I'm betting your sdcard is corrupted. Your game is not "bricked" though. Bricked refers to an unworkable, unfixable state where the item permanently is no better than a brick.

I made an sd image of GoT that worked for people in similar states in that title. You need a similar image for kiss and maybe a new sd card and you'll be back up and running.

So it sounds like the problems are related to getting the node board updates to propagate.

Here is a theory. The node boards are wired in series and the updates start at the ones closest to the CPU and propagate down to the ones furthest from the CPU. It sounds like the ball trough is furthest down line and people are having problems with it.

If it were me I think I would temporarily hook up the node board that didn't update (the one that's causing issues) into the position at the front of the chain. Power up the game. Give it a few minutes and see if the node board will update. Then attach everything back how it should be and see if that solves it.