game patches not working.. help

[psx2020]

ok, i've never really had any problems making psx backups before. however, now i've given patching a try and its not working. i have ppf-o-matic and pal4u 2k (all the new versions).

i got pdx's ppf-patch for fifa 2002, a pal/ntsc selector... didn't work. got the rolling screen with hardly any color and the pal/ntsc selector never even came up in the beginning, like the other pdx patched games i have (they were patched already).

then i used pal4u 2000 to just try a straight conversion of the game from pal to ntsc.... once again, didn't work.. pal4u found the sequences, made the patch, applied the patch, but the patch did nothing...... same result.

i also got pdx's ppf-patch for spiderman 2, another pal/ntsc selector.... applied the patch... and guess what??? it didn't work. selector never appears, and the game hangs at the black psx screen.

WTF?? am i doing something wrong here? 3 attempts, 3 coasters.




ed: i burn at 2x, and both files are standard .bin/.cue