for some reason I must have told multiman to overwrite the eboot and that is what messed it up.
I manually resigned the eboot and changed the sfo, then created a pkg.
Installed nuketown, installed my pkg (both in Normal Mode), started the game via select + X in multiman (picked no for the game fix option), started the game via xmb.
Game worked I played for a round to see if it would freeze or any other area of problems, no problems.
Switched to Retail Mode, started the game in multiman by pressing X only,
started the game in the xmb and it works.