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Greyfeld
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29. October 2009 @ 20:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm trying to run Growlanser Generations. I know it's a cd game because the files are in BIN/CUE. I burned the BIN onto a dvd, and I'm trying to load it on my PS2 using my Swap Magic 3.8/coder cd disc. When i tried Normal Boot, the screen was black for a while, then went back to the bios, then almost immediately went to the red screen with "Please insert a PS2 disc" or whatever it says. I tried the Special Boot, and it goes straight to black screen and does nothing else.

So, is my cd disc busted, or is there something I did wrong when I burned the game, or is there just something else I'm missing? (oh btw, I tried it with two different dvd discs, and got the same results)

For the record, I tried with my DVD swap magic disc (since i thought hey, maybe since i'm using a dvd, that'll work), and I got a msg saying that the disc isn't a PS2 disc, or something like that.
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31. October 2009 @ 23:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You need to burn that bin/cue file to a CD-R, it won't work burning it on a DVD-R disc.

The only way to get it too work on a DVD-R disc is convert CD>DVD

Follow this tutorial

http://johnnys-epitaph.com/ps2cd2dvd.html

Or another method started for the use of ESR, but will work also is this:
http://psx-scene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58489

now this doesn't always work for every CD game. There are a few CD games that require a little more work than that, like changing values using a Hex editor, then rearranging files on the disc.

A couple games I know like that for example are Winback: Covert operations and Harvest Moon: Save The Homeland.
There are a few others also.




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