Burn Slide Card

[Blackiris]

Heya everyone,

I own a Slide Card and have Free McBoot installed on my Memory Card as well (thanks a bunch for that!), but my Slide Card hasn't been working properly lately.
Normally, this would be no problem, considering that I have free McBoot to start my games.

I have bought the Slide Card to run NTSC games on my PAL PS2, actually. Creating an image file from my NTSC games and burning them to a new disc to run them with Free McBoot does work fine. Patching the game from NTSC to PAL does not always work, however.

So far, I have burned three games: Tales of the Abyss (NTSC), Tales of Legendia (NTSC) and Persona 4 (NTSC-J). It's been more than a year since I've burned Tales of the Abyss, so I can't remember everything exactly. But I think I just used the ESR Disc Patcher and then everything worked (in color and so on).

This does not seem to work for Tales of Legendia and Persona 4. I have tried the ESR Disc Patcher as well as a program called "PS2 PAL TO NTSC VIDEO MODE CHANGER WITH Y-FIX Beta Version 1.03" by JayteeMaster, but this did not work out. The video mode remains NTSC.

Every so often, my Slide Card will work and then I am able to change the video mode to PAL manually. But it is very rare that the Slide Card is running, and I can't even create a iso-file from it because my laptop can't read the disc properly.

So, now my question: I wonder if it is possible to burn the Slide Card to a DVD, then run this DVD with Free McBoot, and then use the Slide Card as normal. I have tried this once with a downloaded Slide Card 3.8 iso file (which was only a few MB in size, while the actial Slide Card disc has more than one GB files on it). So, does anyone know whether this is possible or not?

Or, alternatively: Have I made a mistake patching the disc? Is there any kind of program that does always work?


Thanks in advance everyone,
Blackiris

[ShaneCamp]

if you d/led and burned a copy of something like swap magic 3.8 then I'd be thinking that would work for you to play NTSC games on a PAL system when coupled with your FMCB, also if that's what you were talking about was swap magic there's 2 discs you get when you own it one is for CD games the other is for DVD games both on that respective media, perhaps you ended up downloading the CD copy whereas you would be wanting the DVD copy

[Blackiris]

Thanks for the reply!

I tried it again, and this time I downloaded a zip file which included both the DVD and CD version (3.2MB). As I thought, most of the Slide Card iso consists of dummy files, because the isos were about 600MB (CD) and 1.1GB (DVD) in size. The ESR Disc Patcher did not work, however, so when I burned the Swap Magic DVD iso, it didn't work out.

Do you know why the ESR Patcher didn't work? ("No UDF descriptor," was the error message.)

[Pado]

Are using standard composite cables? There shouldn't be a problem with the region and screen if you use component cables to connect your PS2 to the TV... unless you tell me you are using an old-school TV :P.

I remember well that I never had to patch NTSC games to PAL when I was playing on my old PAL v7 PS2.

[Blackiris]

Yeah, my TV is ancient. I think the easiest way to fix the problem is to get a newer one. ^^'