going from disc one to disc two

ok ive been playing on emulaters for a while now (gb,64,snes,etc...) but im bout to start playing ff7 and i was wondering what i would have to do when i get to the part when you go from disc one to disc two and will it carry my save over

luckily ff7 has an ingame save when switching discs, so even if it happened to mess up switching discs you can load up the second disc and still continue.

If you use ePSXe to play that game, just use the 'Change Disc' option on the File menu.
and if you are using 1.7.0, and having problem with the changing disc option, either use 1.6.0 version, or save the game at the disc screen, and load the game through the 2nd disc.

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Originally Posted by meganova

If you use ePSXe to play that game, just use the 'Change Disc' option on the File menu.
and if you are using 1.7.0, and having problem with the changing disc option, either use 1.6.0 version, or save the game at the disc screen, and load the game through the 2nd disc.

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It's also been reported that using a different CD plugin works. As well as mounting the discs and swapping that way.

thanks for the quick replies but i cant even get ff7 to work

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Originally Posted by LONGDONGSILVER

thanks for the quick replies but i cant even get ff7 to work

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lol, what's wrong?

Also specify what version of epsxe the plugins and if you have integrated graphics, mounting or playing the iso etc.

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Originally Posted by Tanthias

It's also been reported that using a different CD plugin works. As well as mounting the discs and swapping that way.

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Well yeah, those method works sometimes, if it didn't, might as well switch to previous version.
1.7.0 has been known for its changing disc bugs anyway, sometimes, you can also use savestates to fix the problem.

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Originally Posted by meganova

Well yeah, those method works sometimes, if it didn't, might as well switch to previous version.
1.7.0 has been known for its changing disc bugs anyway, sometimes, you can also use savestates to fix the problem.

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Just stick to 1.7.0 it works just fine with mounted CD images as stated above, also it is best to run games mounted rather than from loading CD image that causes problems of it's own

Note: some games do have protection, though I'm sure ff7 was not one of them, ff8 PAL does though as does ff9 PAL the NTSC versions don't.

P.S. what files are you trying to run, full names please including extention... e.g. "Final Fantasy VII.bin" "Final Fantasy VII.cue" files must be extracted for PSX emulation by the way
if you are trying to run an ecm file this is also a compressed file that required it to be extracted with ecm tools

I am guessing that the emu is setup correcty though including the bios image, recomend you grab pete's plugins if you don't already have those

i have 1.7 with all the plugins but it says error loading iso file [scus-94163].iso]


i can make a video showing what all i have if that would help

i just went threw my files and i have nothing in my patches folder what do i need in the patch folder

Slightly related, its worth noting that Parasite Eve 2 is 2 discs, but does not feature a save function at the end of the first disc. However interesting fact, The last area of disc 1 is also on disc 2 so you just have to use the final save area before starting the event that makes the switch to disc 2.

i found out its easier to just use a memory card but i still cant get my epsxe to work

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Originally Posted by LONGDONGSILVER

i have 1.7 with all the plugins but it says error loading iso file [scus-94163].iso]


i can make a video showing what all i have if that would help

i just went threw my files and i have nothing in my patches folder what do i need in the patch folder

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If you're selecting the .CUE/.CCD or something when you go to FILE > Run ISO, select the .BIN file instead...

it says there a ecm which is the bigger file (646,676 kb) and and a ecu file only 1 kb but there is no bin file i downloaded the iso from this website

the ecm is a compressed file that needs extracting

also avoid using run iso and instead mount the cd image with daemon tools or another cd emulator and then use run cd instead

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Needed Files (All of these are free tools and you do not need to pay for any of them)
•7-zip Extract *.7z and *.rar
•ecm tools extracting and creating *.ecm
•Monkey's Audio *.ape to *.wav software
•DAEMON Tools Lite virtual CD drive
•ImgBurn for burning and re dumping
Extra's
•Cue's and Sbi's for any games missing cue sheets, sbi's can be used to aid hacking protection

This guide will cover all the above software used and point to downloads of the software but you may already have the software installed on your machine so just skip the download and install parts



7-zip
Dealing with 7z and rar files


Go to the 7-zip site and download and run the version designed for your OS.

Once installed you can then right click on rar and 7z files and select extract here or extract files if you wish to choose your own output folder

Note that some of these contain 7z files inside of rar files, both of these will need extracting

Do his now with your downloaded game (do one game disc at a time)


ecm tools
Dealing with ecm files


Download ecm tools and extract this into the same folder that you extracted the above, you can use the same right click method and choose extract files then choose the same folder as the game you extracted.

Now you should have extra files with you game files including unecm, you can now drag your ecm file and drop it on unecm.

Unecm should now run automatcly, this can take a small amount of time so just wait for it to complete.

once fully unecmed you should either have a *.bin file or a *.img file, at this point you may delete the old ecm file.


Monkey's Audio
Dealing with ape files, you may skip this totally if your game does not have ape files


Download and install Monkey's Audio (MAC)

Run it, now you will see on the left there is a big monkey head that says compress under it, hit the down arrow button on the right of the monkey head and hit Decompress, the Monkey head should change into what looks like a box with arrows pointing away from it

Now drap and drop all ape files into the big space under "File Name", now you can hit that Decompress button (picture of a box with arros pointing away from it), just wait for it to complete

Now not only should you have ape files in the folder but now there should be a wav version of every ape file you ran through the program, the ape's can be removed now and you can close the software.


