I cant get total overdose to work!! it just stays at the loading screen after the beginning cutscenes! I use: Swap magic 3.6 Sony dvd-r slim ps2 (v12) I even tryed rebuilding it! is there something i need to remove?
it needs rebuilding,otherwise it gets stuck on the first screen,(the one with the dog) use the nero method
i cant cuzz nero burning rom doesnt work for me, just nero express. i rebuilt it with cd dvd gen and it still froze.
someone who succesfully rebuilt this game,should post a step by step explanation how he did it,it would help out a lot of people,including myself,to rebuild it.I can't get it to work...Please someone,post this
It's not really that hard, and i did mine with Nero Burning Rom and it worked just fine. Just rebuild it and it WILL work Rebuilding an ISO If you have ISO Buster and Nero: by MinnWild at modchipzone Step 1. Decrypt the ps2 game to your hard drive using dvd decryptor. Step 2. Open up Isobuster and load in the image file. Step 3. Hold shift and highlight all the game files and put them in a folder. Step 4. Open up Nero burning rom and create a new UDF/ISO dvd (It's the last one in the list). Drop all the game files into Nero in the same order as it is listed in Isobuster. Just keep Isobuster open as a reference when you do this. Nero will change the order of the files graphically, however they burn in the order that you dropped them in. Step 5. Name the image and burn it at 4x. Step 6. Presto, you've rebuilt and burned a PS2 game. Play it. Note: Some games have dummy files in them.(ie. guilty gear, spider-man 2). They are used to beef up the size of the image and to copy-protect the game. Burning games with the dummy files left unchanged will result in a game that does not boot (using swap magic anyway). To remedy this annoyance follow these fun steps. Make sure you create an ISO for the game on your hard drive before you start using DVD Decrypter or other burning program. Also create a empty folder on your hard drive for the new files. Also keep ISO Buster open the whole time as you will need it for the last steps. Step 1. Open up ISO Buster and select-> File, Open Image, and then browse for the ISO you have created on your hard drive. Next click on the first file in the list on the right side of the screen, then hold down shift and click on the last file so that all of the files are highlighted. Continue to hold shift and right click on the highlighted area and select the Extract Objects option and then choose the folder on your hard drive to save it to. Step 2. Create a new text file. Open it and press the space bar once, then choose save as. Browse for the files you just extracted and click on one of the garbage files so it takes the same name. Then when it asks if you want to overwrite the existing file say YES. Repeat this for each Garbage or Dummy file. 4. Now that you have replaced them all you can use either Nero or CDVDGEN or another program (ISO Buster may have this option) to take those files and create a new ISO to burn. You must drop and drag the files into the program in the same order that they are in ISO Buster (this is why you kept it open) 5.Open up Nero burning rom and create a new UDF/ISO dvd (It's the last one in the list). Drop all the game files into Nero in the same order as it is listed in Isobuster. Nero will change the order of the files graphically, however they burn in the order that you dropped them in. 6. Now just burn the new ISO. With ISO Buster and CD/DVDGEN: From Afterdawn.com YOU MUST HAVE DVD Decrypter, CDVDGEN, AND ISOBUSTER INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER. 1) COPY THE PS2 GAME DVD TO YOUR HARD DRIVE AS AN ISO IMAGE. a)OPEN DVD Decrypter. b)IN THE DESTINATION AREA, CLICK ON THE FOLDER ICON TO CHOOSE BOTH A NAME AND A STORAGE LOCATION FOR THE ISO IMAGE. c)CLICK ON MODE > ISO > READ. d)CLICK ON THE DVD ICON TO START THE PROCESS. e)WAIT UNTIL THE PROCESS IS FINISHED THEN CLOSE DECRYPTER AND GO TO STEP 2. 