smashing your controller into a billion pieces following another pause when you are trying to do first touch control is now down with a minimal of problems, with it being activated by :
down, down, down, down, down, DOWN, DOWN, SMASH YOU STUPID F*CK BASTARD GAME, DOWN, DOWN, BIN
I discovered to my horror whilst talking to Ravi, Garbs, and a host of other players that the issues i'm having seem to have more to do with MY copy of the game or the PS2 i'm running it off - time to hook the PSx back up i fear....