Final Fantasy VIII I cant get it to work

[Madisson]

Hi,

I've downloaded the Final Fantasy 8 file from this link

http://www.emuparadise.me/Sony_Plays...isc_1%29/52215

Ive read the ecm tutorial and downloaded both ecm tools and PakkISO
The Pakkiso totrial means if i finished the installation just simple right click to make the image file out of it.

The downloaded file is a Final Fantasy VIII (G) (Disc 1) [SLES-02082].7z 357MB .7z file
I have winrar and 7zip installed. If i rightclick i can only extract it but no ecm options.

So ive thought i will do it and what i get now is a "Final Fantasy VIII (G) (Disc 1) [SLES-02082].bin.ecm" File with 614MB

Now i have a .ecm ending so i thought i have to use one of these tools.

I dont know how to use Pakkiso because on rightclick no options for ecm tools does appear.

So than i tried the second tool ecm tools extract it and dragt and dropt the final fantasy.bin.ecm into the unecm.exe. I think the ecm.exe packs it and the f.bat i dont know, window pops up and closes.

Afte unecm.exe i get a Final Fantasy VIII (G) (Disc 1) [SLES-02082].bin with 698MB. Little bit bigger than before. But only that file.

My experience is that if open a image file with 7zip or winrar or mount it with a virtual cd/dvd i will see some psx files.

But here the .bin i cant open it with winzip and 7zip and if i mount it the cd is empty nothing there.

And if i try to run it with Epsxe. Ive tried run iso mooby and Mounted it and tried runcdrom function and different video plugins. All i get is a blackscreen. So i think ive done anything wrong.

I hope you can help me

[Zaladane]

Use Epsxe 1.6

You extracted correctly.

Load your .bin and you're good to go.

[Bennieboi20]

the pal versions have copy protection, download this http://crimson.emuparadise.org/zorlo...erman+4%5D.zip and extract it to the patches folder of ePSXe and you should be good to go i can do a step by step though if you need it?

[Madisson]

Thank you Pixie and Bennie

How can i apply these patch? Step by Step would be really cool

[Zaladane]

Just drop the patch in the patches folder wherever you have Epsxe.

I've heard the patch isn't perfect and can cause some issues, I would just go with an older version of Epsxe.

[Zorlon]

the patch does need extracting by the way

but yeah the patches just go into a sub folder in the main ePSXe folder called patches

Also the patch is only for CD 1 so you will need to boot with CD 1 every time then load your save at that point you will be asked for the correct CD if the save is from CD2, 3 or 4 just change CD then and everything should run as normal

the full patches page is at
http://www.epforums.org/showthread.p...atches-Archive

I do have another patch version for the German release but this is not in a format that will autopatch in ePSXe so you would need to patch the disc image for it to work

The other patch is for all 4 CD's from what I can gather from the google translation anyway

FF8 .. german

das raw image "ff8.bin" nennen (bei allen 4 cdz)!
dann den scheiss aus dem archiv in das verzeichnis mit dem raw image (2352) kopieren
und "ff8chk.bat" ausfuehren!

sollte es nicht funktionieren : liegts an euch

(c) by T & P

If you wish I can quickly upload this for you

I will eventually when I get time re-release all the other patches I have in ePSXe patches format (ppf format )

[Zaladane]

I figured he had the extracting stuff down, which is why I didn't mention it

[Zorlon]

I was just picking on you... not realy just felt it needed to be said

[Madisson]

Thank you! After ive copied the patch in the psx patches folder the game finally starts

Zorlon you have said that there is a way to autopatch all the FF8 cd's so there is no need to have a patch file in the psx folder. I would be really happy if it is possible to start directly with the cd 2 if im on that game progress.

Do i need a tool to patch the images? One Patch for each cd or one for all?

[Zorlon]

I will upload this tonight for you and it includes everything needed to patch the game

Though the instructions are rather bad, but it's not my personal patch or anything

[Madisson]

Thank you i will be patient.

[Zorlon]

Oops sorry was ment to upload it just about right away I forgot to though....

here you go

Final Fantasy VIII [PAL German] (T&P).zip

The patch looks for the file ff8.bin so temp rename each disc in turn to ff8.bin, then after patching change the name back to what it was beforehand so it still works with the cue sheet for each disc