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I've had the exploit set up and running fine on my girlfriend's US PS2 for some time, but I just can't seem to get my first-run Japanese PS2 to work properly.
The exploit crashes (stays at the white screen) when launching many different ELFs that I set up as boot.elf. Hell, all I can get working are BootAdvance and Cogswap. Cogswap doesn't display any disc period, and BootAdvance doesn't seem to be reading bootinfo.txt
Hmmm.... thats pretty sticky. Make sure to use a jap disc to trigger the exploit... that may have an effect.
Some stuff I should've added:
I'm using a Japanese PSX game (Beatmania 2nd Mix) with the exploit in the BIDATA-SYSTEM folder, and since it's the only memory card I have, there's also a BADATA-SYSTEM folder with the US exploit set up.
I'm hoping to test it on a different memory card, one that lacks a US exploit. I can't really think of a reason why it would make a difference, as they're completely seperate folders and all, but you never know. I'd test it and remove the US exploit, but I can't hook up my network adapter to the Japanese PS2 for the sake of Execftps.
I have no flip-top case or boot discs or anything; I used a friend's to transfer the US save data initially.
Yes, I would suggest that is the problem. I would acquire another memory card before troublshooting further.
Seperate 'virgin' memory card did absolutely nothing. =/
Has anybody had luck getting bootadvance's menu working, then? I couldn't get it to display programs on my US system, either, so maybe there's a chance.
Ok here's the problem. Japanese machines read the title.db from BIDATA-SYSTEM, and loads the boot.elf from BADATA-SYSTEM
So in reality you should make two exploits - One JUST for the title.db in BIDATA-SYSTEM, and the rest go into BADATA-SYSTEM
Bizarre. Thanks, I'll give it a shot.
Edit: No go. It's definitely launching BIDATA-SYSTEM\BOOT.ELF
(or, in this case, trying to)
The exploit may just plain not work on early model Japanese PS2's.