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Old 02-07-2003, 05:00
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Re-selfbooting AUDIO/DATT CDs to DATA/DATA CDs

I've succesfully re-selfbooted like 50 games that use the AUDIO/DATA selfboot format using cdirip, isofix, isobuster, mkisofs, and xeal's bin2boot.
My DC would not boot audio/data selfboot games 90% of the time. It doesn't even works with some (silver) music cd's! But the DATA/DATA format works 100%.

BUT.. i've been having problems with games with CDDA tracks. Every tutorial i've found on the net only covers remastering games with just one data track. bin2boot works with old kalisto releases that weren't selfbootable (bin/cue) but i still haven't been able to do that with AUDIO/DATA games with audio tracks.

Anyway, i found this wonderful forum yesterday, and browsing thru some of the posts, i discovered this wonderful page:
http://darkfalz.hypermart.net/software/
I quickly downloaded CDDA patcher from there and tried it on Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX (14+ audio tracks at the start). Patched the 1st_read.bin succesfully with LBA 0 + CDDA, and presto, SOME of the audio tracks works.
I expected that some would work but without order, i.e. in some rips the first three or so tracks are blank (3 sec silence) but here, the game would always play some songs and others it wouldn't...at least the first time i tried. Using the game menu to browse the songs, it seems that they work randomly. Some of them work everytime (the deftones song comes to mind), but i.e. the title song won't do it.
SO... i did a diff from the 1ST.. files, patched and unpatched and found this gem... it coverted this WHOLE block:

11D0 224F 083F F360 462F 562F 662F 0365 10D0 0B40 00E4 F666 F665 F664
FC74 FD75 0844 0845 FC34 FC35 4264 5265 FFE0 0035 018B 06D0 FE05 06D0
0924 0925 02D0 0C3F 05D0 264F 2B40 FF75 9801 0000 9401 0000 FFFF FF00
822B 048C 202E 048C

to this:

E62F D62F C62F B62F A62F 224F F87F 36D3 436B 622F 3264 4160 0188 058F
536A 4185 0365 FC75 5C3A 5C3B 03E3 333B 508B 2FDD 00E7 2FD3 7366 D264
7365 0B43 4554 036E E82E 4589 0200 4E93 0940 0940 0FC9 011F 0200 3920
F0CB 0E40 D26C A365

I know that this is for CDDA (because the patcher says so). But i expected a two-byte trick and not this BLOCK of code.

Also read about hack2, hack3, and hack4. found a link to http://internetconvoy.com/ but that site seems to be down. Any idea what are those files for? they don't seem to be available.

My last list of questions:
does anyone knows how to do this?
can't anyone explain me why re-selfbooting kalisto's power stone 2 doesn't work?

Thanks in advance!
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