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Swap Magic 3.6 - My Backup Suddenly Doesn't Work, and I'm Not a Noob
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Serigei
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29. November 2005 @ 09:37 |
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Just made backups of Sly 2 and 3, and they worked when I tested them, but now they don't. It's not the Swap Magic, it works on my other games, and I know the burn went okay because I successfully tested them and actually played a few levels. When I hit 'x' to start from the Swap Magic, the disk spins up, slows down, then perpetually tries to load. A couple times, the initial white text with the... *cough* er... copyright notices and the whoosh sound will show up, but then it freezes, either during or right after the sound effect. I read something here just a few minutes ago about having to swap a different game to refresh the TOC, but I can't find it now, and have searched these forums for twenty minutes trying to find someone with this problem. Starting a new game worked once, but not anymore. What am I doing wrong?
(Ripped in linux with just a simple 'dd' command and burned in k3b at 2X and verified to be binary equal. Has worked for 20+ of my games.)
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Serigei
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29. November 2005 @ 09:43 |
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Er.. by 'starting a new game' I mean using the Swap Magic to play 'Minna Daisuki Katamari', letting it load a level, and then trying to play the Sly backups. Also, the Swap Magic loads the originals fine.
EDIT: D'oh. Missed the edit button. Oh, well.
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29. November 2005 @ 09:48 |
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www.swapmagicfix.com has a list of games that need to be TOC Refreshed, but neither Sly game is listed there. Have you tried rebuilding the game?
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Serigei
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29. November 2005 @ 09:58 |
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That's what I was thinking, but the games worked fine for a couple loads, and other people have apparently gotten them working no sweat. And this says I don't need to: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/176791
EDIT: IIRC, the bigger image was only 3.3GB, too.
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29. November 2005 @ 10:06 |
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Sometimes people have different problems, like I had to rebuild all of my games for my V7 until I started using Taiyo Yuden discs. Now I don't have to rebuild anything unless the size is greater than 4.37gb.
It wouldn't hurt to try rebuilding them.
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Serigei
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29. November 2005 @ 10:22 |
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Guess not. I'll reboot into Windows after lunch, and see if that works.
1) I've never heard of Taiyo Yuden.
2) I have one of those v12 slim PS2's with the switches, if it makes a difference.
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29. November 2005 @ 10:25 |
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This place usually has some good deals on Taiyo Yuden: www.supermediastore.com
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Serigei
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29. November 2005 @ 13:17 |
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Just rebuilt Sly 3, same thing happens. I somehow got lucky once and it seems that when it 'freezes' its really just loading... *really* slowly, like three minutes to get to the opening movies thing. I'll try ordering some of those Taiyo disks. It may just be the brand, some HP DVD+R's that were on super sale (50 for $8, sweet, and only one coaster out of the ~40 I've used, except for the five I've spent on this problem). Would using some -R's make a difference? I'll buy a couple of different brand/type disks on my way to class this evening and see.
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