Pal --> NTSC?

[SleeplessHunter]

Hey guys/gals!

I know someones gonna point me to the ultimate sticky or wtv, but the link there for the pal-ntsc doesnt work...

Sooo, can anyone explain to me how this works? Besides downloading the patches, how can I do it myself?

(also, on a side note, is DVD Decrypter good for backing up games? is it as simple as inserting the original game, clicking read/make iso, and then burning the image? or am I hoping for too much simplicity?)

Thanks! :D

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[guod9]

Well I can't really help you with the PAL to NTSC conversion but as for as using DVD Decryptor your right. Just set it to ISO read to make an image. Then write the ISO. Easy as that.

[TylerDurden]

I have an Adrenalin Patching Utility with PAL-2-NTSC patches. It is basically a generic patcher that just scans your image and patches certain parts if needed.


Unfortunately its too big for me to attach here.


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[SleeplessHunter]

Cool thanks guys!

Any chance I can grab the file from you mr. durden? :P

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[Ps2_MaD]

I have some small patches if needed, but I have not tested it and since yours works, any chance I would be able to get a copy over messenger or something??

[TylerDurden]

You guys will have to catch me on AIM or PM me your email addresses. And Ill send you the whole deal.




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[stiletto9198]

Are there any tutorials or instructions on the use of this program? The website doesnt seem to be there any more, and ive only found people pointing to the program, and not how to use it.
Could anyone give me a hand?

[TylerDurden]

All you have to do is make an ISO and run ADR patcher with the PAL to NTSC patches loaded. Then just select the ISO and click patch.


Duh. :rolleyes:



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[shaggyd714]

Tyler - I have the patcher ur talking about. I can't get it to work on DVD games though. I'm not sure if it's due to the patcher being incompatible with DVD ISO's or if it's the method I'm using to make the ISO's.

It's working great with all my PAL CD ISO's.

Am I doing something wrong, or is there another patcher, or a workaround that I can use to make PS2 DVD game ISO's into NTSC ISO's ?

Please help.

[TylerDurden]

What way are you making your iso's?



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[shaggyd714]

I'm using DVD Decrypter rip them to .iso.

I used BlindWrite to rip the cd's to .iso but I can't figure out if you can use it to rip dvd's to .iso. I don't think so.

I almost had a system worked out yesterday to get the dvd's to ntsc. I ripped them to .mdf and had them auto-split into 680 mb sections using Alcohol 120%. Then I converted the 1st file to .iso using MagicISO. It was small enough to patch using Adrenaline with the pal2ntscY.data patch u posted on this board. Adrenaline finally worked on it then.

After that, I ran into trouble. Trying to find a prog to either convert the rest of the .mdf files to .iso's was impossible. (the files are actually .md0, .md1, etc. - and simply renaming them to .mdf was not good enough for MagicISO to convert them.). I searched all over the Internet for "convert .mdf to .iso" with no luck. Then, I went at it another way. I tried to find a prog to convert .iso to .mdf, since the 1st .mdf file that I converted to .iso was now patched, and I thought I could simply convert it back to .mdf and it could rejoin its friends and I'd burn it and hopefully it would work. Nope! Absolutely no .iso to .mdf converters anywhere! Everyone wants to convert .mdf to .iso, but noone wants to convert .iso to .mdf! :(

So, finally I settled for simply renaming the patched .iso to .mdf. It burned fine using Alcohol 120%.

Finally, I took the burned disc and put it in my Matrix Infinity PS2, and it booted great! :) Colors were great - image was centered on the screen - the splash logos played great - intro movie starts - first problem arises = some audio sync problems = all sounds in intro movie are doubled - got to the game's title screen - no prob - pushed the Start button - game menu pops up - I start to select "New GAme" and the game freezes up.

So close, yet so far away. Wish I could find the right appz to convert .iso to .mdf - I would probably have it then.

The other thing I'm trying to figure out is - there are tons of utilities on GCW for PSX pal to ntsc, but the PS2 section is scarce. Why is this? It seems most of the sites I dl ps2 backups from have mostly pal images. It seems it would be a priority for home-brew programmers to come up with great one-stop pal to ntsc patchers for this reason.

Oh well, if there's anything you can think of to make converting dvd games from pal to ntsc, please let me know.

Thanks - shaggyd :)

[shaggyd714]

Well, a tag to my previous post:

I figured out that Adrenaline does patch the DVD games perfectly. My problem was that the first 2 DVD's I tried it with must have been previously patched from ntsc to pal, because Adrenaline replied it couldn't find any files to patch - must be already patched.

But finally, I tried other PAL DVD Iso's that I had and they all work great on my NTSC system now! :) Hooray! So thank goodness for this thread and Adrenaline!

BTW - if anyone can figure out a way to remove the patch already placed on those first 2 dvd iso's I was talkin' about (above) so that I can patch them, please let me know. I'd appreciate it!

Thanks - shaggyd :)

[TylerDurden]

Since you didnt know they were patched before, I have to assume youve downloaded them.



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