[PS2] POPS stuff & POPStarter

HELLO AGAIN IM SO TIRED IN MY SERCH FOR THE NEW COMBO BUTTONS FOR THE POPSTARTER U CAN HELP ME ???? AND IN SOTN I CANT SPELL TWO DIFFERENTS SPELLS OF SHIELDS BECAUSE THE GAME FREZZES

 

Please don't write again in caps.
Combo buttons for IGR are explained in the documentation of r13 WIP05.
About your freezes in SOTN i bet they can be by the same nature as are all the freezes on this game,
problem related with the sound, and for the moment there is not any solution.

Best regards.

 

@TOEDLAERGA
Select + Start + L1 [+ any other button] = In Game Reset (native)

LATEST BETA ONLY :
Select + L1 + R2 = Smooth textures ON
Select + L2 + R1 = Smooth textures OFF
Select + L2 + R2 + Triangle = Mimic CD lid open (useless *)
Select + L2 + R2 + Square = Mimic CD lid closed (useless *)
* one can't exchange VCDs with that, since POPS has no TOC refresh mechanism anyway...

 

@krHACKen The good thing about the lid open is that you can (with a ps1 bios) reach the memory card menu to delete files and the cd player will let you listen to the tracks of a game with cdda audio.

What I tried to do also is open the lid while playing a game, particularly in FFIX, you can skip fmv's in a ps1 if you open and close the lid but in pops the fmv just starts playing slow when the lid is open, and even after you input the combo to close it. Could this be fixed?

BTW could you please look into the sound issues of The Legend Of Dragoon? There are glitches when the music changes otherwise it plays fine, maybe it can be fixed.

Oh and before I forget, are the automated patches applied in the latest beta? I had to put patch 4 to get rid of slowdowns in FFIX.

 

I want to play Stormy Ascent from Crash Bandicoot. I found this code:
D0011DB2 3404
80011DB0 0022
Can someone convert my code to ps2rd format? Also, how do I name the .cht file so I can use it with OPL?

 

"Crash Bandicoot"
POPS Enable Code
902377F4 0C0902EF
Crash Bandicoot cheat
D0011DB2 00003404
11011DB0 00000022

800=110, but i dont know what we must do with D00

 

Hi guys, where can I download the Cue2pops v 2.1b? Please

 

You don't need it. There's another tool in the popstarter zip package. Read the readme.

 

oh thanks, I didn't noticed, I have a few questions what is trojan and IGR?

 

In Game Reset. A button combo to reset the console. I don't know about trojan

 

hello im new user of popstarter. i own a slim ps2 77004 pal console. i used to play my games from cdvd but the console is old now and the laser is starting to fail me. i was left with two choices 1 popstarter. or ps2psxe. i choose pops because its emulating only few thing and its using the internal psx emulation of ps2. ps2psxe its a complete emulator it self. ok lets cut to the chase all my games are pal-e and i use pops 13 wip 5 the latest stable. here my results.
resident evil 2 complete no bugs
resident evil directors cut complete no bugs.
resident evil 3 mondarate amount play no bugs
dino crisis 2 complete no bugs
crash bandicoot 1 little test first 5 levels no bugs
medievil 1 little play. no bugs. on hilltop mausoleum the 4 level. libcrypt pass ok i use no crack. cue bin rip from my original cd using ingburn(really now no need for patching??? awesome)
now my 2 broblematic games
dino crisis 1 the game have a fatal bug when you change weapon then you press r1 to aim is 95% possible the game will freeze.
im sure a lot of you have this problem. but their is a crazy fix. every time you change weapon don't using it until you make the game load 6 times. how to do that?? simply change your weapon lets just say from handgun to shotgun exit the map you are and reenter you need to pass the door 6 times now your shotgun will work. do that any time you change weapon and you will be fine. i believe some code related to weapon isn't load propery and need those 6 times to load correctly.
2nd problemetic game medieval 2
the game boots ok. its shows the videos ok. the sound play ok. then we reach the main title where the skeleton shows with the finger the stone with new game load game the screen misses colors the skeleton hand moves weird. the stone in not shown correct. if you start a new game the ps2 will freeze. but i was able to make some progress i try to put compatibility bins in the memory card of the game the patch 2 bin make the game continue from main tittle to ingame the level loading screen shows correct and the text with the level name too. game starts all the grafiks are black only the character is visible and the ghost that speak to you the backround music plays ok the dialogs between the character and the ghost are ok. but all the tectures are black. i really hope for a future fix.

