I'm just putting the new versions in the first post. It's easier to find.
Launcher v1.1
Changes:
- Cdvd initialization fix is now automatic and should work fine on all consoles (tested on few PAL consoles and one NTSC console).
- Fixed issue with multilanguage games, where english was chosen instead of the one configured in ps2browser setup. Tested it on few PAL consoles and one ntsc.
- Fixed some minor launching issues.
Launcher V1.1a
Changes:
- All autodetected values are now passed to the cdvd as they should.
As for the other problems. I can't reproduce them here, which makes it quite hard to fix.
Just replace your current runme elf. Remember about the file paths (in this order):
mass0:/BOOT/BOOT.ELF
mc0:/BOOT/BOOT.ELF
mc1:/BOOT/BOOT.ELF
mc0:/B?DATA-SYSTEM/BOOT.ELF
mc1:/B?DATA-SYSTEM/BOOT.ELF
(where "?" is regional code: A, E, I )
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The main topic is growing really fast and sometimes it's quite hard to get all the info that one needs. This is why I created this thread.
I will quote part of the text from the other thread:
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As for the cdvd initialization fix... I've been testing it on v12, v9, v10, v7, v4 and v3. It worked fine on all of these. All consoles were PAL (all with the scph-xxxx4 numbers), either unmodded or chip disabled.
The init code is a little bit different on my v4 than on my v10 (was making bigger tests just on these two)... but the one made from v10 worked fine on others. I'll try to research it further then and check for possible incompatibilities (I even have a candidate that could cause the fix to not work).
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But now I really have to nail the real issues.
If you could specify what console models (region, bios version and mobo ver appreciated - take a note, that even not all PAL consoles with the same version/mobo are identical! But the hardware itself should be pretty the same.)
current initialization code DOESN'T WORK. And I mean only cdvd related problems!
As for the NTSC v9 problem. I currently do not have any NTSC console. But I may be able to do some reversing if you'll send me your complete bios dump (including nvram, but you can erase your consoleId/ilinkId numbers if you don't trust me). But not yet and not here. First I would like to get some incompatibility reports.
Some other problems, like hdl not launching, sms freezing, usbadvance freezing are related to this one, so do report.
New launcher should follow (tomorrow I think, today we have holidays here
), solving the issues with CB for some people as well as some games in hdloader. I also think I could easily solve the problem of chosing english language in multilangual games... even though other language is chosen in configuration (the same is done by some modchips). But I need a list of multilangual games that have this problem (I have quite a lot of games, and simply don't remember which might be multilangual, since not many come in polish language here, and even if... they're usually standalone versions not multilang... so they always choose english language as default).
I hope some easy fix can be found to these problems (though, the cdvd fix isn't as easy as it might look).
PS. One person wrote, that it doesn't detect DVD inserted on boot and he had to open the tray and close it again to make it recognized. My question for you is. Pull out your MC with McBOOT, go to the browser, put your dvd and measure how much time it takes to recognize the DVD completly (until the disc shows in browser). I've noticed this behavior on one of my consoles, when I changed khs400b to khs400c and didn't reprogramm the lens calibration data. On DVD-ROM and DVD+R (with chip enabled) it was trying two times to recognize the DVD which gave similar results if it was inserted at boot, while on DVD-R it worked fine (chip enabled). Using lens changer to reprogram lens calibration data has cured the problem on that console (I can't freeze the init procedure untill the disc is recognized... because it would freeze everything if there is no cd/dvd in drive).
Just point me in the direction and I'll do it.