2) EXTRACT THE FILES FROM THE ISO IMAGE. a) CREATE A NEW FOLDER ON YOUR HARD DRIVE TO STORE THE EXTRACTED FILES. b) OPEN ISO BUSTER AND CLICK ON FILE > OPEN IMAGE FILE. c) NAVIGATE TO THE ISO FILE CREATED IN STEP 1 AND CLICK ON “OPEN”. d) HOLD THE CONTROL KEY ON YOUR KEYBOARD AND LEFT CLICK EVERY FILE AND FOLDER IN THE LIST. e) ONCE ALL THE FILES ARE HIGHLIGHTED, RIGHT CLICK ON ONE OF THEM AND CLICK ON “EXTRACT OBJECTS”. f) NAVIGATE TO THE NEW FOLDER THAT YOU CREATED ON YOUR HARD DRIVE AND CLICK “OK”. g) WAIT FOR THE PROCESS TO FINISH THEN CLOSE ISOBUSTER. 3) CONVERT THE EXTRACTED FILES INTO 2 BIN FILES. a) OPEN CDVDGEN. b) SELECT “CREATE NEW PROJECT” AND THEN SELECT “DVD-ROM MASTER DISC”. DRAG CDVDGEN TO THE LEFT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN. c) NAVIGATE TO THE FOLDER THAT YOU CREATED ON YOUR HARD DRIVE BACK IN STEP 2 AND OPEN IT ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN. d) SET THE WIDTH OF THAT WINDOW SO THAT IT IS ONLY 1 FILE WIDE. THIS WILL PLACE THE FILES INTO THE SAME ORDER AS THEY WERE ON THE GAME DISK BUT YOU SHOULD CHECK THEM FOR CORRECT ORDER JUST IN CASE. e) CLICK ON EDIT > SELECT ALL. f) DRAG ALL THE FILES INTO THE RIGHT SIDE OF CDVDGEN. g) LOOK FOR A SLUS OR SLES FILE AND WRITE DOWN THE FULL NAME AND THEN CLICK ON THE “VOLUME” TAB IN CDVDGEN. h)TYPE SLUS OR SLES (WHICHEVER YOUR FILE NAME IS) INTO THE 1ST BOX NEAR "DISC NAME" i) TYPE ALL OF THE NUMBERS FROM YOUR FILE NAME, WITHOUT THE PERIOD, INTO THE 2ND BOX. j) TYPE PLAYSTATION FOR THE PRODUCER NAME AND SELECT THE APPROPRIATE LICENSE AREA. k)CLICK ON "REC...". l)SELECT YOUR DESIRED STORAGE LOCATION AND NAME THE FILE STAR.IML m)YOU WILL GET 2 ERRORS, JUST CLICK OK FOR BOTH. n)THE RECORDING SCREEN WILL POP UP, CLICK ON FILE > EXPORT IMAGE AND SAVE IT ON ONE OF YOUR HARD DRIVES (NOT IN A FOLDER) NAME IT STAR.LST o) WHEN IT'S FINISHED, YOU WILL HAVE 2 FILES NAMED STAR.000 AND STAR.001 p)CLOSE CDVDGEN AND GO TO STEP 4. 4) MERGE THE .000 AND .001 FILES INTO A SINGLE ISO IMAGE. THE EASIEST WAY TO MERGE THE FILES IS FROM A COMMAND SCREEN. YOU WON'T HAVE TO INSTALL AN EXTRA PROGRAM THAT MAY NEED EXTRA FILES TO WORK AND COME ON, ADMIT IT, DOS IS SO MUCH FUN!! a)CLICK THE WINDOWS START BUTTON AND CLICK ON RUN. b)TYPE CMD IN THE BOX AND HIT ENTER. c)CHANGE THE DIRECTORY TO MATCH WHERE YOUR STAR.000 AND STAR.001 FILES ARE STORED. EXAMPLE- IF THEY ARE ON THE C DRIVE, TYPE CD C:\ AND HIT ENTER. IF THEY ARE ON ANOTHER DRIVE, TYPE THE DRIVE LETTER WITH A COLON AND HIT ENTER. d)ONCE YOU HAVE THE CORRECT DIRECTORY- TYPE COPY/B STAR.000 + STAR.001 STAR.ISO AND THEN HIT ENTER. e)WHEN IT'S FINISHED YOU WILL HAVE A NEW ISO IMAGE NAMED STAR.ISO THAT YOU CAN NOW BURN IN STEP 5. 5) BURN THE NEW ISO IMAGE ONTO A BLANK DVD. USE YOUR FAVORITE DVD BURNING UTILITY TO BURN IT AT THE SLOWEST SPEED. CD/DVDGEN 1.start cdvdgen, click on create new project, ok, 2.choose dvd-rom master disc/ ok 3.go to your hard drive and create a folder that you will save some files in 4.when the window opens then open up ISO Buster 5.go to file, open image file, and browse for the ISO you want 6.once you have added the ISO the click on the first file in the list on the right side, then hold shift and click on the last file so that they are all highlighted 7.continue to hold shift key and right click on the highlighted area and choose extract objects and browse for the file you created to save them in. keep ISO buster open when it is done extracting because you will need it to see the correct file order. 