[PS2] POPS stuff & POPStarter

Games converted with CUE2POPS_2_0.EXE.
Tested with POPStarter Rev.12 with EXECUTE.KELF from HDD OSD.
Some problematic games where also tested with PSP POPS 6.60 bios.
Tested just the intro's, menu's and played a little through the game.

Working:
- Gran Turismo SCUS-94194 works, sound and graphics are ok. Only played Arcade Mode.
- Capcom vs. SNK - Millennium Fight 2000 Pro SLUS-01476 works.
- Tetris Plus SLUS-00338 works.
- Bubble Bobble - featuring Rainbow SLUS-00370 works.
- Tekken 2 SLUS-00213 v1.0 and v1.1 both versions work.
- Mr. Driller SLUS-01111 works.
- Jojo's Bizarre Adventure SLUS-01060 works.
- Rally de Africa SLPS-01601 works.
- Rally de Europe SLPS-02679 works.
- Einhander SCUS-94243 works
- Eliminator SLUS-00699 works.
- Disney's Tarzan SCUS-94456 works.
- Rayman ULUS-00005 works but no music in level 2, tested in pc emu, same behaviour.
- SnoBow Kids Plus SLPS-01823 works.
- Street Fighter Alpha 3 SLUS-00821 works.
- Crash Bandicoot 3 - Warped SCUS-94244 works.
- Crash Bandicoot 2 - Cortex Strikes Back SCUS-94154 works.
- Crash Bandicoot SCUS-94900 works.
- Tunnel B1 SLUS-00188 works.
- Star Gladiator SLUS-00372 works.
- K-1 Arena Fighters SLUS-00414 works, minor graphic glitches in replays.
- Die Hard Trilogy 2 SLUS-01015 works, minor glitch; you can see through walls.
- Cool Boarders 3 SCUS-94251 graphics, sfx and music ok, game runs fine.
- Cool Boarders 4 SCUS-94559 graphics, sfx and music ok, game runs fine.
- Cool Boarders 2001 SCUS-94597 graphics, sfx and music ok, game runs fine.
- Andretti Racing SLUS-00264 game runs fine, minor sound distortion at start of level.
- Klonoa - Door To Phantomile SLUS-00585 game runs fine.
- N2O - Nitrous Oxyde SLUS-00637 game runs fine. Great music btw.
- Die Hard Trilogy SLUS-00119 game runs fine, no music, probably bad cue file.

Game runs with glitches:
- Area 51 SLUS-00164 game runs fine, sounds seems to be ok, but you can't hear the enemies when they fire at you. You can hear your own shots.
- Crash Bash SCUS-94570 Game runs, music and sfx ok. Unfortunately the characters have graphical glitches, they keep flickering. Unplayable.
- ESPN Extreme Games SCUS-94503 Game plays fine, music is ok, but SFX isn't working, only hearing a continuing beep.
- Bushido Blade 2 SLUS-00663, unfortunately i have a rip with a bad cue file, therefore no music in game, can't test if music works. Everything else is ok.
- Tobal No.1 SLPS-00400 music, SFX and intro ok, game is just partially playable due to some graphic glitches, characters disappear...
- Soul Blade SLUS-00240 v1.0 and v1.1 intro movie ok, gameplay with glitches, chararacters are misformed. Entering gameplay in Edge Master Mode freezes game and hard reset needed.
- Monaco Grand Prix SLUS-00834 problems with intro sound, game plays fine and ingame sound is ok.
- Ehrgeiz - God Bless the Ring SLUS-00809 some minor graphic problems, exiting arcade mode gives you bsod, hard reset needed.
- Descent Maximum SLUS-00460 sound not ok, game is slow.
- Doom_SLUS-00077 sound not ok, game is slow.
- Arcade Party Pack SLUS-00952 some games cannot be loaded, exit to browser still works.
- Front Mission 2 SLPS-01000 graphical glitches, no text on screen during gameplay.
- Tekken SLUS-00006 gameplay and background music are ok, but sound effects are messed up.
- Tekken 3 SLUS-00402 graphic glitches, playes are distorted.
- Cool Boarders 2 SCUS-94358 no music.
- Cool Boarders Extreme Snowboarding SCUS-94356 no music.
- Fighting Force v1.0 SLUS-00433 Eidos intro no sound, with 6.60 bios sound ok, no music in level 1 with or without 6.60 bios.
- Fighting Force v1.1 SLUS-00433 Eidos intro ok with built-in bios, no music in level 1 with or without 6.60 bios.
- Fighting Force v1.2 SLUS-00433 Eidos intro ok with built-in bios, no music in level 1 with or without 6.60 bios.

