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Compilation Woes
Posted: March 3rd, 2014, 2:29 pm
by JeromeVictor
Hey all! I am new to this forum and have decided to ask for help with a compilation disc I've been having trouble with for a little while now for a little fun and late 90s nostalgia! I've been using Loser's PSX Menu 1.5 to load a ripped version of a certain horror game but I appear to be making a mistake somewhere and thus the game will not even load to the in game license screen (not the PSX BIOS one). I've created working blank one second long STR and XA files which I've put solely into an image using BUILDCD, which gives me no errors like file length isn't multiple of 2336 bytes per sector and have scanned the image using jPSXDec and both have played correctly with no scanning or reading errors. However when I use pSX or ePSXe the game sadly does not work. I will list the three batch files I am using to create my images:
1.bat
makecti.exe /SA lic.bin /2E .STR /2E .XAS data data.cti
2.bat (Needs DOSBox!
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buildcd -idata.iso data.cti
3.bat
stripiso 2352 data.iso data.img
copy /b lic.bin+data.img data.bin
del CDW900E.TOC, data.cti, data.img, data.iso, PCD600.TOC, QSHEET.TOC
Hopefully I've provided enough information for someone with much more experience to chip in with maybe something helpful that I've missed or just not been made aware of. Many thanks for reading and for this forum.
Re: Compilation Woes
Posted: March 4th, 2014, 7:55 pm
by t0rxe
What does your CTI table (DATA.CTI) look like?
Re: Compilation Woes
Posted: March 4th, 2014, 11:28 pm
by JeromeVictor
Thank you for your response, t0rxe! I've used a smaller game as to not spam this page so much.
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Disc XA_PSX
LeadIn XA
Empty 1000
PostGap 150
EndTrack
Track XA
Pause 150
Volume ISO9660
SystemArea lic.bin
PrimaryVolume
SystemIdentifier "PLAYSTATION"
VolumeIdentifier "PSX"
VolumeSetIdentifier "PSX"
PublisherIdentifier "PSX"
DataPreparerIdentifier "PSX"
ApplicationIdentifier "PSX"
Lpath
OptionalLpath
Mpath
OptionalMpath
Hierarchy
File DUMMY.STR
XASource data\DUMMY.STR
EndFile
File FMV.EXE;1
XAFileAttributes Form1 data
Source data\FMV.EXE
EndFile
File INTRO.STR
XASource data\INTRO.STR
EndFile
File JESTERS.PKG;1
XAFileAttributes Form1 data
Source data\JESTERS.PKG
EndFile
File LOGO.STR
XASource data\LOGO.STR
EndFile
File OUTRO.STR
XASource data\OUTRO.STR
EndFile
File PROGRAMS.TXT;1
XAFileAttributes Form1 data
Source data\PROGRAMS.TXT
EndFile
File PSX.EXE;1
XAFileAttributes Form1 data
Source data\PSX.EXE
EndFile
File SLUS_002.32;1
XAFileAttributes Form1 data
Source data\SLUS_002.32
EndFile
File SYSTEM.CNF;1
XAFileAttributes Form1 data
Source data\SYSTEM.CNF
EndFile
EndHierarchy
EndPrimaryVolume
EndVolume
PostGap 150
EndTrack
LeadOut XA
Empty 150
EndTrack
EndDisc
Re: Compilation Woes
Posted: March 6th, 2014, 11:57 am
by t0rxe
No problem. Here is the correct way on how to go about putting your files.
It's just an example. Edit it to your liking and ensure you have the license files pointed correctly.
After creating the .ISO from STRIPISO.EXE, patch the image with 'Disc Patcher'.
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Define LicensePath c:\cdgen\licenseDefine LicenseFile licensee.dat
Disc CDROMXA_PSX
CatalogNumber 0000000000000
LeadIn XA
Empty 1000
PostGap 150
EndTrack
Track XA
Pause 150
Volume ISO9660
SystemArea [LicensePath][LicenseFile]
PrimaryVolume
SystemIdentifier "PLAYSTATION"
VolumeIdentifier "SPYRO"
VolumeSetIdentifier "SPYRO"
PublisherIdentifier "SCEE"
DataPreparerIdentifier "SONY"
ApplicationIdentifier "PLAYSTATION"
LPath
OptionalLpath
MPath
OptionalMpath
Hierarchy
XAFileAttributes Form1 Audio
XAVideoAttributes ApplicationSpecific
XAAudioAttributes ADPCM_C Stereo ;you can also add 'Emphasis_On' before Stereo
File SYSTEM.CNF
XAFileAttributes Form1 Data
Source c:\psyq\projects\spyro\cdrom\SYSTEM.CNF
EndFile
File SPYRO.EXE
XAFileAttributes Form1 Data
Source c:\psyq\projects\spyro\cdrom\SPYRO.EXE
EndFile
Directory DATA
Directory TIM
File IMAGE1.TIM
XAFileAttributes Form1 Data
Source c:\psyq\projects\spyro\cdrom\tim\IMAGE1.TIM
EndFile
File IMAGE2.TIM
XAFileAttributes Form1 Data
Source c:\psyq\projects\spyro\cdrom\tim\IMAGE2.TIM
EndFile
EndDirectory
Directory VAG
File AUDIO1.VAG
XAFileAttributes Form1 Data
Source c:\psyq\projects\spyro\cdrom\vag\AUDIO1.VAG
EndFile
File AUDIO2.VAG
XAFileAttributes Form1 Data
Source c:\psyq\projects\spyro\cdrom\vag\AUDIO2.VAG
EndFile
EndDirectory
EndDirectory
Directory XA
File MUSIC1.XA
XASource c:\psyq\projects\spyro\cdrom\xa\MUSIC1.XA
EndFile
File MUSIC2.XA
XASource c:\psyq\projects\spyro\cdrom\xa\MUSIC2.XA
EndFile
EndDirectory
Directory STR
File VIDEO1.STR
XAFileAttributes Form1 Video
Source c:\psyq\projects\spyro\cdrom\str\VIDEO1.STR
EndFile
File VIDEO2.STR
XAFileAttributes Form1 Video
Source c:\psyq\projects\spyro\cdrom\str\VIDEO2.STR
EndFile
EndDirectory
EndHierarchy
EndPrimaryVolume
EndVolume
Empty 300
PostGap 150
EndTrack
;place as many audio tracks as you wish, but you must change the lead out to AUDIO instead of XA!
;Track AUDIO
;Pause 150
;Source c:\psyq\music\spyro1.raw
;EndTrack
LeadOut XA ;note that the leadout track must be the same data type as the last track (IE: AUDIO, XA or MODE1)
Empty 150
EndTrack
EndDisc
Re: Compilation Woes
Posted: March 7th, 2014, 6:45 am
by JeromeVictor
Awesome! Tried your CTI and using a fade to black effect I have discovered that my custom STRs are freezing at the end of playback. Still figuring out what's causing it.