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Spencer80

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19. May 2005 @ 01:14

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QUICK SUMMARY OF THIS THREAD AND THE OFFICIAL GT4 THREAD
(To stop u having to trawl through this and the official thread for the answers).

1)CAN GT4 BE COPIED ONTO A DVD9?

YES! DO THE FOLLOWING:

1) get DVD Decrypter, get toxics patch
2) make an iso of the game using DVD Decrypter (iso -> read mode)
3) patch the iso with toxics patcher
(4) change the book type to dvd-rom. this may not be necessary as people have reported success with the book type set to DVD+R DL, but to do it, right click on your dvd writer in DVD Decrypter and select 'Change Book Type', click the tab for the manufacturer of your writer, under 'Change For' select 'For DVD+R DL media' and under 'New Setting' select 'DVD-ROM' then click ok)
5) burn the image to disk (iso -> write mode)

that's it! (wasn't so hard now was it?)

2)WHERE DO I GET TOXICS PATCH?

http://www.ps2hd.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1407

YOU WILL HAVE TO SET UP AN ACCOUNT TO ACCESS IT BUT ITS TOTALLY FREE!

3)ANY HINTS AND TIPS ON COPYING GT4?

YES! HERE YOU GO:

Media doesn't seem to be too important. Success has been reported with a variety of all media, including anything with the Ritek dye, Datasafe, Traxdata, Verbatim etc. The prefered media seems to be Traxdata or Verbatim though.
Updating the firmware of your dvd writer might help. there's a function in DVD Decrypter that finds up to date firmware for you, or visit the manufacturers website.
Make sure the iso DVD Decrypter creates is around 5gb in size. if its around 3gb, it didn't copy both layers. by default settings and with an original game, you shouldn't have this problem.
It should be obvious, but some people have asked anyway, that you need to patch the iso file, NOT the mds file that decrypter makes (well duh, as the patcher won't successfully patch the mds anyway)
Make sure the patcher says patching is successful, and make sure the iso files last modified date is the minute you applied the patch (just in case its read only or something)
Selecting the mds or iso file to burn doesn't make a difference, except decrypter shouts at you if you select the iso, and then selects the mds for you (its just picky :P)
Burn at a slow speed (2.4x worked fine for me, you might want to do 1x to be on the safe side), and maybe do a test burn first.
This works for ALL versions of the game, the patch is applied to only one file, which is the same regardless of what version of the game you have.
At present it appears a DL copy does NOT work on Swap Magic disks, most likely due to the large TOC. If someone has an original game with a larger TOC that GT4, try it. Logically it should work, but then again who knows...
This should work with ALL modchips. It has been reported to work with chips that do not even officially state they support dual layer media (and i can vouch for this - it works on my Magic 3.1, and if it works with that it will work with anything!)
If it doesn't work, try recalibrating your laser (that's what my PS2 required). If your PS2 clicks or whirrs when first trying to read the disk, this may be your problem as it was mine.

4)WILL THE DVD9 VERSION WORK ON SWAP MAGIC?
NO. IM AFRAID SWAP MAGIC CANNOT READ DUAL LAYER DVDS!

5)BUGGER! OK IS THERE A WAY TO GET IT ON A DVD5 THEN?
ERR....NOT REALLY. AT THE MOMENT THERE APPEARS TO BE NO WAY OF GETTING IT ON A DVD5. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME CLOSE ATTEMPTS WHICH YOU MAY WANT TO TRY OR EXPAND ON:

Alright peeps, for whatever reason I've made a success backed up with DVD Decrypter using a FUJI DVD+R 4.7GB (Manufacture ID: YUDEN000 T02, MADE IN JAPAN) by following the above steps, except I "didn't" do step #4 only. Yes...it's TRUE and I am "NOT" bullshiting anyone period. I was playing it for like 1 hr, still "NO FREEZE" yet. I'll keep my fingers cross for now. Anyways, my first backed up with the VERBATIM 2.4 DVD+R DL was successfully completed by following the above instructions. However, my SWAP MAGIC 3.6 PLUS won't boot it because it's a DL media. Therefore, I come up with this crazy method to just back it up on a DVD5 just to try and see what's the result. After DVD Decrypter "READ", it went to my c:\GranTourismo4.ISO - I then put my Fuji DVD+R in my Sony 710a BYX4 and click "WRITE" in DVD Decrypter, it pop up a window saying "there is not enough space, do you want to continue/write?", I just click "YES" and it did it. However, I noticed it only went up to 95% or something of writing and then Decrypter just finalized the disc, instead of going all the way to 100%. I thought it was a "coaster" at first, but decided to give my SWAP MAGIC 3.6 PLUS a shot, and boy......was I surprised, it boot up right away. Thank GOD....!!!!

MANY PEOPLE HAVE TRIED THE ABOVE AND SAID IT DOESNT WORK.

I dont know if this means much but I was a little inspired by this dvd5 thing.. I had three files in my gt4 backup folder: .mds, I00, I01. the mds was 9kb the .I00 file was 4.2g and the I01 file was 1.3g. I have already backed up my gt4 on verbatim dvd+r dl and all works perfectly.

I decided to rename the I00 file as this was obviously the biggest and I thought the guts of the game to ".MDS" I then opened decrypter and used the renamed I00 file (now .MDS) as the source file. Now remember my original backup has already been patched (I patched the .mds when I burnt the dvd+r dl so I tried to patch the new .mds and it said failed (thus meaning it's already patched). I then burnt the new .mds on a dvd 5 at 1X .

Now heres the interesting part I put it in the PS2 and it booted right up to the accessing the memory card (disc in corner icon) and hung (forever, no disc noise I knew this was going to happen) I thought well it's screwed, but I then thought hell might put the dvd+r dl back in (backup). It started as normal with the opening movie right up to the game access screen (all the races, home, buy cars) i then put the dvd5 back in and have been playing ever since on the dvd5. I know that I have to use the dvd9 to boot but I can play the dvd5 no worries with medium (quite bearable) loading times and I have so far had no problems with playing any of the races I have accessed. I know some might think it foolish to be swapping discs (once only) but I dont intend to play it like this, but what is interesting is it will play from the dvd5. I am using an imation dvd-r 4.7g disc (it's all I have left.) So my next questions is whats missing, what stops it loading when all the info is there (well nearly all of it). When it's loading it starts just like the dvd9 (toxic logo and all) but it hangs at the memory card load (it does actually load the memory card info). I cant remember if this was covered in the original thread "Official gt4" but I can play the dvd5 without swapping. I have not have to put the dvd9 back in yet!!! I have only played about three races (all the nissan gtr cups are nearly mine) on the dvd5 plus I raced a couple of beginner races to test it out but no lock ups yet.. Does this mean (maybe) if you have the original game and you back it up, then patch it with the toxic patch and burn it on the dvd5 that you will only ever have to use your original as a boot disc??? Some might say "silly" but what if you dont have a dual layer burner, this could be a solution. Could it work with swap magic!!!

Some body kill me if this has been covered and sorry for the waste of space if so.

HOPE THATS HELPED AND SAVED YOU A HELL OF A LOT OF TIME!


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