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Hey, what's up. I'm new to the forum. Been screwing around with USBExtreme for the past few days. It's a wonderful tool, yes it has compatibility issues (newer games especially), however, I think if there was enough emphasis and work from "the scene" as it's solder-modchip counterparts, we could definitely get alot further along with compatibility ... (just my two cents!)
Anyways, one reason why Call of Duty 2 doesn't load is because of the failed DNAS authentication (DNAS300.IMG is the file it does its check on.) You can take a file from another DVD-ROM that loads successfuly with USBExtreme (such as GTA: San Andreas) and replace the old file (DNAS300.IMG) with the one on your "donor" DVD-ROM game (number after DNAS* and IOPRP* must match!)
(No explanation on using any programs, please check other guides!)
1. Use DVD Decryptor to make image file of Call of Duty 2.
2. Open ISOBuster, extract all the files from the image file you made with DVD Decryptor to a directory (i.e. C:\COD2\)
3. Place GTA: San Andreas in DVD-ROM drive, open up Windows Explorer and navigate to your DVD drive, find the file "IOPRP300.IMG", and copy it to the directory where Call of Duty 2 files you extracted with ISOBuster are located.
4. Find the file, "DNAS300.IMG", in your Call of Duty 2 directory, delete it! Then, rename "IOPRP300.IMG" to "DNAS300.IMG" and copy that file to the same directory that DNAS300.IMG was in.
5. Rebuild the image file using CD/DVD-Gen & IML2ISO.
6. With the new, rebuilt ISO file, mount it on a virtual drive with Alcohol 120%.
7. Load up USBExtreme, select the virtual drive you mounted the new image file on as the Media, and Install the game to your USB hard drive!
8. Play!!
And for those of you wondering on the quality of the games: it really isn't that bad! Call of Duty 2, for example, remains flawlessly seamless in gameplay, the only downside I have seen is a little slower initial game/scene loading, and videos will get choppy once in awhile (NOT gameplaying, just video scenes!) It is way beyond "tolerable", I think it's worth having a game load about 2-3 seconds slower, but saving your laser life-span and originals!
Thanks to Bryce_v_s from ps2hdd.com forums ... wrote a nice guide documenting this for another game. I've been working on getting Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi working -- if I can come across a working Bandai game, I'm sure I might just be able to swap the IOPRP300.IMG files (that game doesn't have any network support), and it should boot up fine ... any help or comments would be greatly appreciated! I hope we can find more ways to figure out how to make more use of USBExtreme. :)
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 10. January 2006 @ 19:17
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