Hi. 1st thing 1st. I use Saito's great tutorial here :
http://www.epforums.org/showthread.p...o-Dvd-Tutorial
Also used a couple of other tutorials I could found on the net as references. Basically the same thing, just different tools. I do know that US TTT is one of the CD game which is can't be converted to DVD with the "normal" way (DVDScanLite/CMP). But there are two patches specially made to patch the 2 files of US TTT by Saito. I also found the patches on some other forums and sites, but they're the same Saito's patches. The only US TTT patches available in the world are made by Saito hehe.
Anyway, I downloaded the US TTT ISO from here:
http://www.epforums.org/showthread.p...-U-Megaupload-
So I follow his tutorial, except instead the CMP part, I use those 2 patches on SLUS_200.01 & RSPU2DRV.IRX files respectively. Rebuilt the ISO with DVDGen, put in DUMMY.BIN (1.17 GB) as the last file, burned it into a DVDR with Nero. Try to play it with my fat PS2 which is modchipped with Messiah Pro, no harddisk, no add-ons, nothing, just a pure disc-lasering machine which can only read DVD media (UNABLE to read CD media), after the PLAYSTATION 2 screen, the screen turned black and then... nothing, just black forever. The game won't load, the controller analog LED didn't light on. Nothing. What gives?
On 2nd try, I tried to switching tools, DVDen 1.20 to DVDGen 1.50, IML2DVD 1.5 to Apache 2, of course I applied the same 2 patches. I've tried DVDScanLite 3.7 and CMP, and these programs can't even called any functions from SLUS_200.01, tho' they sure can patch RSPU2DRV.IRX into DVD, or at least that's what the log said. The result? Another coaster. The same black screen of infinity.
B4 these, I did download some already-converted-to-DVD US TTT ISOs, and tried to burn em (twice), but they gave me the same black screens. But I think those ISOs weren't properly patched, since I noticed a tmp.tmp file inside the IRX folder. That tmp.tmp usually a byproduct which is created after using CMP, in other words, whoever made those ISOs didn't use Saito's patches. Which is no wonder it wouldn't work.
Anyway what I did wrong? Why wouldn't the game work? I have theories:
- It does work, but on emulators only, but not on a modchipped machine. Which is bye bye TTT, I wouldn't be able to play you ever... I don't do emulators.
- The ISO which I downloaded is the Greatest Hits version, while it says SLUS_200.01 and all, it might be a different game after all? With different coding, etc.? While Saito's patches are made specifically for the 1st time released true US TTT? Is that why? BTW I just downloaded another US TTT CD ISO from here:
http://megaupload.com/?d=FOQJ5AP1
I checked the SLUS_200.01, the size is 2,873,472 bytes and the time stamp (last modified) is 8 September 2000 (assuming whoever made this ISO didn't change anything). Then when I checked the Greatest Hits version (also the -already-converted-to-DVD ISOs which didn't work), SLUS_200.01's size is 2,873,728 bytes (256 bytes different?) and the date stamp is 2 November 2000. So, um, is the Greatest Hits really a different version even though physically there are no in-game change (like Silent Hill Greatest Hits with added X-Box's extra ending & Maria story)? So if I apply the two patches to that US TTT ISO with 2,873,472 bytes of SLUS_200.01 will it work on my machine this time?
I'm too afraid to waste another DVDR now (5 coasters already ) so I want to hear out you guys opinion first.
Thank you for your attention. And I hope I can play TTT on my machine someday...