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hello every1, have a little question, is it possible to burn an UDF CD and not a DVD.
an UDF CD to play in ESR ? ?
when you have option to chose to make a cd into UDF CD, and then its possible to patch in ESR, will it work in ESR ? i have tryed to burn a psx1 game in esr, it didnt.
You can't play burnt CD with ESR. ESR actually makes the console believe it's reading a video DVD, so it won't work with CD. However, there's a tutorial in this forum that explains how to convert a CD game into a DVD one.
As for PSX game, the only solutions at the moment are a modchip, or a swap (with uLaunchELF/PSXloader if you have a V9+ PS2, or with a retail Breaker Pro otherwise). In a more or near future, we will have PS2PSXe, a PSX emulator for PS2 that will allow to play PSX games from about every media available including burnt DVD, internal/external HDD, or network (correct me if I'm wrong).
okay sounds very nice with that psx emulator, that idea i had it for long, but im not a coder.
So if i burn a psx game in a dvd disk to use in esr wont that help?
my ps2 dont play burned disc at all, even if a dvd video.. but esr dvds works well.
so all my apps have to be burned on a dvd.
thx for ur reply
If PS2 was a Video-CD player maybe FMCB would have worked with CD games , but it's not :)
Looking forward to FMCB Bluray Edition :D
Having the basic idea that something 'should' be done is one thing, but actually going ahead and implementing it in real code, like ffgriever did, that is another thing entirely. The present beta of that emulator does work for nearly all games, though it is a bit slow and lacks all sound.Quote:
Originally Posted by xtc-king
I just hope that ffgriever gets the time to put in some more work on it, so as to produce a proper release version of PS2PSXe.
No. Regardless of the storage method, there is no way to access a DVD disc with the console in PS1 mode, since the PS1 driver of the bios does not include any DVD drivers.Quote:
So if i burn a psx game in a dvd disk to use in esr wont that help?
And all drivers loaded while in PS2 mode (such as the ESR driver) will die at the switchover to PS1 mode, since the IOP RAM where those drivers were stored will then be used to load and run PS1 programs.
There is something fishy about that failure to use real DVD-Video discs, since the mechacon (the CDVD controller) only allows ESR discs to work because it believes them to be DVD-Video movies and handles the DVD access exactly as for such movies. So real DVD-Video movies should work the same way, when using the same media quality.Quote:
my ps2 dont play burned disc at all, even if a dvd video.. but esr dvds works well.
so all my apps have to be burned on a dvd.
Possibly the DVD-Video discs you are using have low quality (happens even with retail discs), in which case it might work better to use DVD-Decrypter to make an ISO that you then reburn using ImgBurn to the same media type you successfully use for ESR games.
That should make the movie just as readable to the PS2 laser as your ESR games are.
I think you meant ESR here, not FMCB. In fact the mechacon does permit burned CD-Audio discs to be used, so it would theoretically be possible to implement some method similar to ESR for CD discs as well. EEUG has already written a program to prepare a CD disc for such usage, so that media files (AVI movies etc) may be stored using CD-Audio track format. And such a burned CD can then be played in SMS without any problems even on an unmodded console, since the mechacon considers it to be a CD-Audio disc.Quote:
Originally Posted by flo
But using this for game loading would not be a good idea, since CD-Audio format (unlike DVD-Video) has no ECC fields for error checking and correction, so there would most likely be bugs galore, with no chance to detect and correct them...
So such a format is only suitable for data files where errors only have transient effect (as in some small graphical glitch during playback), but never for executable files where even a minor bit error can cause fatal bugs for the entire session.
FMCB itself is not in any way related to any disc media, as it is only a way to boot the console from memory card by using a file similar to those used by Sony for bootable extensions of the Browser and DVD-Player programs of the PS2 bios. And since Sony are now aware of such usage (primarily by Memento) and have removed all such bootable features from current bios, it is not likely that they will ever add similar features to new consoles. So any console with blu-ray capability will most likely not be able to use a boot method similar to FMCB, though that remains to be seen.Quote:
Looking forward to FMCB Bluray Edition :D
But most likely you really meant ESR again, and here the issue is different. Assuming that a console with blu-ray capability permits the playing of burned discs, then it is also possible that a driver similar to that of ESR may be used to allow the use of non-movie material on such a disc, including blu-ray based games.
But according to ffgriever he does not want to repeat such work again, so it still would not be ESR.
Best regards: dlanor