Xenosaga Ep1 Rebuild Tutorial

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raiden300

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11. January 2006 @ 12:03

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ok seen as a few people have been asking about this an I seem to be one of the rare few to get this game backed up and working. I have put together a step by step guide of what i did to get it working. my guide draws on the existing tutorials thats available and hopefully simplifies it. and if anybody needs a copy of the guide or the ripkit go to www.streamload.com/raiden300
I only just completed the game last week and advise any rpg fans to persevere with this as its well worth it. ok here it is

Xenosaga episode 1 3 disc rebuild tutorial

First of all, don’t take this tutorial as the be-all and end-all. This is what worked for me but it may not for you. In my situation the problem with the rebuild sorely lied with the disc1 ISO. The ISO’s made from the kit for disc2 and 3 worked fine first time for me.

What you need.

1. Very good quality media. I can’t stress enough how important good media is with this game. I used Verbatim dvd+r 4.7gb.

2. The ripkit. Just to clear up. The ripkit contains the following
The KIT folder. Which should contain the following files

X1.ims
X2.ims
X3.ims
X1.iml
X2.iml
X3.iml
Splitoff.exe
Makeppf3.exe
Iml2iso.exe
Go.bat (the most important file in the kit)
Gd3-iml2iso.exe
Dvd3t.ppf
Dvd2t.ppf
Dvd1t.ppf
Dummy
Check.ppf
Applyppf3.exe

The kit also contains two text files for the original tutorial. Handy to have for reference.

3. Apache 2
4. CD/DVD ROM Generator.
5. An awful lot of hard drive space. Anything less than 18-20 GB is a bad idea.
6. A hell of a lot of patience.

THE PROCESS

1. First thing to do is to extract the KIT folder and to keep things simple place it in the root of the c: drive.
2. Create an empty folder called XENO also in the root of the c: drive.
3. Open up apache 2. Open the xenosaga.iso file (or whatever you have it called)
On the left menu the CD icon will prob say no_label. Right click on that and select extract all. (NB: Isobuster is no good for this step, as it can’t see both layers.) you can extract to any folder you wish but ultimately the extracted files will need to be put in the XENO folder in the root of the c drive. This will take a while even with powerful machines but once the first lot of files are extracted, right click on the no_label icon and select switch layers. Right click on no_label again and select extract all and extract these files to same location.
4. Ok so once all the files have been extracted from the ISO. You need to place the extracted files in the XENO folder. Now if you extracted the files directly to this folder then when you open the folder you will see a sub-folder called No_Label with the files contained within. This is wrong. THERE CAN BE NO SUB-FODLER within XENO. Basically when you open XENO you only want to see all the extracted files Xenosaga1, Xenosaga2, etc.
5. Ok so the situation now should be in the root of the c: drive you have the KIT folder and the XENO folder with all the extracted files. Now open the KIT folder and double click the go.bat file. When the doss prompt appears just press any key. After a few minutes the iml2iso program pops up. Click on the button beside the IML file field, which currently says Test.IML. Browse to the KIT folder and select the x1.iml file. Then click start. Sit back while the program builds the disc 1 ISO.
6. Once the ISO has been built, click exit. The go.bat file will continue with the process. Pretty soon the iml2iso pops up again. Time to build the disc2 ISO. Like before select the iml file, which this time is x2.iml, and click start.
7. Once the disc 2 ISO is done click exit and the go.bat will do its thing and iml2iso pops up one last time. This bit is quicker as disc3 is only 2 gigs. Like before pick x3.iml and click start.
8. Once the disc3 ISO is complete click exit and go.bat finishes. What you should have now is the XENO folder will be exactly the same. The last steps in go.bat put all the files back as they were. In the KIT folder you should have 3 ISO files. X1.iso, x2.iso and x3.iso. X1 and x2 should be around 4.5 gigs and x3 around 2 gigs.
9. For me this is where the trouble began. The x1.iso, no matter how I burned it would not boot, but that’s not to say it won’t work for others. I am using swap magic 3.6, but people with HD advance and mod chips might have better luck. I never had trouble with x2.iso and x3.iso so I’m going to assume they work fine for others as well. And burning the ISO’s must be done with NERO and burned at 4x. And yes I tried other burners but NERO was the only thing that gave me something that would boot.
10. My advice to people is to start off and burn x1.iso using NERO and try and boot, even if you are using swap magic, different media and different ps2 versions will prob yield different results. If however you run in to the same trouble I did and the burned disc 1 only gives a black screen or boots to the main menu and when you try and start a game the game freezes, try the following.
11. Ok now like I said this is not guaranteed to work, its just what worked for me so I’m hoping it works for others. You should still have the XENO and KIT folders as they were. Start the process again by double clicking go.bat.
12. The important thing this time is when iml2iso pops up. Is to straight away close the go.bat do window and then close the iml2.iso window. The situation now is that the files in XENO are prepped for the disc1 build but you need to now use CD/dvd generator to do so.
13. Open CD/dvd gen., and create a new project. The difference with this build is we are going to use a different file tree to the one the kit provides. If you don’t know how to build an ISO with this prog refer to other guides, I’m not going to go into it. The files in the XENO folder need to be added to the project in the following order

