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04-07-2002, 23:49
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Since everyone is worried about wasting a CD, I have a question:
Why don't you buy a CD-RW disc and use it instead? I KNOW the CD-RW is not a permanant copy, but you can always burn the final image on a CD-R after making sure the copy works... This was stated with the assumption that copying to CD-RWs is the same as copying to CD-Rs. 
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05-07-2002, 00:05
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Well I'll have to live without it I guess. It's no sweat, I can use my original, I just wanted to back it up. The reason I got a plugmod is that it's non-solder.....
Does anyone know if it works on the PS-Xchange? jcf_81 - I'm pretty sure the PSX cannot read CDR's. Besides, I've watsed enough CD's to know it's not gonna work 
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05-07-2002, 00:21
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06-07-2002, 14:11
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The CDRW WAS NOT A ltogether a bad idea
No, not for playing the game--but for checking for corruption on an image before wasting CD-R MEdia. Remember sectors 12-15? Mode2/Form2(Audio) sectors in the videos with the zeroed out EDC's (or "BE B0 13 3F")?? You can use CDRWIN's sector view and ISOBUster to find and check the EDC's on the CDRW copy--or just use one of your bright shiny new coasters you've been creating. They may be getting flubbed with the patch!
Open ISOBUSTER and find the Audio and Video Streams. Find a larger stream for each type--like 30MB's-- and make a note of the starting sector for each one. Open CDRWIN and open Sector view, navigate to sectors 12-15. They should read as Mode2/Form2(Empty) with EDC of "0000" or "BE B0 13 3F". Next, navigate to the start of the Video Streams (type in the first sector where they start). Start stepping up through the sectors until you see a Mode2/Form2(Audio) description. I've noticed not all streams will have this data--but if it is there, you should find it quickly, and it will repeat itself throughout the file in a pattern (like every 8 sectors or something like that). Try the same with the Audio Files. If you have Mode2/Form2 sectors with zeroed or "BE B0 13 3F" EDC's then they are probably OK, and the problem lies in either the mod solution or the media quality. The most important is sectors 12-15. They should only have the Synch string (00FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF), the header (00 00 02 12 02 is the time stamp for sector 12) and the subheader string (00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00) at the top--all else should be zeroes except for maybe the usually adjusted "BE B0 13 3F" EDC code (it will be in reverse order at the very end of the sector if you scroll down in the sector viewer). If sectors 12-15 are not true, then your image may never work--you need to use the ECCRegen tool in conjunction with the PPF patcher to reset the EDC's to the proper data strings. Just a thought. I always snap off a CDRW in CloneCD (I have some 10X media) and check it for corruption before I do the 1X burn to CD-R. Good Luck!
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06-07-2002, 17:57
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you could try to see if it works on different psx,my older one I used a plug mod on stoped booting all the time so I bought a psx anti-mod boot disk still had no luck,barrowed a newer psx and with the boot disk every game has booted,think my laser is going out.have had great luck with clone+compatable burner.good luck.
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06-07-2002, 18:27
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Don't you need to tweak the laser for it to read a CDRW?
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07-07-2002, 01:11
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Tweaking laser for CDRW
not likely--even if you did, it wouldn't read PSX/PS2 CDR any more, and you would burn out the laser in 1/4 the time. CDRW Media requires like 4 times the strength as a CDR to be read, that's why even PC drives will only read them between 4 and 8x most of the time 12x is the best I can get--And I use 10X CDRW's!
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15-07-2002, 18:42
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Man Alive..... this post is cool....
The main thing i think thats causing the trouble is the use of an external plug mod..... Have you tried your backups in another psx yet.... preferably one with an internal mod fitted...If they work then you are doing nothing wrong, and can only suspect the mod you have. Dont worry about CloneCD if your burner isnt compatable, use CDRWin instead, just leave all the settings as default, but for reading then make sure that the RAW option is checked, for writing then leave all settings as default including the RAW option. Use 4x to read and 2x to write. And dont forget the patch. I have read lots about renaming Clone image files to *.bin, well in some cases i can see that this may work but in most i would have thought that it wouldnt.
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