8.drag and drop the files that you extracted to the right hand pane of the cdvdgen window in the same order that they were in, in isobuster, (note how the files in cdvdgen are in the same order as in isobuster) 9.then click the "volume" button and choose a licence area, and fill in the "disc name" with your disc id # (the SLUS and number that follows it), put playstation in the producer name and the disc id again in the "volume" part of the volume identifier. 10.now click the record button. 11.a window will pop up asking you for save details, fill them in as required and click on save, you will most likely get two error messages "the recording unit is not connected" & "initialization failed" 12.just click on ok on both of them, then the recording unit controller will pop up, go to file, choose export image 13.now fill in the save details again. 14.you will then have a "image creating" window and you will let it finish. Then you click ok 15.You now need to use the ISO Builder option to rebuild your ISO. click "files" and add any files that have the name you used to save and numbers that will be something like 000, 001 etc, but not any with iml, ims or lst. 16.then click on open. choose destination, put in the save details, then click on build. When this is done you will get a pop up telling you that your ISO has been built. 17.now you can burn your ISO known issues with cdvdgen: If you can not install cdvdgen because of a dos incompatability, you need to eitther search your hard drive for autoexec.nt, or get it from the web. if you get the error message "ASPI manager loading failed", you will need the file wnaspi.dll, again you will need to search for this file on your hard drive or get it from the web. both of these files need to be put in the system32 folder that is in the windows folder.
yea i couldnt use cd/dvd gen cuzz of that aspi error, but i fixed it so it should work, but i tryed rebuilding the game by exporting iml files and importing them to apache 2 and then building the iso, the game runs then freezes, ill try it just with cd/dvd gen and see if it works.
I tried rebuilding it but it doesn't even start! I just get the red screen saying insert a disc.. Can you give detailed instructions on how to do it? because I saw alot of options in nero, maybe I had to do something else.. need more detail please
steimy you mentioned games that have Garbage or Dummy file's need to be overwrtiten with a text file well i was wondering where would i find those Garbage or Dummy file's in most games folders ?
most games dont have them. and some that do actually have worse quality when you get rid of the dummy files, stuff like stuttering longer load times, and skipping can occur
most games do not have dummy or garbage files. to find them you would have to make an ISO file, then open it with ISO buster. As far as Total Overdose i can't see what the problem is. I simply rebuilt it with NERO BURNING ROM! notice that is not just Nero, it is a specific part of the program usually if you go Start(on pc)->all programs->->Nero->OEM that folder has Nero Burning Rom in it and you just start that and follow the few easy steps. I did that and it works just fine. Problems also may be cheap media, your PS2 doesn't like they type of medie (+R or -R), the speed you burned it at which should be half the speed rating on the blank dvd (burn 8X DVD's at 4X and so on)
I rebuilt Total Overdose using the =cd/dvdgen method and it came out fine. I always rebuild games using this method. I wouldn't use the nero method.
Complete User friendly GUIDE for rebuilding the easy way. No Extraction of files. if you have a virtual drive that is.. http://trading-post.sytes.net/forum/directions.php#howto3 Swap Magic 2.0 usable thanks to steimy for most of the directions. P.S Region files SLUS_###.## = USA SLES_###.## = PAL Make sure you have the right region before you start rebuilding the file and ripping it.
