I suggest you should not create a separate scene for pause layer. What you can do is, create a layer similar to HUD Layer . Second option would be going for something like this .
Just don't set the background color of the layer. Hope that helps.
I know you already have an answer, but wanted to share my solution because I hit this link when researching the same issue. I also posted this in the cocos2d forums.
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