map won't load

I've gone through every event on the map, but I have no fade outs or anything that should stop the map loading. But if I set the player starting posistion in the map the screen hgoes black after i choose new game. Then if I set the player position on another map and transfer to this particular map the screen goes black again.

I've copied the map to another map and I'm still having issues! how do I fix this!

Give the map a BGM and play, and see if the BGM plays. If it does, then the map is loading correctly, and you have something blocking visibility - maybe a Show Picture (that's just a fully black picture) or Tint Screen command. Also check if you have any events that turn on switches, and have any common events set to autorun or parallel process that are conditioned by these switches. Scripts could be another cause. You don't have any kind of overlay script that happens to be displaying a fully black overlay?

If the BGM plays, see if you can access the menu. I'm not sure if a screen tint or show picture would stop the menu being displayed (I suspect a screen tint could, but a show picture probably couldn't).

the BMG plays. I have no overlays or screen tints, no pictures. I have loads of switches and events because of a puzzle on the map. Ii've never had this issue with another map! so confused. I'll have to go through all my events now and see what's happening!

EDIT: FIXED!!!

I went through each even, moving each to another map with no events to see which was the problem. it turns out I'd added a loop on a paralle process event and that's what was keeping it from showing the map. So yay for fixed!