"User manual"

[Pixel]

Whoops, I forgot to tell about how to use it :p

The software will look for the file "bor.pak" on the same location it was booted. For example, if you use ps2link to boot it from host:, it will try to load the bor.pak file at host:bor.pak. It doesn't reset the IOP, so, it should be able to get benefits from any previously loaded irx, and thus, it should maybe load magically from hdd. No idea though...

Now, you can force the boot location by renaming the binary. If it starts with "cd" (like "cd_bor.elf") it will try to load the file cdrom0:\bor.pak, if it starts with "dvd", it will try to load the file cdrom0:\bor.pak, in DVD mode, if it starts with "host", it will try to load the file host:bor.pak, and finally, if it starts with "mc"... duh... forget about it :D

The options should be automatically saved on the memory card. Beware, it doesn't tell when it does... but just don't remove the memory card, the joypads, or switch off the console when it does, that is, when you exit the settings menu, or when you finish off the game.


Apart of that, I don't see anything else to tell... :chinscrat

[Kormann]

Great! :)
But I suggest you to put this thread as a Sticky one.

[rdchaldo3265]

Yesterday I posted a way you can play BOR on the HDLOADER, why is it gone?? :confused: Is it because I can't talk about it or something!! Sorry if I broke a rule!!

[ltdc2004]

id be interested to know how you got it running? also one of my other posts was deleted? is this a communist forum? (joke if you dont realise)

[boule]

id be interested to know how you got it running? also one of my other posts was deleted? is this a communist forum? (joke if you dont realise)

the post hasn't been deleted;it's been moved here (http://www.ps2-scene.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=56)

[ltdc2004]

haha, Flamerz, Lamerz & Spammerz , if asking a question is lame then 99% of ppl on the fourms are lame then

[Naitguolf]

Hail, my first post.

Seems not work to me. I made a cd (i wasted hundreds), i can see the "license" screen, but nothing more. What do you need to do to make it "right"?

Btw, is possible to make a dvd? My play2 seems not like cd-r, it likes dvd-r more...

[Pixel]

Well, how are you building your CD exactly.. ?

[Naitguolf]

i use CDGenPS2. I put a SYSTEM.CNF like you said. BOR.ELF and BOR.PAK.

Then i made an iso. Burned with nero (usign 4x)

And the only thing i get is your first screen. Seems it doesnt load bor.pak.

I tried renaming BOR.ELF to CD_BOR.ELF, but doesnt work either. It always get stuck in the same first screen.

[axle318]

same thing happen to me til i add big dummy file then it work

[Naitguolf]

ahh.... the dummy file.... how dummy file should be called? How big should be? Thanks!!!

[rdchaldo3265]

ltdc2004, can you PM Naitguolf the info I gave you on how to put together the BOR with HDLOADER.

Thanks (To lazy to retype the info :D )

[Pixel]

Just as a side question: did anybody actually try to burn the game on a DVD-R(W), using the prefix trick I mentionned before ? Just beeing curious (and still waiting for gsKit 0.2 :P)

[axle318]

dummy=140mb
bor.pak=117mb

system
cd_bor.elf
bor.pak
dummy file

that s it

[ltdc2004]

Naitguolf check your pm , for instructions how to load from hdloader,
thanks again rdchaldo3265 for the info
i still dont see why we cant post that info all the progs are freeware arnt they?

[EugeneWE3RD]

Naitguolf check your pm , for instructions how to load from hdloader,
thanks again rdchaldo3265 for the info
i still dont see why we cant post that info all the progs are freeware arnt they?

Hdloader isn't freeware. Hdloader is warez software & this is the reason why you can't post the info or downloads/links to Hdloader.

[Naitguolf]

But is hdadvance ilegal itself? We cannot discuss about it?

