I've gotten two of these and both of them have similar glitches.  I can't get to level 2 as the game will always hang somewhere along the way.  I'm assuming this is either a somewhat common problem in the Taxan carts or I'm very unlucky.  I've gotten refund offers, thankfully.

If you can play from level 1 to level 3 without any problems, then your copy should be working.  It shouldn't be too hard to get that far...

Anyway, I want to get a CONFIRMED working copy and I don't even care about the cosmetics.  As long as it works, that'll be dandy.

This is not for the Atlantis Factor one, but the white label one by Taxan.

Are you using the game genie when it glitches. If you are try it without it I used to have that same problem with the Taxan Gi Joe