The Dedicated FreeMCboot thread + Installer requests

Post by **Pullmyfinger** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:58 pm

Mozgus wrote:Ok it doesn't work for me. It just sticks at a black screen when I boot. I can hear my tv changing resolutions about once per second. (yes my tv makes a very very soft noise when a console is changing resolutions.) Now I have to fix my card somehow.

So your mem card was busted? Was it a 3rd party card or a Sony one??

Post by **Mozgus** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:11 pm

Pullmyfinger wrote:
Mozgus wrote:Ok it doesn't work for me. It just sticks at a black screen when I boot. I can hear my tv changing resolutions about once per second. (yes my tv makes a very very soft noise when a console is changing resolutions.) Now I have to fix my card somehow.
So your mem card was busted? Was it a 3rd party card or a Sony one??

Official sony. The best I can do is erase the files that it created on it, paste back all my backup up save files, and hope they work. I am nervous knowing that this card is now flashed with some bullshit firmware forever. I believe I lost all the time stamps on the saves too, which means a lot of the games are going to have issues with their saves now.

Post by **Pullmyfinger** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:18 pm

OK, I have a PS2 with a swap disc but I don't think it lets me run stuff from USB, do I burn one of the .elf files to a DVD and then it will let me flash??

Post by **Mozgus** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:35 pm

Oh my god, wonderful. My card is definitely killed now. Its not detected by the ps2 or ule anymore. $25 wasted. It won't reflash anymore. The program just locks up.

Post by **kidsampson** » Tue May 20, 2008 9:23 pm

Can't you use mckiller to format it?

Post by **Mozgus** » Tue May 20, 2008 9:32 pm

I finally found AR Max Evo and fixed BOTH my god damn memory cards that this thing bricked. Yes both. It bricked my 1st card somehow even though I never flashed it. Its contagious or something. I just lost massive amounts of saves forever. AR was able to fix the cards though. Plus my god damn swap magic cd suddenly decides that today is a good day to stop reading 19 out of 20 boots. Wonderful. So it took a good hour just to boot AR Max, which for some reason happens to be an iso that cant be mounted to the hard drive because it's not a valid playstation game. FANCY THAT!

Guys stay the fuck away from this method. It's not worth the headache.

Post by **vlame** » Tue May 20, 2008 11:18 pm

Mozgus wrote:I finally found AR Max Evo and fixed BOTH my god damn memory cards that this thing bricked. Yes both. It bricked my 1st card somehow even though I never flashed it. Its contagious or something. I just lost massive amounts of saves forever. AR was able to fix the cards though. Plus my god damn swap magic cd suddenly decides that today is a good day to stop reading 19 out of 20 boots. Wonderful. So it took a good hour just to boot AR Max, which for some reason happens to be an iso that cant be mounted to the hard drive because it's not a valid playstation game. FANCY THAT!

Guys stay the fuck away from this method. It's not worth the headache.

jeez....

Post by **selfdestroyer** » Wed May 21, 2008 2:36 pm

wow.. I used a 8mb Sony memcard and it worked for me. I had a buddy's DUO modded slim make the memcard for me. It booted fine. Ill see if I can make a quick tutorial of what I did.

Post by **Mozgus** » Wed May 21, 2008 2:49 pm

selfdestroyer wrote:wow.. I used a 8mb Sony memcard and it worked for me. I had a buddy's DUO modded slim make the memcard for me. It booted fine. Ill see if I can make a quick tutorial of what I did.

I used an official 8mb too, and I tried v1.0 an v1.1. It just will not work on my v12 slim.

Post by **selfdestroyer** » Wed May 21, 2008 3:22 pm

I'll gather some more information for you when I get home from work and get back to you.