Alright, back again. I know I am not running from a different projects because the deve stuff is on a fresh new harddrive. However, based on what cyberparkstudios said, I decided to make a new temporary project, copy the main and mydata files as well as images folder into this temp project and run the simulator. Lo’ and behold it decides to work. I am going to facedesk for a while, many thanks
Edit: Just in case, the moral of the story here is to make another project with Corona, copy over your files and see if that works