DVD9 Games and Hdl_dump

[MaverickHL]

I will give this a shot thx b081 for the info

[TheDecline]

anyone get Champions of Norrath NTSC to work yet? I did everything that people do for Xenosaga and it wont boot. I tried all compatiblity modes.

[b081]

http://www.psx-scene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23981
but it is for PAL version.

[dac3]

If you don't know DVD9 is two layer. Layer0 & Layer1.

Here's some infos about Xenosaga & DVD9 games.

Every DVD9 on PS2 is PTP (Parallel Track Path). Every DVD9 needs a "break point" in order to do OTP or PTP. The best results for DVD-Video is OTP over PTP.

I'll talk only about PTP since PS2 uses that one.

PTP means, when rearch the "break point", the laser reader will retract all over to sector 0 again, and start to reading all again, but now on layer 1.

Here are some the infos:

Xenosaga

Region information: not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID: Pressed DVD
Format Type: UDF 1.02
Volume Name
Application id: LAYSTATION
Implementation id: VD-ROM GENERATOR
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy): 12/2/2002 13:26:07
Format Capacity: 7.89GB (8.47GB)
Book Type: DVD-ROM
Media Type: DVD-ROM
Data area starting sector: 30000h
Data area end sector: 3F17FFh
Linear Density: 0.293um/bit
Track Density: 0.74um/track
Number of Layers: 2
Layer Track Path direction: (PTP) Parallel Track Path


MGS2 Substance

Region information: not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID: Pressed DVD
Format Type: UDF 1.02
Volume Name
Application id: LAYSTATION
Implementation id: VD-ROM GENERATOR
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy): 10/24/2002 11:31:17
Format Capacity: 5.99GB (6.44GB)
Book Type: DVD-ROM
Media Type: DVD-ROM
Data area starting sector: 30000h
Data area end sector: 2FF51Fh
Linear Density: 0.293um/bit
Track Density: 0.74um/track
Number of Layers: 2
Layer Track Path direction: (PTP) Parallel Track Path

I hope these infos help the hdl_dump creators.

dac3 (aka Gradius)

[ravenous28]

hmm this is very intresting nontheless. I hope that the whole dvd 9 issue could be solved with all games 100 percent for the future...other then that ...i also hope that someone can figure out how to get the network adapter to work with hdloader and perhaps even dnas...hmm

[MaverickHL]

K, I was able to acquire Apache, but this stupid program requires dll up the wazoo, and when I did get the right ones, I got this ordinal error, it looks like it is asking of external functions. Any clue how you guys with apache resolve this issue?

[NemesisM66]

http://www.psx-scene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23981
but it is for PAL version.

Actually both of those are for the NTSC versions of the game

[MaverickHL]

K status update. After finally getting that stupid Apache ISO ripper to work I was able to finish the other steps and lo and behold it does work and Xenosaga NTSC US is fully playable on mode 2 after the hdl_dump. Thanks for the info. I also recently acquire Xenosaga Ep 2 DVD5 rips and after dumping them to the drive using the same method it runs without any compatibility changes

[Alcahest]

why would you dump Xeno EP2 using the same method (apache, etc...)
Ep2 is NOT even DVD9!
Later,

Alcahest

[MaverickHL]

What I meant about the same method was using the hdl_dumping utility, not the DVD 9 method hehe my bad on that one.