ESR - public beta

[slicer74]

Have u burn using DVD-Ram method ?
Try using a DVD-R

[dlanor]

Originally Posted by -ZeitGeist-

Hello there what a great break throught in the ps2 scene heres my problem and im hoping one of you may help me. Ive got a 30001 Fat PS2 U.S. and The game im trying to load is a backup of my Guitar Hero III. Now heres my problem that i think i know what is wrong but want to make sure. I burned my Guitar Hero 3 Iso to a DVD+R and ran the esr beta from my mass i used the Direct off since that one seems to be getting the closest to loading it. but when i load it it goes through all the colors then just stops at a black screen. I think its because my DVDs wont work with my phat ps2 so should i buy DVD-R's? or am i doing something wrong with the beta

With DVD+R you should make sure that your burning program uses the correct 'Booktype' setting for DVDROM. But I'm not sure that this is the problem you're having. I think it would freeze earlier in such a case, not going through 'all the colors' as you say.

Another possible cause of problems is of course the media quality, as these consoles are rather sensitive about that. No-name brands are mostly useless, and cheap deals may turn expensive in the end. (Half price is no good if it takes 4-5 burn attempts to make a working copy, which even then may only work so-so...)

We'd need to know more about both your console (model, age, etc) and your media (brand, recommended burn speed, real burn speed you used) in order to give more detailed help.

You should also search for information about the game itself, to see if others have found it compatible with ESR, as it obviously won't work for you either if there is some compatibility problem.

Best regards: dlanor

[-ZeitGeist-]

Originally Posted by dlanor

With DVD+R you should make sure that your burning program uses the correct 'Booktype' setting for DVDROM. But I'm not sure that this is the problem you're having. I think it would freeze earlier in such a case, not going through 'all the colors' as you say.

Another possible cause of problems is of course the media quality, as these consoles are rather sensitive about that. No-name brands are mostly useless, and cheap deals may turn expensive in the end. (Half price is no good if it takes 4-5 burn attempts to make a working copy, which even then may only work so-so...)

We'd need to know more about both your console (model, age, etc) and your media (brand, recommended burn speed, real burn speed you used) in order to give more detailed help.

You should also search for information about the game itself, to see if others have found it compatible with ESR, as it obviously won't work for you either if there is some compatibility problem.

Best regards: dlanor

Thanks for the response ill try giving u more detail on my burner and ps2 model and what not.

Console: SCPH-30001 R
DVD player: 2.10U
Also its about a few years old

My Laptops DVD Burner is an Optiarc DVD RW AD-7563A ATA Device and i just leave the settings for it normal since in my image burn thing it doesnt have the Opitiarc setting available. And as for the disk speed i leave it on automatic. I hope that gives you a little more info i just bought some dvd-r's im going to test those out i think my ps2 just might have trouble reading them. And the type of DVD+R's are memorex

[dangwoot]

i would suggest getting some sony dvd-r's from like say wal-mart make sure they have accucore 95% of my games work on these burning at 4x as i have the same model ps2.

[-ZeitGeist-]

yup just bought some dvd-r's works good as gold god dammit lol now i have so many blanks its retarded hahahaha but thanks for everyones help anyways.

[dangwoot]

glad you got it sorted out ^_^

[-ZeitGeist-]

also if any off chance this helps anybody it seems that guitar hero 3 freezes on the loading screen if u change out your controllers then. so i kept my dualshock in until it got past the loading screen and it worked fine then u can switch them out.

[alpha2211]

Just out of interest ZeitGeist, does your backup copy of GH3 take a particularly long time to load/save compared with the original? (like 15 seconds or so)

[-ZeitGeist-]

yeah it does have quite a bit of load time my other disk wouldnt load some songs tho so i had to back it up but yeah idk if thats cuz of the write speed or what but it does have a quite a bit of load time.

[aar36095]

My backup of GH3 takes long too, but HDLoader fixed that. ;P
EDIT: 95th Post! Yay! =]
EDIT 2: If you people haven't been paying attention, I was born in '95...

[R4_]

ffgriever I love you :I

Serious you really made my day when I found out about this...

Keep up the great!!! work















Marry my?

[amp2006]

wtf ..lol

[ffgriever]

Originally Posted by R4_

Marry my?

Unless you're hard-working, good-earning, nice-looking, human-loving, fast-talking, street-smart, slam-dancing Moogle babe... I don't think it would be possible, kupo!

[yoshi314]

so it's a new form of c&d letter? like "we'll send you a nice chick over, so please drop the project already" xD

[asidtab]

Originally Posted by DariuszG

thanks for answers

im using Toxic DL patcher.

i dont want to change my burner firmware, ive changed it once (quite long time ago), because it burns DVD-R pretty perfect, and i dont want to mess anything

i found that DVD Decrypter has problem with burning second layer, but ive read that nero works just fine. is it true?

can someone write step by step how to prepare DVD9 ISO for burning (in what order to apply patches), and how to burn it (programs names with their versions)?



thanks, i already have DVD5 version (before ESR i was using SM 3.3) of GOW, but i wanted to have full version (finally i can, thanks to ESR )

did you try IMG Burn http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download as Ive used it to do most of my games if you would like me to try Nero for you let me no what Nero version you have
1 burn ISO to hard drive
2 patch ISO with Toxic DL patcher
3 patch ISO with ESRDiscPatcher or MementoDiscPatcher
4 burn it to disk
if you still can not get it to work take it to a friends place to see if his\her burner will do both layers as i had a scratch on my GOW so it would not burn on my burner at my friends it worked Good luck to you as I think that GOW 1 GOW 2 are the best games on the Ps2 .

[-ZeitGeist-]

Hey guys im back again my friend is having trouble with it i sent him the esr beta and he gets stuck on the pink color and it freezes everytime he boots the game. Hes tried like 7 different games Socom 2, Socom CA, The Hitman, Gta San Andreas. Hes using Sony DVD-R's and running on a fat ps2 and burning with with dvd-decrypter i dont know what the model is but he said he always freezes everytime it trys loading the disk it will get stuck on pink and freeze Some help would be greatly appreciated

[slicer74]

Are the games patch with ESR patcher 0.2.4 ?
How is the ESR launch ?

[asidtab]

Originally Posted by -ZeitGeist-

Hey guys im back again my friend is having trouble with it i sent him the esr beta and he gets stuck on the pink color and it freezes everytime he boots the game. Hes tried like 7 different games Socom 2, Socom CA, The Hitman, Gta San Andreas. Hes using Sony DVD-R's and running on a fat ps2 and burning with with dvd-decrypter i dont know what the model is but he said he always freezes everytime it trys loading the disk it will get stuck on pink and freeze Some help would be greatly appreciated

tell your friend to go here it may help http://bootleg.sksapps.com/tutorials/fmcb/ I used uLaunchELF to launch FREE_MCBOOT.ELF but there lats of ways. also img burn is better for burning games then dvd-decrypter http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
TOOLS
free mcboot 1.7 http://psx-scene.com/forums/freevast...-releases.html

ESR and ESR disc patcher GUI v0.24a http://www.psx-scene.com/forums/free...blic-beta.html

[brayan81cu]

It would be nice if at this point ffgriever publish the ESR source code under some kind of licence, maybe another programers can help with his project, ESR is still beta but work very nice with almost 90% of ps2 games, and give us a better compatibility than HDL, maybe in a future ESR could read games from HD too with more stability and more compatibility than HDLoader, but it's a hard work for only one programmer and the comunity is intersted in colaborate with this project, me for example i'm intersted in colaborate in some way.