IOP\ATAD.IRX
IOP\DEV9.IRX
IOP\HDD.IRX
IOP\IOPRP24D.IMG
IOP\LIBSD.IRX
IOP\MCMAN.IRX
IOP\MCSERV.IRX
IOP\PADMAN.IRX
IOP\PFS.IRX
IOP\RSSD.IRX
IOP\SIO2MAN.IRX
IOP\SSD.IRX
OV01.OVL
OV02.OVL
OV10.OVL
OV11.OVL
OV12.OVL
SLUS_204.69
SYSTEM.CNF
XENOSAGA.00
XENOSAGA.01
XENOSAGA.02
XENOSAGA.10
XENOSAGA.11
XENOSAGA.12
XENOSAGA.20
XENOSAGA.21
XENOSAGA.22
XENOSAGA.23
XENOSAGA.24

The critical things to note here is first the order SLUS_204.69 and SYSTEM.CNF
Some guides like the one on swapmagicfix.com have these the other way round with SYSTEM.CNF first but this does not work. Doing it with SLUS_204.69 is what got mine working so I suggest you keep it this way? Also make sure that files XENOSAGA.22, XENOSAGA.23, and XENOSAGA.24 are all dummy files meaning they are no more than 1kb in size. If one of them are not then something has gone wrong and you need to delete the contents of the XENO folder and extract the files from the ISO and start again. Under the volume tab in CD/dvd gen. put SLUS 20469 as the disc name. Producer should be PLAYSTATION and
License area America. Do the usual with CD/dvd gen. so it outputs the .001, .002 files etc. and like normal use dos to merge these to a single ISO (or use another program to build the ISO from the outputted .iml file). Burn the ISO with NERO and 4x and hopefully like me you now have a playable game.

NOTES.

1. First of all do not waste your time applying the patch on swapmagicfix.com for this game. It is not needed to boot and actually ruins a perfectly good ISO. My first bootable disc 1 had issues with sound and I applied this patch and it would no longer boot.
2. If you are running short on HD space then you can do this but it will take longer as you will need to do one ISO at a time, delete all the files and start again.
3. I know this is common sense but this process can get tricky so make sure to keep a backup of the original ISO file.
4. This Tutorial is written by me but without the makers of the ripkit and accompanying text files I never would have figured this out and so they deserve most of the credit.
5. If after following the above you are getting nowhere, in that not even the disc2 and disc3 ISO’s will boot I’m afraid I cant help you. I got mine to work simply through trial and error. Ill help if I can but if none of the discs boot you are prob out of luck.
6. If However you can get disc2 and disc3 to boot but no luck with disc1 then follow my example and keep trying different things. My working disc1 was burned 3 times with the same ISO and only the third one worked. I would suggest if your disc1 build gets as far as the menu at least, to try rebuilding the disc1 ISO using slight variations of the file tree and hope for the best. That’s what I did.
7. If you are one of the lucky ones to get the game working then the discs need to be swapped at the following points. Now I don’t mean literally swap, when you reach the following areas make sure to save and shut down the ps2 and boot the game with the next disc and continue.

Disc1 – Disc2. When you arrive at the dock colony for the first time. Save the game after the cutscenes take place and you are just about to leave the colony. Start playing off of disc 2 at this point. If you leave the dock colony while still using disc 1 the game will freeze as it cant find the next cutscene, as its on disc 2.

Disc2 – Disc 3. When you enter the Song of Nephilim, after an initial cutscene you reach a room with an elevator with explodable boxes, this is the point to change to disc 3.

8. The clever thing about the kit is it doesn’t split the whole the whole game into three parts, it just splits up the cutscenes. So there is a chance the swap points may vary slightly. Basically crashing or freezing before or during cutscenes is a sign to move on to the next disc.

9. Because this game was never designed to be played this way crashes are a possibility so I urge you to save often.


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