So I've been trying to get the Sony HDD OSD installed on my PAL 50003 using the SUDC4. As expected the HDD utilities black screens and FMCB restarts the console. Is there any work around to install the HDD OSD on a PAL unit? Is there a reliable patched version? Thanks.
Are you loading the disc by ESR or OPL? If so, it will not work that way. If you don't have a modchip you have to perform a swap trick.
Thank for the reply. I'm using swap trick as it's only FMCB softmodded. I can get into menu but it black screens when I try to run Sony HDD utilities 1.10 from the menu. I expected this as it's a NTSC-U program. Is there any option for PAL units?
Thanks for the advice. I should have been clearer. I can boot the SUDC4 using a swap magic disc but I can't get it to run the HDD OSD application without black screening. I think I read this is because the applications are coded to either US or JAP and will only work on those specific region machines. There was no official PAL release. Was there ever a modified PAL release or a workaround?
I doubt it is because of the disc region. The files are also protected with MagicGate. The MagicGate regions are much more finer-grained, so even NTSC-U/C sets will be unable to normally boot a NTSC-J utility disc. I think it happened because you used the swap trick. The utility disc has the real data hidden around the discs, with the MECHACON telling the software where the data is stored. The locations also depend on the disc ID, so a trick like the swap trick is bound to make this fail because it was the swap disc that got authenticated. That is, unless @krHACKen patched out that method of uncovering the hidden files on the disc.
