Sonic Heroes - How do I fix this for swap 3.6?

Out of every title I've backed up, only one REFUSES to be played.

SONIC
DAMN
HEROES.

I bought the game new today and ripped my disc as soon as I got home (to ensure I had a scratch-less rip) and burned it, loaded in SM 3.6, and it gets stuck on the loading screen. I read up an found out what to do to fix it. THIS is where the real problems began.

Okay, so I've been using the guide on afterdawn forums (PS2 Sonic Heroes Swap Magic fix guide - AfterDawn: Forums) to fix the TOC of sonic heroes PS2 by replacing the big-ass dummy.bin in the game with a tiny one, but I've run into a problem with the sony cdvdgen program that is required to fix it.

it won't install.

I'm trying to run the installer in windows 7, but every time I try it tells me it's missing a nonexistent language file (it doesn't actually USE the language config that's included instead, tho, no no no...)

So I can;t even install it.

The size reduction is a long and laborious task alone without dealing with program malfunctions.

So, can I ask here, is there ANY way to either install CDVD gen or use another program in its place?

thanks to all and any who help.

Also, if mods don't like that I've mentioned getting CDVD gen, the only reason i did is because it's the ONLY DOCUMENTED WAY to fix sonic heroes' TOC. Believe me, I looked high and low for an alternative.

Thank you all.

Personuser

I'm gonna try to bump here. Can anybody help me with this? Thank you.

Doesn't require any fix use Zoneloader instead to load your swapped backups, Swap Magic is crap.
Rename the ZoneLoader ELF to match Swap Magic's ELF loading capabilitys and run the ELF, perform the swap and bingo. Place in any original disc that has a TOC higher than that of Sonic Hero's as your swap disc at the Zoneloader screen if the TOC on the Swap Magic disc isn't high enough.
More info here >>>
http://web.archive.org/web/200707020...pmagicfix.com/

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Originally Posted by kevstah2004

Doesn't require any fix use Zoneloader instead to load your swapped backups, Swap Magic is crap.
Rename the ZoneLoader ELF to match Swap Magic's ELF loading capabilitys and run the ELF, perform the swap and bingo. Place in any original disc that has a TOC higher than that of Sonic Hero's as your swap disc at the Zoneloader screen if the TOC on the Swap Magic disc isn't high enough.
More info here >>>
SWAPMAGiCFiX.COM

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Okay, I have mortal kombat deception (big as sonic heroes) and God Of War 2 (MUCH Bigger) and of course my original sonic heroes disc. but can it stop and start the motor like DVDLoader? I have a SPCH-90001, so I can't do a physical TOC swap.

And yes, I've tried DVDLoader. It won't Stop spinning MK Deception after it reads it, so I can't swap in sonic heroes.

Thanks for the help, I'll try this in the meantime.

EDIT: Okay, tried zoneloader, and swapped in the GOW2 disk, but it didn't check the disc for TOC. there was no was to start or stop the motor with the contoller (that I saw) and when I loaded heroes WITHOUT swapping, it got stuck on loading...
I even tried booting my SM, inserting GOW2, hitting up+r1 (SMBOOT2.elf is zoneloader) and when switching programs, it doesn't check the new disc. I'm stuck here for where and how I swap my disc.

Why don't you try to swap with uLE? :)

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Originally Posted by TnA

Why don't you try to swap with uLE? :)

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How do you do that, exactly? I thought that you could only play backup ps1 games by doing cogswap in ule?

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Originally Posted by personuser

How do you do that, exactly? I thought that you could only play backup ps1 games by doing cogswap in ule?

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Pretty much by the same method as for PS1-Backups.
-Disc-Control needs to be on
-I guess you must 'refresh' the disc-content, by entering the filebrowser and disc, after swapping.

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Originally Posted by TnA

Pretty much by the same method as for PS1-Backups.
-Disc-Control needs to be on
-I guess you must 'refresh' the disc-content, by entering the filebrowser and disc, after swapping.

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tried it, black screen.

Do you have any other ideas that might work? I still might have to rebuild the game smaller so are there any programs that I could substitute for sony cdvdgen in the tutorial? thanks.

CDGENPS2 v3.0

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Originally Posted by personuser

tried it, black screen.

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Sure (rhetoric[al] question)? Does your original PS2-Disc/Swap-Disc has a bigger TOC and is of the same 'type' (CD, DVD,...)?

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Do you have any other ideas that might work? I still might have to rebuild the game smaller so are there any programs that I could substitute for sony cdvdgen in the tutorial? thanks.

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CD-Gen is only for CDs thought,...
Hm,... IML2ISO and an IML-Tool?


Btw.: What if you do not 'refresh' the disc, by using the filebrowser?
What happens, if you start 'PS2Disc' after swapping?