Hi everyone,
I am desperate to play a backup of one my favorite games that is very rare and I can't find it anywhere. =[
I have a PS2 slim (75001) and ARMAX 3.30 which includes Max Media Player. So I put cogswap.elf on a pendrive, load up the media player and cogswap successfully loads. I burned a Maxell DVD-R with Imgburn (1x speed) of the .iso and placed a higher TOC game (I have RE: Outbreak, Sonic Mega Collection Plus, Devil May Cry 1 and 2) and swaped it by blocking the slim sensors. I press X and the DVD-R spins and spins and nothing happens.
I'm going to try with different media and a different .iso and a different program... can somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Okay, I just tried using cdloader.elf from a pendrive by booting it from Max Media Player. Everything went smooth, I swapped the discs, but it said "Error when reading the disc" when I pressed X with my DVD-R inside.
My lens is clean and reads dvds fine, so the lens isn't the problem.
My method of swapping discs isn't the problem.
I think it might be because I'm booting cogswap/cdloader from a pendrive rather than a cd, or I somehow burned the disc wrong... please help, anyone have any ideas?
-boot up Cogswap
-place a PS2 disc in the tray
-wait til it displays the disc type
-press O button for CD or X button for DVD -wait til it says "cogswap"
-then use a slide card (fat ps2) or sensor mod (Slim ps2) to swap out the game disc for your backup disc.
-press X to play the disc
The only thing I ever noticed though with using Cogswap is not all PS2 discs worked.
I have had good luck using GTA San Andreas as my swap disc.
Thanks a lot for replying!
I decided to burn another .iso, but this time with Alcohol 120% The .iso is Silent Hill 2 (I bought it in stores years ago, but it got a big scratch and would not play). My D:\ says "Silent_2_Greatest_Hits" and that it has a filesize of 3.61GB. I used a few high TOC discs (RE: Outbreak, Devil May Cry, Sonic, Killzone, FFX which have 4.37GB I think), swapped it, and the same thing happened. When I put my Maxell DVD-R in and press X at "Use Cogswap", no matter how long I wait, nothing happens.
So I'm thinking if my PC can read it but the PS2 can't, is it because the PS2 doesn't like Maxell DVD-Rs? Should I try Verbatim, burn everything again, and see if it works? Please help...
1) Use a different disc. Maxell DVDs are notorious for not being great DVDs. The PS2 laser is very picky as to what it can and cannot read. Many people suggest in getting Tao Yuden DVD?s but those are sometimes pricey. You can get by with better brands like Verbatim, Sony, and TDK to name a few."
I installed FMCB 1.8 and applied the patch to the .iso and burned it. When I ran ESR, it said "Unknown media in drive" and when I pressed "Run CDVD" it went to a black screen... (figures...)
So now I'm 99.9% sure that the reason that my backup games wouldn't work in cogswap, CDloader, and ESR is because Maxell DVD-Rs plain fail on the PS2. The reason I got Maxell was because my convenience store didn't have any Verbatim/Sony. =/
I'll be buying some Verbatim and Sony DVD-Rs in the future to try ESR again. Anyway, thanks for guiding me in the right direction! (I would have probably given up on PS2 backups!)
