Searching for FF VIII PAL-players with FMCB

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Hi!

My problem: I can't continue the game as one of the FMVs is broken and I can't get any further.

What or who could help me: Anyone with FF VIII, a PAL-PS2, a PSX MC and FMCB.

How?
Download my saves from the posts, extract them, move them to an usb device or hdd, plug it into the PS2, start FMCB and select UlaunchELF. Move the files to the PSX-MC and continue playing - You need to climb the few stairs and continue going into the floor. The FMV should start then, after that, simple save and leave the rest of the game to me :)
There are two savegames, the one with more gaming hours (number showed in red color) is the one you need - I wasn't sure about which savegame is actually the more updated one, but I guess it is that with 99:59 in it's filename, eh?

Thanks for your help in advance!

Crossthread: www.FinalFantasy.de | Forum | Final Fantasy VIII | Treffpunkt "Video-Sequenzen"-Hilfe (German), but I am not sure if someone there will be follow my request (no negative judgement
intended against them)

Region: PAL
Disc: Disc 3
Language (not sure about it, but savegames might work with other languages, too!): German

Why on console? It could be done on emu too.

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Hi!

My problem: I can't continue the game as one of the FMVs is broken and I can't get any further.

What or who could help me: Anyone with FF VIII, a PAL-PS2, a PSX MC and FMCB.

How?
Download my saves from the posts, extract them, move them to an usb device or hdd, plug it into the PS2, start FMCB and select UlaunchELF. Move the files to the PSX-MC and continue playing - You need to climb the few stairs and continue going into the floor. The FMV should start then, after that, simple save and leave the rest of the game to me :)

I've done that, viewing the 'Lunar Tear' FMV and then going straight back to the save point, where I made a new save using the third gamesave entry, so it doesn't conflict with the other two. (Easy to change in uLE, just by editing the last digit of the filename on the PS1 MC (which doesn't have folders, but just files).

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There are two savegames, the one with more gaming hours (number showed in red color) is the one you need - I wasn't sure about which savegame is actually the more updated one, but I guess it is that with 99:59 in it's filename, eh?

Yes, the other one was from Disc 1 (Tomb of the Unknown King).

Btw: In-game you can always see the correct total time even if you play several hundred hours, just by remembering how many times the time display has changed color, since it will do this every time the digits pass 99:59 to start over from 00:00.

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Region: PAL
Disc: Disc 3
Language (not sure about it, but savegames might work with other languages, too!): German

It is not so much the language that is an issue, as the game ID code in the real gamesave filename (not the title shown by Sony Browser). This has to match the ID of Disc 1 of the same release whose discs you are using. (All discs in a release identify the gamesaves using the ID of Disc1.)

So to adapt your German gamesaves from a game with ID SLES-02082 to my UK version of the game with ID SLES-02080, I simply had to change a single digit of the gamesave filename. Thus I changed "BESLESP02082052000" into "BESLESP02080052000".

For a PS1 gamesave on a PS2 MC it is necessary to edit both the names of the folder and of the file inside it identically. Otherwise the Sony code will consider it corrupt. But on PS1 MC you can only have pure files anyway, so it is actually easier to do the renaming there.

And like I hinted above, you can change gamesave positions in the list by editing the final digit of the names similarily. Just make sure you never have any duplicate names...

So if you wish to have only the new gamesave on your card, and have it in the first list position, then you could simply delete the other two gamesaves and change the filename of the one I attached here from "BESLESP02082052002" to "BESLESP02082052000"

Btw2:
I made this gamesave using my fat PS1 and playing the game from my original SLES-22080 disc.

Btw3:
As you might guess from that disc code it is the first digit of the game ID that changes between different discs of such a game release, and that is the standard for European PS2 releases, but never for US or Japanese releases... :crazy:

Best regards: dlanor

Thanks!