probably worth trying, jo. if anyone has an answer, raydn would be the one.
speaking of which, i did try again, and finally got it to work reliably. had to tinker with evox a bit. my video mode was set to default, which usually works. so i didn't really think much of it. the weird thing was that, after i edited the hex code, it worked under unleash just fine. so, i tried going to evox and playing from there, with the trainer. i got the squiggly lines again. the oddest thing was that when i IGR'd my box, i would get the squigglies (technical terminology?) again. if i turned my box off and turned it back on, unleashx would play it just fine. only when i soft rest did i get the problems. no big deal, it works great now, but i've never run in to that before.
just thought i'd throw that out there.
thanks again, raydn, keep it up.
wes