bro I've been using vanced since 2018 and I don't even use it for the adblock. It just has a lot of useful features other than just adblock. This sucks.
Damn. Take as much time as you need fixing the issue though. If you get his "Mario Holiday" hack working, Star World should be playable by the time it is released.
It seems like its a whole new game. It's a lot more complex than any standard ROM hack and it might be "different" from SM64DS. I don't know how else to explain it. Skelux made a video a while back of his "anti-cheat" stuff he did to the game, not sure if that has anything to do with it
although i ended up accidentally changing my nand with no way of going back bc i didn't know you needed a gamecube controller to restore it (i have a wii minus/1.1, which doesn't have gamecube controller support)
and if i find the sd card i have my NAND backed up on, i can not only restore the NAND if i solder the right part in, but i can also put my NAND on dolphin, then i can play dolphin online, like PMEX Remix or MKWii Riibalanced