game problems

[JM3000]

I have problems with 2 games.
Gitaroo Man and Kingdom Hearts II FInal Mix[English Patched]
I play them with SMB.

Gitaroo Man:Black Screen,doesn't load at all [And for some reason it changes the size later to 6.00 GB on USBUtil 2.0 version]
Kingdom Herts II Final Mix[English Patched]:Frezzes at Beast Castle[It changes too the size to 6.00 GB on USbUtil 2.0 version]

[dlanor]

I have problems with 2 games.
Gitaroo Man and Kingdom Hearts II FInal Mix[English Patched]
I play them with SMB.

Gitaroo Man:Black Screen,doesn't load at all [And for some reason it changes the size later to 6.00 GB on USBUtil 2.0 version]
Kingdom Herts II Final Mix[English Patched]:Frezzes at Beast Castle[It changes too the size to 6.00 GB on USbUtil 2.0 version]

If the size of an installed game changes some time after its installation, then that drive content has been corrupted.
There is no other explanation.

As to WHY it has been corrupted, I have no idea. I've never seen anything like this myself.

On a different note:

Why would you use USBUtil to install games for use via SMB ?

I assume you are then storing the games on a real HDD of your PC, and then you can use NTFS filesystem which doesn't have the filesize limitation that makes USBUtil installs necessary for a USB drive using FAT32. So on an NTFS drive the normal thing is to just rip each game into an ISO file, and use that just as-is, with no special installation beyond storing it in the PS2SMB\DVD\ folder, properly renamed for OPL access. That's how I use all my games over SMB.

Best regards: dlanor

[JM3000]

If the size of an installed game changes some time after its installation, then that drive content has been corrupted.
There is no other explanation.

As to WHY it has been corrupted, I have no idea. I've never seen anything like this myself.

On a different note:

Why would you use USBUtil to install games for use via SMB ?

I assume you are then storing the games on a real HDD of your PC, and then you can use NTFS filesystem which doesn't have the filesize limitation that makes USBUtil installs necessary for a USB drive using FAT32. So on an NTFS drive the normal thing is to just rip each game into an ISO file, and use that just as-is, with no special installation beyond storing it in the PS2SMB\DVD\ folder, properly renamed for OPL access. That's how I use all my games over SMB.

Best regards: dlanor

Thanks for the ISO file tip.

Still i cant play the games.
I just wanted to play Gitaroo Man >.>

[l_oliveira]

You have better chances of it working through SMB (network share) than through USB.

Both games work great with the internal harddrive.