Gitaroo Man = incompatible with ESR?

Went through three Verbatim DVD's trying to burn Gitaroo Man, each one freezing the moment the first battle starts/after the first tutorial.

In a nutshell:
1) I used Imgburn to rip the game.
2) I patched it using the latest ESR GUI.
3) I set the booktype to DVD-ROM before burning.
4) I burned at a speed of 4X (on, well, 8X marked Verbatim media).
5) Each one successfully verified.

I've also backed up plenty of other games before, so I'm wondering if ESR just doesn't play nice with Gitaroo Man. Any help would be awesome, thanks.

Seconded. With ESR r9b, my Japanese version of the game has similar problems (stages load without sound then hang, retrying freezes the game). This guy here also points out the same problem and says he's seen it posted elsewhere.

According to this ESR compatibility page, it's supposed to work with r9b gui beta, but I tried it and couldn't get it to work (no options enabled = same result, any options enabled = doesn't boot at all).

P.S. ESR r9b does indeed have some sort of fix for Gitaroo Man, but I think that's just for FMVs (if I'm not misunderstanding).

So no fix for this yet? I'm getting the same problem as you guys.

I really don't think dvds have anything to do with it, I have always used memorex from wal-mart for every backup i've ever done on multiple systems. They always work. Haha. I never got into the whole this brand is better cause it has this dye bs. I think dvd-r or dvd+r may show a difference, depending on what version your ps2 is. I'm pretty sure it is an esr problem.

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Originally Posted by zwarren69

I think dvd-r or dvd+r may show a difference, depending on what version your ps2 is. I'm pretty sure it is an esr problem.

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They definetly would. If the Booktype isn´t set (right), it will not work on older models (thought all before V9).
I didn´t tested Gitaroo Man, but I think I´ve already read about this issue with this game in one of the stickied threads, or the Compatibility-List-Thread.

There also was another site which verify if a game is working or not by more than 1 person, before they consider it as "working" or "not working".

I've tried to backup Gitaroo Man (PAL version) but freezes after you select your language. Does anyone know of a patch or the locations so we can hex edit it ourselves?

Oops nevermind, I've found out it's an esr compatibility issue. However, I don't seem to be able to backup Gitaroo Man even before burning it to disc. Loads of websites recommended using a certain program which I'm not mentioning and it only ripped 128MB of the game so I then used imgBurn and that was successful so I patched it and then every single burning program I used failed to burn. How are people getting furthar than this?

Thank you for the feedback. I create an ISO to the hard drive before burning and it wouldn't even dump properly. That's what I mean about the file size being 128MB. It doesn't matter though if there's no fix for it. I'll check again next year lol.

Gitaroo man has been one of the main ps2 games to have compatibility problems with ESR, i'd recommend using OPL or some other way to launch the game maybe.