 

beta 10 network support

 

Please remove that link, as the rar contains the POPS binaries and a bunch of PS1 BIOSes (not allowed in this thread).
Here's the release thread instead : http://www.metagames-eu.com/forums/...sion-13-sorties-et-developpements-134569.html

Edit : By the way, USB users who have VCDs in POPS# folders, do not update to beta 10. It's broken and reads VCDs from the POPS folder only. Stay on beta 7.

 

So here's beta 11, with the bug I mentionned above fixed... To be honest I didn't try it in USB mode but it worked in SMB... so I guess it's okay...

POPStarter_r13_WIP_06_OBT_20151111.zip

Since the betas don't come with a comprehensive documentation, here are some hints :
- The first post of this thread might be helpful to you
- Most of the beta features are described in this post
- Betas are really not new users friendly. If you didn't use POPStarter before, take a good look at the WIP 05 package (labeled "LATEST STABLE VERSION" in the first post) and to its documentation.
- New features and newly added CHEATS.TXT commands are briefly mentioned in CHANGES.TXT. Read that file from the bottom to the top hehe.
- Your good old POPS.PAK (for the USB mode) still works with that build. Though I recommend you to use POPS_IOX.PAK (google it and grab it from RGhost).
- Since beta 8, you don't need PFS_WRAP.BIN. That file is no longer loaded.
- If you want to use your own USB drivers, put usbd.irx and/or usbhdfsd.irx in the POPSTARTER folder of your PS2 memory card. It's case sensitive, make sure the file names are lowercase.
- The modules you need for using the network modes (listed in NETWORK.TXT) are part of the homebrew PS2SDK. I'm not going to post mine here because my PS2SDK installation is quite old.
- The network modes don't work with the old POPS.PAK. You need POPS_IOX.PAK.
- El_Patas and I figured that some PAL games may crash with the PAL patcher of POPStarter. So if you try the various compatibility modes, don't forget to also try your crashy PAL game with the PAL patcher disabled.
- The most recent Crash Team Racing fix was integrated in the beta. Please delete the old TROJAN_1 fix from your VMC folder.

 

good job guys now with network support??? that's good. is any fix for medieval 2??? pal-E??? and about dino crisis, any fix for the change weapon issue???

 

krHACKen thanks for the network mode. BTW recently I've been playing Chrono Cross and I encountered a freeze when Norris joins the party. I got around this problem with a cheat code to enable all characters in your party, that way it doesn't freeze.
Googling around I found out that changing the game ID to SCUS 94640 in the psp eboot solves the freezing problems with this game. Would it be possible to make trojans for the US CDs of Chrono Cross to change the ID to SCUS 94640. I'd like to test if that solves the issue for the pops version of PS2.

 

Excellent travail. Merci kHn.

 

Thank you very much for the new beta, for the bugfixes, compatible games, attempt for fix the Tekken 3, etc.
Great work.

This means that if we don't have this file the SMB connection can work?

Best regards

 

Yeah I think so. At least I have no problem connecting to my NAS without IPCONFIG.DAT.

I guess it works because $ONY added a compatibility flag for SCUS94640, in the PSP version of POPS. The PS2 version has no such thing, hence the dirty compatibility hacks I put in POPStarter.

Haven't been able to trace that crash yet. So I followed your instructions with the UK version. Unfortunately it didn't work :

(1:22) Passed 6 doors, aimed with the shotgun, frozen.

Resident Evil 3 has known known problems. El_Patas wrote about them in this thread, I cannot find his post. It was last year I think. Someone has shared 3 gamesaves with screen captures of the doors which make POPS crash.

Crash Bandicoot crashes when loading a few levels (including Temple Ruins). A fix was published. Users of the latest beta (WIP 7 Beta 11) don't need that fix, since it was integrated to POPStarter.

MediEvil... Yeah, like almost all the LibCrypt protected games, it does not need to be patched to run with POPStarter. During the testings of the POPStarter betas, we found that the Spanish and French versions (and maybe the others) of MediEvil crash after a long play time.
Long story short : Use the last POPStarter beta to play MediEvil. That problem was fixed.

D1011DB2 01003404
11011DB0 01000022

I think I found a bug in the beta 11 : $SAFEMODE seems to NOT work .

 

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