Breath of Fire IV

[reddragon105]

I'm still having problems with this one guys!
I've tried all kinds of different software and media to back this game up, and it hangs at the PlayStation logo every time.
I've tried using Alcohol 120% on Playstation mode to read and write from the original, and I've tried patching the image with all 3 patches on megagames (there is 1 Japanese patch for mod protection and 2 USA patches for NTSC/PAL selector, one of the USA patches works fine, the other 2 say the image size is incorrect, but i've tried going ahead with it anyway) and in all cases I get the same result - hanging at the logo.

So what could the problem be? My original disk is slightly scuffed, but that shouldn't be a problem if there are no read errors when making the image, right? Could it be the hardware? I've got a v7 PS2 with Magic 3.1 modchip, it has played everything I've ever thrown at it, including all PSX backups on all kinds of media.

I'm at a loss here...