Not working:
- Tomb Raider SLUS-00152 v1.0 until v1.6 all versions: intro video starts, but screen goes black after starting a new game or selecting Lara's Home. Exit to browser works.
- Crash Team Racing SCUS-94426 BSOD, cannot return to browser with L1+START+SELECT, hard reset needed to restart the PS2.
- Brave Fencer Musashi SLUS-00726 Game starts fine, but after selecting start game, BSOD and hard reset needed.
- Castlevania - Symphony Of The Night SLUS-00067 Game starts fine, but after selecting start game; black screen. Exit to browser works.
- Vib-Ribbon SCES-02873 Freezes at loading screen. Exit to browser works.
- Vib-Ribbon SCPS-18012 Freezes at loading screen. Exit to browser works.

For some quick testing i put everything here, feel free to add it to the list.

 

You loosed me. Too techy for me :subdued:. Nevermind.

I only get r655 yesterday, so I dont know yet. I will try, and let you know.


@blueheaven : maybe you missed it, but I made a compatibility list yesterday (quite empty for now): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0As_WFUFvrRw5dE5fWEU1TTlscW9XMUtuTE12aU04d3c#gid=0. If you like to add your results. :very_drunk:

 

I've tried my CDRWIN copy of Rayman in the BIOS CD Player under pSX 1.13. A few tracks sounded cracky. The same happened when I played it with Codebreaker. Conclusion, my CDRWIN dump was nothing but a pile of crap.
One important thing I've noticed in RAYEU145F_CDRWIN.BIN is the MSF of track 50 -> 64:62:21 (where 62 in bold means 62 SECONDS:dejection. It's definitely wrong, there's something bugged in CUE2POPS.

EDIT : Oh man, since I've implemented the unconditional +2sec in v1.1, the src is messy as hell:dejection:

 

@AKuHAK thanx for your dirty pops.bat, it works ok.
Just i see this error popping up with your dirty pops.bat: 'Syntax Error : Argument 1 (Games\01-PSX_NTSC\test.cue) is not valid.'
Any ideas what that might be?

 

Cue sheet path (Games\01-PSX_NTSC\test.cue) encountered where a command name (gap++/gap--/vmode) was expected.

The syntax must be :
CUE2POPS.EXE test.cue <CMD_1>
but the program received :
CUE2POPS.EXE something test.cue


Okay, gap++/gap-- and the CDRWIN support are broken. I'll recode that portion because it's ugly and doesn't work properly.

 

Does the command accept spaces in the command line like this:
CUE2POPS_1_2_BATCH.EXE "F:\02-PSX Games\01-PSX_NTSC\Tomb Raider [Greatest Hits] [SLUS-00152].cue" "F:\02-PSX Games\01-PSX_NTSC\IMAGE0.VCD"
And does it affect the result? the image was succesfully converted...

Edit: nvm, it was something in the bat file, i edited it a bit and now it's ok (i think)

 

Yes, as long as the path which contains spaces is quoted.
Examples :
F:\02-PSX Games\01-PSX_NTSC\Tomb Raider [Greatest Hits] [SLUS-00152].cue WRONG
"F:\02-PSX Games\01-PSX_NTSC\Tomb Raider [Greatest Hits] [SLUS-00152].cue" CORRECT
F:\02-PSX Games\01-PSX_NTSC\IMAGE0.VCD WRONG
"F:\02-PSX Games\01-PSX_NTSC\IMAGE0.VCD" CORRECT


EDIT : That was the issue with the syntax error.
CUE2POPS thought that F:\02-PSX was the cue and Games\01-PSX_NTSC\test.cue was a command:biggrin-new: (because of the space between PSX and Games).

EDIT2 : So yes, your above example is correct.

