having problems with originals...

[justpancho]

Okay.. I need your advice. I bought a messiah 2 pro version 1.3... and sent it to a reputable place to get it modded. I just got it back today and I was doing some testing. All of my original ps2 games work just fine... but only some of my original ps1 games will boot. I hooked up those same games to my ps1 and they played fine so I know it is not a problem with with the actual disk. Out of 15 games.. only 6 won't work.

Is there something I'm not doing right? From what I've read.. with the messiah 2 pro.. everything should work. None of my old ps1 backups are working either, but they were made on some really sloppy media so that might be the case there.

Do you think this is more of a problem with the chip or the install? My ps2 is version 5. Both the place where I got the modchip from and the person who modded it came highly recommended here on this board (which is why I'm reluctant to mention their names).

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

panch

[mach7]

When you turn it on, are you holding down the power button until the blue eject light turns on?

[justpancho]

thanks so much mach7... that fixed all the originals!

Now on to getting the backups to work. I have several backups that do work in my old ps1 via the eject trick... but none of them will play on the modded ps2 (even when holding down the button). I know the cd-r's are pretty cheap and generic. Is that the possible problem? If so, what is a good cd-r brand that I could try that will most likely work?

I noticed you had the same dvd burner that I do. Do you use nero, primodvd, or recordnow max to burn dvds?

thanks again!
panch

[bighap]

Yeah I would try reburning them onto Verbatim or TDK cd-r and see how that goes.

[mach7]

I use Alcohol 120% for CDs (TDK brand)

and RecordNow Max for DVDs (Ritek brand)

Oddly enough, with that burner, if I burn the Ritek's at 1x speed the games and video comes out choppy.... I have to burn them at 2x. Just something to look at if you are getting choppy video and such in games.

Also, to play DVDs you will need to hold down the power button until you see the blue light, just like for PS1 games. Otherwise the machine will try to boot the DVD as a PS2 game.

I would replace that old media, and get yourself a DVD lens cleaner for your PS2 and use it often.

[justpancho]

Thanks for the help! Man yesterday was a frustrating day! I went out and bought some tdk cd-r's for my ps1 backups. I tried all day to get it to work. I was mainly using Clone CD.. first with my cd burner then using my sony dvd burner. Late last night I finally realized that when I was making the image I was getting errors. (hehe yes I know I'm slow :/ ) So I tried cleaning the disc.. same thing. My original discs are old and very well used since I've played them so much. I finally tried one of the first games I ever bought for ps1 that really kind of sucked.. which means I never played it. I was able to get an image free of errors, but when I burned it onto the TDK cd-r it still wouldn't work. The discs either come up with "please insert a ps1 or ps2 game" or it goes to the audio screen so I can play the music for the game (which really does play the music hehe)

So at one a.m., I finally turned my attention to my ps2 games. I followed psx paul's instructions for record now max (I had found on another post that that is the program you used)... and I'm happy to report success! So at least I know my mod chip works heh. Leaving town today, so I'll have to wait to figure out these darned cd-r ps1 backups. It seems so easy so I don't know why my dumb a** can't figure it out :/

thanks again!
panch

[mach7]

If you hold down your power button until the weird cloud and objects floating around on the screen appear then you will turn the messiah chip off completely.

Make sure you are only holding that power button down for the 2 or so seconds until the blue light on the eject button appears to go into ps1 mode.