selfbooting MvC2

[MvC2_4_life]

I've had this problem eversince I've dove into messing with games. I figured out how to change the music for MvC2, cause like everyone else, I didn't really care for the original soundtrack on the game. I'm getting tired of using the utopia boot disc, every few months have to make another one of those things too. But anyways, I took the data off of an already selfbooting copy, and then threw in the 1ST_READ.bin and IP.bin of a nonselfbooting copy to make it a nonselfbooting copy of the game, I was told and read that this was the only way you could successfully change the music and play it, I've read on a few different forums of people making selfbooting copies of the game with the changed music. I've tried for over a year unsuccessfully to make a selfbooting copy of the game. I've tried just about every tutorial, but still no luck.... I've been thinking about it, and I'm not sure if keeping the 1ST_READ and IP.bin's of the selfbooting copy would change anything. Once I get everything ready to be burned for the copy, I'm not entirely sure just how to burn the cd, I can do the boot cd's just fine, cause it's just pre made file image to burn with nero. I'd greatly appreciate any kinda help, Thanks

[itoledo]

First try to make an iso of your selfbooting game... create a CDI of your game with discjuggler.
now cdirip it. you'll get 3 files: tdisc.cue, taudio01.wav and taudio02.iso
take note of the LBA of the 2nd track. should be 11700, 11702 or 45000.
now use isofix to "fix" the iso file... "isofix tdata02.iso 11700"
now use isobuster to check your fixed.iso. take note of the LBA of the 1st_read.bin file. extract all the files to an empty dir.
copy the bootfile.bin generated from isofix into that dir.
rename your fixed.iso to original.iso
modify your files (audio, music, ...)
create an iso of your patched game:
mkisofs -C 0,11700 -l -o out.iso GAMEDIR
(replace 11700 with your LBA).
isofix your out.iso:
isofix out.iso 11700
now compare your 1st_read.bin LBA's from original.iso and fixed.iso (your new game iso). Should be the same. if they are, continue.
now bin2boot it:
bin2boot fixed.iso /nohack
burn image.cdi with discjuggler.

hope this helps. this worked for me in skies of arcadia & other games.

[MvC2_4_life]

Thank you for the help!
kick ass!!!