Spec ops 2 -Omega Squad Problem Booting
 

Hy, i have a problem with this games to get it bootable in my DC.
The Image have 9 Tracks.
The first 8 are CDDA Tracks, and the 9 track is the Data Track.
If i use the original image my DC wont boot and goes directly into the music menu of the DC.
I try the Echelon Way for CDDA Games, but this wouldnt help.
I try a selfboot Toolkit found over Megagames, but this Kit needs a IP.bin which isnt there.
Then i try burning the CDDA on the CDR and then get over MSinfo the 0,199447. Then i want to put it in the 1st_Read.bin, but there was no ip.bin in the image so i tried using a IP.bin from another program. After then i create an ISO with MKISOFS and put in the Hacked IP.Bin with ipins.exe from a few seconds before. I burned the Data Track with cdrecord as shown in the Ehelon tutorial.
Then i tried the image to load in the DC, it shows the Sega Screen and then goes back to the DC Menu....
Is there a another tutorial or a better (working ;) way?

I extracted the Data Track and hacked the 1st_read.bin to 0,0 and create the Iso of the files, and use bin2boot for creating the cdi. The Image works perfect, but without the CDDA Tracks.

Maybe someone can help.. Thank you very much

Odity

Try 2 burn with Alcohol 120% or you can try Echelon method; if this game is SB, you can extract ip.bin with CDRWin: In extract disc, tracks, choose select sectors, then you click the second session to see LBA of this, you put the number you gave in the LBA in start and finally add 15 to that number to put in end (ex: if your LBA is 11700, the sectors between 11700-11715: it´s that you need there), and least, but not least, put data mode 2 form 1 (2048), rename to Ip.bin and you have an Ip.bin! In many cases you need to hack another .bins that you have in the game (Maigo, etc) to work OK!

Cheers!:D

Hy, thanks for reply,
i have was searching trough the Forum these morning, cause i had a lot of time at work.
I find the IP.BIN extracting there too. Just have to try! I will post whats comes out of this action :)
Thanks
Bye

Ok, it works.
the problem was i inserted, do not ask why, with the binhack not only the LBA, i inserted 0,<LBA> that was a big mistake...
and i get the ip.bin over the method you told before.

Another question, if the game is a CDDA game, and wasn´t bootable, how do i get the ip.bin then?
As i know if i have a game which need the utopia boot cd and have CDDA there is no ip.bin!?
Or can i use an ip.bin from the utopia cd and only have to fix, for example with ipbin4win, the startet Bootfile (1st_read.bin; boot.bin....)
Thank you very much!
Odity