FFVIII Wont Load black screen or error message

[Doober]

Hey guys,

I used to own FFVII-FFIX for the Sony Playstation. I hadn't played them in a while and they were too scuffed up to play on the discs I still have. So I decided to download the roms. I can get FFVII to work fine. FFIX works well but the FMV's suck. For some reason FFVIII wont load all Iget is a black screen or an error message when I try to load the ISO.

IMG of error.


I looked up some stuff that said to patch it but I don't know how, and I'm not sure if I should trust the site. It was full of porn and my AVAST blocked like 8 malicious programs.


Thanks for the help guys.

[Knightshade]

is the game pal or ntsc if pal i believe you will have to patch it

[Doober]

It says NTSC on the file name. I hope it is. How would I patch it?

[Knightshade]

I'm not sure as I've not had the problem myself after googling it i found several people with the same problem and they say to use this emulator for ff 8 http://www.emuparadise.org/Sony_Play...Windows/PSX/41

but if you must run epsxe someone else like possibly zorlon will be along shortly to help you

by the way the psx emu above does not have all the plug-in features of epsxe as their goal has always been to accurately emulate the playstation the same bios you have for epsxe should work as well just copy and paste
setup is very easy

[Wyrm]

What version of ePSXe are you using?

[Knightshade]

according to the pic he linked 1.7

[Jazzmarazz]

Try shortening the name of your folders, or move it to your desktop. Many progs cannot go further than so many directories.
I do not think you need a patch for anything, you might have just messed up with the file type/ Do you know about ECM files?
If it was an ECM, you have to use ECMTools to extract the image properly.

[Wyrm]

according to the pic he linked 1.7

Really? 'Cause i dont see that anywhere in the pic.
Anyways, Doober, if you are using 1.7, switch to 1.52 for your FF games.
Make sure you set the off screen drawing to 2-3 in your video plugin.

EDIT: I see where it says 1.7 now
Definately switch to 1.52.

[Zorlon]

Just mount the CD images with Daemon tools Lite (It's a free virtual CD-Rom drive) to bypass the FMV issues in FFIX also fixes disc changing aswell

Not sure what sucks about the FMV though in FFIX so not sure how to fix it

The game works perfectly fine in 1.7.0. but 1.5.2 less needs tweeked for the Final Fantasy games.. well not realy but some find it easier to use or something

As for FFVIII I'm not 100% sure yet, you can try mounting that aswell but to be honest it should atleast boot the game regardless, the error tells me there might be something wrong with the CD image or it was an ecm and was just renamed to remove .ecm from the file name, instead of being dropped onto unecm

All the NTSC versions of Final Fantasy are not protected so don't require patching.

[Doober]

Try shortening the name of your folders, or move it to your desktop. Many progs cannot go further than so many directories.
I do not think you need a patch for anything, you might have just messed up with the file type/ Do you know about ECM files?
If it was an ECM, you have to use ECMTools to extract the image properly.

yeah, one of them was an ecm file. What site should I go to, to get the extractor.

[Wyrm]

We have it here.

Here you go.

Just drag and drop the .ecm onto unecm.exe.

[Jazzmarazz]

We have it here.

Here you go.

Just drag and drop the .ecm onto unecm.exe.

Lol, thats seems to always be the problem. Thanks for the linky worm.

[Wyrm]

Lol, thats seems to always be the problem. Thanks for the linky worm.

The first time i saw a .ECM file it took me a minute to figure it out.
It took one search on google of "Linux .ECM" to find out that linux has a built it unecm tool

[Doober]

IT WORKS! Thanks guys.

[masterpep3]

can u post the link on where u got your FFVIII? mine seems to have a problem on battle mode., i cant see the windows and HP., do i need to do something? or download plug ins?., im using ePSXe 1.7., thanks for your reply