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...because of a bug with pcsx2.
It's not on some special version of pcsx2,it won't run on any pcsx2 version.
The problem is that the game SYSTEM.CNF contains characters that are not normally seen in SYSTEM.CNF files.The emu just crash immediately if I try to run the game from disk or image(it only loads till it find what kind of disk I'm trying to run and 0.9.6 says that this is not a PS2 game)
If I rebuild the ISO(and edit the SYSTEM.CNF)the game is running without any problems...and btw I tried to open the game elf inside the disk but it still crash
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Please post an attachment of the original SYSTEM.CNF file. Thanks.
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Something like file encrypted then. This is an interesting info.
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>> Emulation speed differs for each game. There will be some you can run fast easily, but others will simply require more powerfull hardware <<.
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if you can quite easily make the game playble in the emulator,
it possible the "changes" to play the game will be available in the new Beta version?
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Is it possible for you to upload the modified file? I assume I would just open up the iso with winrar then replace the file in there.
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Heh, yeah this is a really easy fix. The CNF file is simply padded to 32k, and the (ancient!) PCSX2 ELF loader reads the whole file into a 256 character buffer. Translation: memory destruction.
A comment even says:
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char buffer[256]; // if the file is longer... it should be shorter! :D
By total coincidence I just started fixing up a bunch of CDVD code this morning, and this was one of the things I'd already worked on fixing in my local 0.9.7 head revision.
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Glad to hear that progress, perhaps that way can increase compatibility pcsx2 program for reading in games, we hope.
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>> Emulation speed differs for each game. There will be some you can run fast easily, but others will simply require more powerfull hardware <<.
