need help with opl 0.7

[keca91]

I'm new with opl and i have been trying to make tales of the abyss work on an external hdd. While trying different stuff i changed the default starting option for opl to hdd and now it freezes on start and i can't find a way to change it back or reset it, can someone help me?
On a side note can someone tell me why tales of the abyss doesn't worK?

[evilpaul]

I'm pretty sure you need to delete the config file for OPL. Somebody else will need to tell you the filename and path for it. Pressing Start might kick you into the options menu to change it from in OPL.

Is Tales of the Abyss freezing with a Yellow screen? If so, your HDD needs to be defragged. It works via internal HDD I know.

[dlanor]

I'm new with opl and i have been trying to make tales of the abyss work on an external hdd. While trying different stuff i changed the default starting option for opl to hdd and now it freezes on start and i can't find a way to change it back or reset it, can someone help me?

If your homebrew system includes uLaunchELF, then you can use its subprogram "MISC/TextEditor" to load and edit the main configuration file of OPL (it is a normal text file) to change the value of the variable "default_device". (Though it may be a good idea to first practice editing some garbage files, that it won't matter if you damage...)

In the OPL source code the device list modes are defined like this:

#define USB_MODE	0
#define ETH_MODE	1
#define HDD_MODE	2
#define APP_MODE	3

So changing one text line from "default_device=2" to "default_device=0" should change the default list back from HDD to USB.

On a side note can someone tell me why tales of the abyss doesn't worK?

I haven't really played that game myself yet, but I have it installed as an ISO file on my PC, and it loads fine through OPL using LAN, though I haven't done anything in it yet beyond watching some of the intro movies and looked at some menus.

I've also made a very brief test of the same ISO reinstalled to USB in split-file format via USBUtil v2.00, and it loads fine from that USB drive as well, though with more stutters in the intro movies, as expected for USB.

I used the latest OPL beta revision (r501) for testing both from USB and LAN, and I also made one test with the public release of OPL v0.7 (corresponds appx to beta r245), and it too worked fine for the USB install (I didn't test the LAN install with it as v0.7 doesn't take pure ISOs).

If yours doesn't launch at all, the first suspect would be a bad rip, the second some failed install procedure.

Best regards: dlanor

[keca91]

Can you tell me the path and name of the file? I can't find it.

[dlanor]

Can you tell me the path and name of the file? I can't find it.

For OPL v0.7, the file to edit is "mc0:/SYS-CONF/usbld.cfg"
For newer OPL beta revisions and the coming OPL v0.8, the file to edit is "mc0:/OPL/conf_opl.cfg".

For both these cases the file may also be in a similar folder of "mc1:", but "mc0:" is the default location.
And the line to edit is the same for both cases, defining the variable "default_device".


Btw:
About your "Tales of the Abyss" issue, I forgot to mention that the most common cause of failed installation of games to a USB drive is simply that the free space of that drive was already fragmented before the install. That would cause the installed game to become fragmented, which is a fatal error for playing the game through OPL. For such cases you need to defragment the USB drive until no fragmentation of the game files remains.

For USB drives that are nearly full defragmentation can be very time demanding, so for 'smallish' drives it is then often faster to back up their contents to a PC HDD, reformat the USB drive, and then drag the old content back to it again. This has the same effect as a full defrag.

Best regards: dlanor

[keca91]

Thank you very much. I managed to start opl and to boot the game. x)