i think i might have done too much tinkering with controls...
- i tried mapping to the keypad with the generic layout but the 4 & 6 functioned as left and right, with no way to get out of the options menu (also tried using num lock to see if that was the problem but it only stopped the 4 & 6 from triggering left and right)
- retried with different keypad numbers but nothing triggered 'select' or 'go back'
- said fiwb and decided to map keyboard to generic layout and it switched back to the keyboard look by itself (still nothing responds to 'select' or 'go back'
- also the game got moderately louder ToT
- auto button did ??? not sure
- re-extracted the game and it did not respond past the initial loading screen... oops
either way i love the songs (+ the new tuning!!! so crisp) and maybe my cursed layout was not meant to be