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27. January 2012 @ 09:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi all! I've spent the past 2 hours searching online and reading threads but I'm still none the wiser. I hope you guys can help me out. Here's the situation:

I want to make a back-up of my FFIX game (original NTSC-U), apply a translation patch (my mom's English isn't that great haha), and play it on my slim PS2 (SCPH-70000, has Magic Keys). I've played several NTSC-J games using the swap trick and never had any issues, but the backups I've made don't work for some reason. All I get is the PS1 splash screen *without* the PS1 logo and *without* the SCEA text, and it just stays that way forever.

I ripped the image file with Alohol 52% as an ISO file (speed 4x, also tried 2x), applied the patch with PPF-O-Matic (filename: Slus_012.51), then burned the disc with CloneCD (speed 4x, also tried 1x). My discs are Verbatim CD-Rs (80mins).

1. Do I need to apply any other patches to make the game work? I read something about copy protection in FFIX, and "outer rim checks" or "media checks"?

2. Does the patch have to have the .ppf extension? The one I downloaded is supposed to work for both ePSXe and physical consoles with the NTSC game and the writer says to use PPF-O-Matic, but the patch file ends in .51 (???). I've tried applying it as-is (by selecting "all files" when searching for it) as well as by simply adding .ppf to the end. The patching was apparently successful in both cases (???) and only took 2 seconds (???).

3. Do I need to use other settings/programs to extract/burn the disc image? I've read that 4x is too low for CDs and PSX games and 8x should be used?

4. The Disc 1 image file is 706MB, but the CDs are only 702MB. I selected "attempt to overwrite" on one attempt and didn't on the other, but no success. Anything I'm doing wrong here?

I hope you guys can help! Thanks for reading if you made it this far!

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 27. January 2012 @ 09:45

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