[<G>]

any more reference to HDloader or HDAdvance with any hombrew app for that matter will be banned. end of discussion! :mad:

[stayhye]

hey guys! how do i get it to boot from the ps2menu? i have bor.elf and bor.pak in a partition, but all i get is the first splash screen. plz help

[Stefy2]

i finished the game but after reset the bonus mode is gone :( it wasn't supposed to save?

[pava]

i finished the game but after reset the bonus mode is gone :( it wasn't supposed to save?
no.sorry :(

[Pixel]

Errr...

It IS supposed to save...

Well, I'll have a look at that later on. But I swear it should save that.

[Pixel]

Indeed, the code that was supposed to save after the end of the game is commented out. Sorry... my bad.

Well, as a workaround: when the game is finished, go back to the main menu, enter the option menu, and exit it. It should save the variables, including that setting

By the way, as a side effect, the current code can't differentiate that you finished the game with a .pak or another. That means that if you play another .pak file, with the settings saved saying "game finished once", the special parts will be unlocked too.

[Kormann]

Pixel.. you really did a great job with this port..
Everything worked well here, the only bugs that I know is related to gfx and you already know it. I know you said you would make a Loader for BOR paks.. but can it be done in-game? I mean an option called Mods in the main select screen (where Play and Options are)
I'm just waiting for gskit0.2 so you can continue this masterpiece of Beats of Rage port :D

Hey Naitguolf.. Are you from BomberLinkGames (http://users.servicios.retecal.es/rubenfg/sorr_english.htm) Staff? If yes I'm waiting for the next version of your SoR Remake.. it will rock, But I would really like to see a port of it on my ps2 too.. I know its difficult but can your team try to port it? (Ohh imagine playing this game with a multitap with your friends in front of your TV :D). Oh and I would like too if we could select between the japanese colors from SoR and the US ones (I mean the red dress from Blaze(jap) been selectable as well the white dress Blaze(us) that you are using as default)

[]'s
Kormann

[Pixel]

Well... This will rather be done even before. That is, just after the splash screen. I am willing to support BMPs (a screenshot for the pak file) and font (to display the title) using gskit 0.2.

[Kormann]

Well... This will rather be done even before. That is, just after the splash screen. I am willing to support BMPs (a screenshot for the pak file) and font (to display the title) using gskit 0.2.
Hummm.. Its a good idea, but think with me.. if we can select mods as a main menu options too we could play other mods without having to reset the ps2.. Or if its not possible it would be interesting to make a way to return to your Mod Selection Screen (that appeared in the begging.. almost like a software reset).
Waiting your opinion :)

[]'s
Kormann

[Pixel]

Well, you have to understand that the PAK files starts right after the splash screen. Okay, the menu disposition and stuff is rigid and hardcoded, and I already add some ps2 patches to it (like screen position or memory card save), but I don't want to do a 'radical' code change. I might add a "quit" button though in the menu, yeah, in order to go back to the main menu. However, I am 99.9% the original senile's engine has memory leaks; that is, if I "quit" back to the main "pak selection" menu, I think it wouldn't free all the memory.

Well, when I am typing this, I am thinking I can maybe do some "workaround", or a "software reset" as you say. That's something to try.

[Kormann]

Cool, I hope you will figure out a way to "software reset" it :)
Maybe it could reset when pressing START+SELECT for 2 secs or something like that :)

[]'s
Kormann

[pava]

hey guys! how do i get it to boot from the ps2menu? i have bor.elf and bor.pak in a partition, but all i get is the first splash screen. plz help
Damn...i have this problem too...i used to load bor.elf and the paks from hdd with ps2menu and everything was fine...until i formatted mi hard disk and now using the same programs i can't get it to work...
it's so strange :(

Saludos

[SephirothTNH]

If I renamed my bor.elf to something else would it still work? Would it still work with the cd tag? Examble: cd_hff.elf. I wanted to try to play some mods but only burn one cd for multiple mods. So I would have hff.elf which loads hff.pak and hf2.elf that loads hf2.pak etc. So I could just brows the cd and launch the helf I wanted to play. Does this sound possible?

