VMC for HDD games

[KaylaKaze]

I don't know if this is known or not, but I've discovered that if I load a game from the HDD, OPL sets the slot 1 VMC to both slots (I have it set for Slot 1: VMC Slot 2: MC). This doesn't happen with ETH game loading.

[juggalomars]

Yeah I noticed this last night. Thankfully my other memory card didn't get corrupted.

[usrmd]

Hmm.. it corrupts the data by doing that? I wonder if that's why my MC saves became corrupted while I was testing some games the other night also. I don't remember the order I was doing things when it happened.
Though, I do play games from ETH and HDD, but only a couple on HDD. I have those set as Slot 1 MC Slot 2 VMC. I switch back and forth between HDD and ETH without any corruption, and it does not automatically change the VMC settings when I go from ETH to HDD.

[juggalomars]

It's a known issue that having a memory card in the same slot that OPL is using as VMC has a chance to corrupt the physical card. Before development staled a bit I was hoping the smart people would add a check in the loader to warn you to remove the memory card first but afaik doctorxyz is one of the only people even working on OPL anymore.

[RandQalan]

Ok have to say something about that people do not get the wrong idea it will only corrupt you MC with a select few games and the games will not save properly to VMC as well is what causes the problem and BTW it was reported a while ago

http://psx-scene.com/forums/f150/ope...tml#post969107 (Open PS2 Loader - Bug reports)

BTW if VMC slot 2 it will not show on VMC slot 1

[juggalomars]

I was unaware it was only with certain games, my bad.

[Mr Edge]

It's paranoia about this sort of thing that causes me to use a separate VMC for every game and only use a PMC when absolutely required. That and the limited number of write cycles inherent in non-volatile storage media...

afaik doctorxyz is one of the only people even working on OPL anymore.

That's a shame. Maybe I'd better implement Plan B...