 

wow, guess i gotta get my problematic games that wont work with PSP-POPS and try them with this one

 

Well about the problem with Rayman is caused by a bad or incomplete rip and not because
it's a incompatible game with POPStarter, glad to know.

About the GSM+r655 it uses the last version of GSM which is the 0.38 and not works.

The integrated version of GSM 037 with r644 and r646 works but don't obey to fix the Y position,
i don't remember if it have this result before Rev. 11.

I tested the standalone versions of GSM 036 and 0.37 and works but for me never worked well
before, it shows the image very reduced vertically.

The only version of GSM it worked fine for me before and now is the standalone 0.23x.

I think is a problem of the GSM versions itself and not by the emu, but better you try
the integrated one with pops-00001 for see the result.

But the gap commands are broken only when is used a dump made only with CDRWIN?

Regards.

 

I did not test as deeply as you, so thanks, thats useful information.

I just tried POPS-00001 with OPL+GSM r655 (NTSC enforce), and I can confirm that it doesnt work (no signal video).

 

Then the problem is the version 0.38 GSM integrated with r655, try the integrated 0.37
with r644/r646 or better the standalone GSM 0.23x.

Regards.

 

I'm affraid it's worse than what I expected. The +2sec calculation bug takes place in the unconditional +2 sec fix that I've implemented in v1.1.
It means that a odd MSF is written to indexes which have MM:58:FF or MM:59:FF in the cue regardless to the command/.BIN.

I'm currently rewriting all the +/- 2sec code of CUE2POPS...

 

Then when you finish the new cuepops whe need test the games which uses audio CD tracks
for see if anything is broken with the tracks.

Regards.

 

With pfsshell i see some identical partitions, which i can't see with uLe. I want to remove those partitions, can that be done with pfsshell? I can't seem to find a command for it....

 

These are not duplicates, but "parts" of the same partition. Don't attempt to remove them or you may screw the entire partition.

 

Weird behavior

As soon as I got the new version of the emulator I give it a shot, but a I got this strange behavior:

I prepared evrything as detailed in the README.TXT file, then when I execute the LAUNCHER.ELF or EXECUTE.ELF(properly renamed) POPS starts, it shows some text info while executing, then it freezes, if I press the power button another text info apppears very quickly and the game loads properly. I reformated the HD, repeated the whole process but no luck again.
Another problem I encountered is that if I run EXECUTE.ELF in memory card from the OSD using FreeMCBoo,t the game doesn't load, the emulator freezes.

Console info: SCPH-50001, IDE HD 40Gb, FreeMCBoot 1.8c

Best regards

 

I just tried to do the same (see if I can run EXECUTE.ELF or LAUNCHER.ELF (renammed), on mc0 from FMCB menu) and I got same result as you. Black screen, an HDD is not working (I can't hear it spinning, like it does usually when POPStarter is launched). Same files, placed on mc0, but launched with uLE : POPStarter works fine.

 

The same here, I just didnt' describe this in the previous post, launching from mc0 using uLE the game loads but I got the same problem I described, black screen, pressing power button the game loads.
I have the game (IMAGE0.VCD) in the same partition as EXECUTE.KELF (I know this is not needed unless HDD OS is used) maybe I missunderstood the instructions to prepare the emulator.

This is what I have:

__common

POPS
​

disc0
​

EXECUTE.ELF
​

PP.PSX_GAMES

IMAGE0.VCD
​

On USB drive, mc0, HD LAUNCHER.ELF renamed as: PP.PSX_GAMES.ELF

 

Check if you have :

Using EXECUTE.ELF version :

hdd:/__common/POPS/disc0
hdd:/PP.SILENT_HILL/IMAGE0.VCD
PP.SILENT_HILL.ELF = EXECUTED.ELF renammed


Using LAUNCHER.ELF version :

hdd:/__common/POPS/disc0
hdd:/__common/POPS/EXECUTE.ELF
hdd:/PP.SILENT_HILL/IMAGE0.VCD
PP.SILENT_HILL.ELF = LAUNCHER.ELF renammed

 

That's just what I have. I'm using LAUNCHER.ELF version. I posted this issue at EOL (elotrolado.net) there I have recommended trying with a disc inside the drive, right now I can't because I'm not a t home. Later I will try.