Cue Missing
Dealing with games that have no cue or ccd file included.


Download Cue's and Sbi's and open with 7-zip

From there you can find the folder that matches your game, you are best off sorting by name in 7-zip.

Once you find the folder just double click it like you would with any other folder in that folder you should find the missing cue file and maybe an sbi file.

Drag and drop the cue file to the same folder the other game files are in.

You can close 7-zip now.


Faking CD hardware
Make your computer think you have a new CD/DVD/HD-Rom drive with a disc inserted


Download DAEMON Tools Lite and install it

(you may need to reset for this software during the install but the software will tell you if you need to do this)

Once fully installed there should be a small icon on the right of your task bar a round icon with a single lightning bolt going through it, if not run it manually the first time

Right click on the Daemon Tools Lite icon on the task bar and move your mouse to Virtual CD/DVD-ROM then move the mouse again to Device 0: [Drive leter] No Media, move the mouse once more to Mount Image and left click on it.

Now find the folder you have extracted and converted everything in and select the cue or ccd file and click on Open


Emulation with ePSXe
Setup ePSXe to read from Virtual drives


Run ePSXe, Hit Config, Cdrom then Configure.

On this screen make sure the drive leter is the same as the virtual drives, default is FirstCDRom but that should be your actual CD-Rom Drive not the Virtual one.

Once you have this setup just click OK till your back on the main program, now to run the disc you have mounted, in ePSXe you just need to hit File then Run CDROM


Burning to CD-Rom
Creating a bin+cue CD image from the Virtual drive using imgburn and burn the image.


NOTE:- if the game does not use wav/ape you can skip steps marked * and make sure the cd image is not mounted

Download and install ImgBurn then run it

*Choose Create image file from disc, next under Source choose the virtual drive, unlike your actual drive it has a very strange looking name but the drive leter matches up fine.

*Look at the Destination and change it if your not happy at where it will save by hitting the small folder icon with the spy glass at the end of it.

*Just hit that big green play button and wait for it to complete, shouldn't take that long then hit OK when it say it's done.

*Now thats done you can burn the new image file, click Mode on the top menu and choose Ez-Mode Picker.

Click Write image file to disc.

Under Source hit the folder icon with the spy glass at the end and choose your new cue file and hit Open.

Under Destination make sure your burning drive is selected, this should be selected by default though.

Under Settings change Write Speed to 1x, this will make the software burn at the slowest speed, though this will almost always be faster than 1x.

Time to hit that big green play button, you are given extra options while this burns, I'll leave that up to you to choose what you want the software to do after it completes it's burn.

Once done just hit the big OK and quit the software if you didn't tell it to do so automaticly






Thats all for the guide, for now, hope this helps.

TODO

Add info on fixing cue sheets....

For now I will say check your cue sheet in notepad and make sure all CDDA (Music) tracks are listed as .wav" WAVE instead of .bin" BINARY
I will add this later in a easy to understand layout.

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Sorry links are missing when the server went down and no time at the moment to find them, this is just one of the many guides I need to fix/re upload

Cue's and Sbi's http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L5YJ4KH0
ecm tools http://www.emuparadise.org/PSX/ecm%20tools.rar
Monkey's Audio http://www.monkeysaudio.com/

Thats the harder to find files anyway, daemon tools is easy to find as is 7-zip and imgburn

so i need to extract the files twice and i made a video

go to youtube and type in this need help with my epsxe

Bisicly yeah ecm is a newish form of compression that lets you compress at a higher rate (smaller files) when compressed again into rar zip and 7z files, the ecm site linked has more details

P.S. tons of vids show for that search

my youtube account is bjgriggers

here just click this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTR64AdXwOc

ps watch in full screen sorry i shot it that way


thanks zorlon but now it seem ive run into another problem

it says the instruction at oxoo41od8 refrenced memory oxoooooooo the memory could not be read

but heres A video


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUqZfTMX-3Y

sorry to repost but i need some help im leaving on a boat for work in 5 days and i need this done so i wont be bored at night we have no internet connection on the boat

For the memory issue, try using different video plugins, preferably the latest version, as well updating your graphic driver, and direct x to the latest.

If your first issue still hasn't been solved, first you need to convert your ECM file to BIN using ecmtools, before load it on ePSXe.

Make sure the CD-Rom plugin is correctly setup for the very odd mem issue from vid 2 in vid 1 you still had not extracted the ecm file, in this case gives you an iso

i fixed the problem in video one i converted the ecm file to .bin file thanks to zorlon

but on the problem in video two i should just mess around with the video plugins and download some new ones and try that? but if that doesnt fix it ill let you know

it's a problem with the cd plug-in not the vid one

either a reconfig on specificly the cd plug-in or you could try pete's at http://www.pbernert.com/html/cdr.htm

even petes didnt work its telling me this now

0x76ee41a6 ref memory 0x0013400


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i think its my laptop i tried the psxfin and psxseven, neither work telling me the same thing just diiferent codes, i had the psxfin working until i upgraded my computer to windows 7 ultimate the other day now i cant get any playstation emulator to work