GTA: San Andreas - NoCD Problems

[G-Dorion]

I've been reading through all the posts in this thread but couldn't find an answere to my question. If there is one it would be very kind of you to tell me where to look. thx.
I got the german version of Gta SA and I am using the Hoodlum crack for ALL.
It's been working completely fine for a week. (No problems at all) yesterday eve I played (mission where u gotta save sweet under the brigde and where u are then taken by Tenpenny and u gotta destroy some evidence and take photos of it. First time u can get out of Los Santos I think). I went to grove street and saved, quit the game n watched some dvd on my pc. Today I wanted to start the game as I do always and it simply doesn't start. It seems as if it's trying to (that little sandclock of Windows appears for a short time) but doesn't do nething more. I've been trying all day to fix it without any results. (reboot, reinstalling the crack, so on n so on) might this "Crash fix patch" additional to the crack work?
I got no Idea, thx if u can help me
G-Dorion

[tbaher]

did you say you tried it without the crack and it still didnt work?

[Demondus]

I have a US version of GTA SA, used hoodlum crack and everything works great. I decided to install one of those adapter on my pc usb to use the ps2 controller. Well the game wouldn't start after that, I couldn't for the life of me figure out why, well after much hair pullings I just disconnect the usb ps2 controller and it started again....the problem can be reproduce everytime. Hope this info might help other peoples out.