Also, I'm fully aware that more than just the name would need to be changed.

Edit: Nevermind I have my answer.

[EugeneWE3RD]

hey guys! how do i get it to boot from the ps2menu? i have bor.elf and bor.pak in a partition, but all i get is the first splash screen. plz help

I have this problem also & I found what causes it. First of all, rename bor.elf to HDD_BOR.ELF & rename BOR.PAK to bor.pak. As it turns out, the prog won't work if bor.pak is capatilized. The game will load up & run perfectly thru PS2MENU only if the file name is bor.pak & not BOR.PAK.

[Kormann]

ya you are right... i had to re-upload bor.pak again with non-capitalized letters to make it work :P

[TUTTIFUSI]

can i know what ps2bor is? and for what can be used? :S

[EugeneWE3RD]

can i know what ps2bor is? and for what can be used? :S

PS2BOR stands for PS2 Beats Of Rage. Beats of Rage is a homebrew streets of rage clone. PS2BOR can be downloaded from http://ps2bor.ps2-scene.org/ , this download only contains the PS2 exectuable (*.elf), you also need the bor.pak data file, to get the bor.pak data file, you have to download the Beats Of Rage game from http://www.segaforums.com/senileteam/bor_game.php .

You can read about what Streets Of Rage is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_Rage .

[sylvio2000]

@ axle318

I tried several times to burn a cd in the way you described, but it ends with only loading the splash screen as already mentioned above. What has to be in the SYSTEM.CNF ? Do you use cdgen? I cant save "BOR.PAK" as "bor.pak" ?
Where is the failure?
Could you please make a detailled explanation how to create a mod-cd of BOR?

This would be very useful for some guys here in the forum.

[rivaldinho]

i still can't run this off the hdd

[lurklurk]

okay so you know how they have crazy remakes like crisis evil and sf v.s. xmen. these are for the pc but are .pak files. is there a way to play them on ps2?

[J-SIN]

i still can't run this off the hdd

I was able to run it off hdd.

What I did was.

Insall bor.elf (NOT hdd_bor.elf) and bor.pak in the folder of name of the game ie X-Men. Then put the files in there. And then boot it off from uLE. And it works just perfect.

Although I have to note that not all bor games works with ps2bor. I am fine with that since the games is basically same concept of game. So I only keep few of my favorites version of bors in hdd. ;)

[marcosdjcm]

Anyone know an alternative download site for the pak file?

This one is down:

http://beatsofrage.techknight.com/

[DKnight]

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a DVD with multiple paks?
Is this project completly dead?

Thanks.

[Junji Hiroma]

There should be a burning ps2bor tutorial.I'm stumped on how to get it working on a CD-R.

[CJ81]

I first followed the how to rip a DC CDI for a BOR pak to play it on PS2, however I've wasted numerous discs that go nowhere past the PS2BOR license screen, as many have had probs with. In CDGenPS2 I put the SYSTEM.CNF, cd_bor.elf, bor.pak, and dummy files in exact order, however it did absolutely nothing, and brought me to the red cloud "insert a Playstation2 compatible disc. I use a slimPS2 with swap magic, what can I do to get the game running?

[NeverGoingBack]

install free mcboot on a memory card, and run the game from a pen drive. for some reason no one ever made .pak select support for ps2bor so you will have to make a seperate folder with elf and pak for each game you want. since bor.elf searches for the game in the same directory 2 paks in one directory = no go!

also make sure your .pak file is name bor.pak regardless of what game it is since bor.elf searches for this.

you should at least reach the bor spalsh screen this a good start and you will no the elf is at least loading. you should be aware that ps2bor does not have the greatest compatibility so not all paks will work. ive notice mostly kungpows paks do not work, to bad too they are some of the best.

but yeah if you have swap magic you should definatly get free mcboot so you can ditch using discs to run your homebrew