Open PS2 Loader Game compatibility

[Bat Rastard]

Hey Bat Rastard did you have mode 7 on for Nocturne before because I did but now that have to set to Callback timer to 50 to prevent lockups

Lucky you - I've been feeling like trash the last 3 days and just sat down to try to force myself through the sidequests of Shadow Hearts 2 before coming here to catch up on the forums. I'm pretty sure I used no modes at all for Nocturne and I compiled r636 yesterday but was too ill to deal with it until today.

Anyhume, let me IGR and boot Nocturne up to confirm ...

Yup, no modes whatsoever - VMC enabled ...

Callback timer = 0 ...

*loading game save*

And Nocturne is condition green so far ...

Too far away to bring up the world map, but I can bring up the menu, the map, run around where I left off - no locks ups or anything.

*{IGR's back to Shadow Hearts 2}*

Hmm ... do I have stomach for Joachim's Man Festival?!? ... :

Oh, and Endictor -- your last post on SOCOM 2 has merit. Have you tried disabling VMC and IGR?!? Those modes require reserving areas in the PS2's RAM, thus any game with anti-cheat may detect them as false positives ...

[RandQalan]

OK bat can confirm what you said on my IHD settings like yours works for me too with load game and new wonder why yoshi314 is getting lockups then
no modes on for me either that is good news for us but like I said

yoshi314 either has something wrong with ELF or ISO or HD or is possible using something with the game like Xploder HD or cheat

[Endictor]

Oh, and Endictor -- your last post on SOCOM 2 has merit. Have you tried disabling VMC and IGR?!? Those modes require reserving areas in the PS2's RAM, thus any game with anti-cheat may detect them as false positives ...

Of course I disabled them

[yoshi314]

OK bat can confirm what you said on my IHD settings like yours works for me too with load game and new wonder why yoshi314 is getting lockups then
no modes on for me either that is good news for us but like I said

yoshi314 either has something wrong with ELF or ISO or HD or is possible using something with the game like Xploder HD or cheat

could be, as i hit some problems undoing the sh2 patch. i'll check out the opl repo again from scratch and see if that helps. i'm not using any cheats, i'll try dumping my disc again if rebuild does not help.

i would not call that a lockup. music was still playing, it seemed that the IOP hanged, though.

edit: well, the md5 comes out the same. it also could be a matter of old config files - i had to delete old ones from MC, could this apply to per-game configs on hdd?

edit2: same problem. on a first chance to open menu with [] from starting a new game, when i try to - black screen. i'll try just try to head to save the game instead, after the frustration wears off (it takes ~20 minutes to get that far from the beginning :/)

edit3: i dragged myself through all that yet again game locks up after saving the game, and when trying to load the game (maybe because save is borked). the vmc file is fine, lockup also happens with vmc disabled. since it's a game image i've literally kept for years on my hdd, i'm rather reluctant to consider it incorrect. but maybe i'll just try reinstalling the game. something is definitely amiss here.

edit4: i've extracted the image off hdd, and checked the md5 against redump.org. image seems valid; investigation continues.

ok, there is some mismatch between builds produced by my craptop and ones made on my regular box. i'm not sure why atm. it still hangs the game though :/

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i reinstalled the game, tested older build of OPL and also with 50 counter delay.

final edit: ok, the vmc image was corrupt. but that doesn't explain why game locked up without vmc, especially in the menus. maybe it was corrupt install and corrupt vmc. it works now anyway -saved to normal mc, made new vmc, copied save over, enabled vmc. things are ok.

[SgtThom]

Hey did anyone find a fix for KH2FM(English patched) for OPL? I can't be bothered to find it right now.

[mgh]

There is already a fix integrated into OPL but that fix doesn't really fix the problem.
In ee_core\scr\patches.c

{ "SLPM_666.75", ALL_MODE, { 0xdeadbee2, 0x00149210, 0x001adf64 }}, // Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix JPN

The original patch have different value but if you replace it with this and compile OPL,it will work fine(I clear the whole KH2FM English(xeeynamo rev 5 patch)with it)

[kakuzawa]

Hello!
I used OpenPs2Loader 0.8 and it worked quite well with most of games... but here are some problems I've encountered: (I use internal HDD with SCPH-50004 model)
Getaway SCES_51159 (PAL, v1) - occasional freezes, crashes and bones animation corruptions (in OPL v9 R630 it was fixed). I completed NTSC version on OPL 0.8 without any hiccups.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance - cannot enter skateboarding mode (fixed in R630 and I think onwards 520 revision)

In revision 630 I noticed some serious flaw though:
with all PAL versions (tested RNB, Part, Pop, 80) of Singstar there are problems with timing (either too fast or too slow). The problems occur on R630 and in older 0.8 are non existing. E.g. Tina Turner - The Best is presented on 80s with NTSC and PAL region and on European version timing is out in Revision 630 and in OPL 0.8 is alright. NTSC version works the same in both revisions. In all of these revision I have not set anything (like MODES, delays etc.).

Cheers and keep up the good work! I hope you'll soon give players the perfect system to play games from HDD and other devices.

[stz]

can open ps2 loader play iso games;

[RandQalan]

Short answer yes over SMB
USB under 4GB

[Bluexmen]

Fatal frame 1 ps2, opl v8 or any latest version. after grabbing the first item on floor the game freezes. Right now i don't have usb hd instead internal hd. I would like to try ESDL, but I will have to wait.