) PPU to see if tts working with these options.