Need help with fmcb agent under fire

[Boxdgm]

so im having a problem trying to install fmcb using any of the guides i can find. ive tried replacing driving.elf with apache with a few different uncompressedboot.elf files and everytime i swap and try to load the second mission to load the driving.elf it just loads the mission and i can play thru it completely. I have the greatest hits version of agent under fire slus20265gh. i even tried loading the 3rd mission where you drive the beemer but no luck just boots mission like normal.

Could anyone give a first timer a few tips of whats going wrong?

[GreatOdinsRaven]

Hey, i just did my first FCMB uinstall a few days ago, so i'll write what i did below.

1. Change uncompressedBOOT,elf to DRIVING,elf
   
2. Use apache to open the Agent under fire ISO
   
3. Highlight DRIVING,elf (left click it once)
   
4. Go to ISO Tools -> Change TOC for selected items (this is within apache)
   
   Ok important bit.
   
5. Find the uncompressedBOOT,elf that you changed to DRIVING,elf, and right click-> properties. Find out the file size of it. (mine was 869646 or something). It is the first size not the size on disk.
   
6. Now, on the TOC settings, leave the first two boxes alone (the name and LBA). Change the size to the size of the boot file in Bytes.
   
7. Now click update.
   
8. Tools -> Update selected item
   
9. Now find your uncompressedBOOT,elf that you renamed to DRIVING,elf, then just open it and continue. Once update close apache.
   
10. Now you need to patch you ISO. I Used Memento. Once you have patched it.
    
11. Burn it to a DVD-R disc and voila.
    
12. Run agent under fire, highlight the second mission, do the swap trick for your burned copy and it should load the program.

Any other questions just ask.

[tyons]

does anyone know if it is mandatory to patch the iso with memento or another program? most of the guides I read didn't say anything about it.

[LopoTRI]

does anyone know if it is mandatory to patch the iso with memento or another program? most of the guides I read didn't say anything about it.

They didn´t say anything cause your "unmodded" PS2 can not handle DVD´s with memento patch. When you have installed sucefull FMCB on your MC, then your PS2 can handle it...

[tyons]

so why some people patch the iso for the swap trick with memento and, with it, they are able to successfully install FMCB on an unmodded ps2?

[LopoTRI]

so why some people patch the iso for the swap trick with memento and, with it, they are able to successfully install FMCB on an unmodded ps2?

I don´t know what you read, but the "memento" was made for the "Memor32" MC. A custom firmware for the Memor32-MC comes out from a team, and with patching a game with memento you can play burned games without a mod-chip.
"Memento-patcher" is the old name of the newer "ESR-Disc-patcher", these patcher patches the "*.iso" to a "Video-DVD", so Memor32 or FMCB can play it.
But without one of these 3 (Memor32-custom FW, FMCB, mod-chips) your "unmodded" PS2 cannot handle the patched DVD´s.

[dlanor]

I don´t know what you read, but the "memento" was made for the "Memor32" MC. A custom firmware for the Memor32-MC comes out from a team, and with patching a game with memento you can play burned games without a mod-chip.
"Memento-patcher" is the old name of the newer "ESR-Disc-patcher", these patcher patches the "*.iso" to a "Video-DVD", so Memor32 or FMCB can play it.
But without one of these 3 (Memor32-custom FW, FMCB, mod-chips) your "unmodded" PS2 cannot handle the patched DVD´s.

Most of what you said here is correct, with one exception.

While the Memento patcher does modify an ISO in the same way as ffgriever's patcher for ESR, they are not identical in origin nor in coding.

The Memento patcher was of course produced by the same people who made the Memento firmware for the Memor32 card, as they too needed a tool to make the ISO file modification required for booting a burned disc with that firmware (partly similar to FMCB+ESR, but more limited).

The newest ESR patcher of ffgriever is a completely different piece of software, developed by him and with the ability to either patch or unpatch an ISO (making separate backup copies of unpatched ISOs unnecessary), and with support for choosing the ISO to patch either by file selector (as with the Memento patcher) or by simple Windows drag-and-drop of the ISO file from an explorer directory window.

In short:
Though the patch is identical, the Memento patcher is a primitive commercial tool, while the ESR patcher is a more advanced free homebrew tool.

Best regards: dlanor

[tyons]

ok but I watched a step by step video on youtube in which the guy patched the iso with memento before burning it, saying that it works.
can it be possible? because, now that I think about it, he didn't burn the disc, since he already had one, so maybe he just made a mistake saying it needs to be patched.

[dlanor]

ok but I watched a step by step video on youtube in which the guy patched the iso with memento before burning it, saying that it works.
can it be possible? because, now that I think about it, he didn't burn the disc, since he already had one, so maybe he just made a mistake saying it needs to be patched.

I haven't seen the same video, so I'm not sure what variation of FMCB install he described.

If it was an install based on the disc-swapping between an original game and a modified backup of it, then he did make a mistake, because with this method there is no software present able to recognize the patch and use it to aid in the launch of a homebrew elf file from the modified disk. But it works anyway provided the swap is performed correctly, so that the running software never notices that the disk being read is no longer the original one but the modified backup.

But there is also another method, which doesn't require any swapping, but does require a Memor32 card plus Memento firmware and a boot disc patched by the Memento patcher (or the ESR patcher) to make it bootable by the Memento firmware. (That is just one of several methods based on use of Memor32.)

Possibly he was speaking of such a method, using a Memor32 card rather than a normal PS2 MC.
(The special thing about a Memor32 MC is that it has a USB interface, so some things can be put on it by a PC, independently of any PS2.)

Best regards: dlanor

[tyons]

thanks for the explanation.
that video showed the swap trick method, not the memor32 one.
now I know I don't have to patch the iso. thanks.