PS2 with Action Replay

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Posted: 25-02-2005

flsgod (New on Forum): Posts: 2

How can I copy a PS2 game so that I copy the boot code to the backup as well? I have a modded-PS2 and I can play any backup games without a problem. However, I want to use Action Replay MAX to cheat and play the backup games...I am unable to that because the boot sector is not copied to the backup.

I know there are ways you can do that as some games I made actually work with Action Replay because the boot sector is copied to it. But most of my game DOES NOT work with action replay. Can anyone please help?

Thanks

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Today (MyCE Staff): Posts: 15,596

Posted: 25-02-2005

flsgod (New on Forum): Posts: 2

Is it true that I need to burn the backup slowly? or some sort of setting I need to alter?

Because I have a backup that has a bootable code on there, but when I make a BACKUP of the BACKUP, all I do is using CloneCD to copy the disc.... the new backup wouldn't boot with Action Replay anymore...WHY IS THAT???

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Posted: 25-02-2005

Saruman (CD Freaks Senior Member): Posts: 476

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the boot code. For the original PSX, it is a deliberate wobble that is placed into the lead-in. The wobble cannot be burned on a CDR because the CDR has a pre-set wobble called the ATIP that provides the drive with a "groove", so to speak, which acts as a starting point for the burner and as a guide. While its not completely hopeless, the only way to fool the PSX into thinking a copy is the real deal is to mask the ATIP wobble and somehow burn the SCEx wobble.

With the PS2, it is suspected that the protection is a similar wobble, however, it has to be applicable to both the CD games and the DVD games, so I don't know if its located in the lead-in or the lead-out.

This has been hashed out for a long time, check out the various threads in the Optical Storage Technical Discussion forum.

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