Beating Psycho Mantis in Popstation.....HOW IN THE BLUE HELL??? :S

[S34MU5]

I think you can swap discs using CWcheat... ima gona looksy into it

[althena77]

CWcheat allows you to export your save game in a format that is compatible to emulators on the PC such as ePSXe. You can play the game on the PC with this emulator from the last save game on the PSP you made on the first disc until the first opportunity to save on the second disc. Then you can import the save game again with CWcheat and continue the game on the PSP.

Not the easiest way to make a disc swap and this also means that you can't play the game completely on the PSP but right now the only way to make the disc swap in games that won't let you save at the end of a disc.

[the_eternal_dark]

Or just use popstation and have the same disk ID (ex slus93000) for both disks and the final save from disk 1 will work to load disk 2, you just have to go back to the XMB and play disk 2 then load the save.

[althena77]

Or just use popstation and have the same disk ID (ex slus93000) for both disks and the final save from disk 1 will work to load disk 2, you just have to go back to the XMB and play disk 2 then load the save.

No, this will NOT work for every game, please don't give people wrong hopes and make sure you understand the problem we are talking about, it was discussed before here often.

I have said this here many times before, but ok; one more time:

There two kind of ways a disc swap was performed on a real PSX:

1. There are games that let you save exactly the moment the first disc is finished and show you a message like "Save progress before changing disc?"
(Grandia, Final Fantasy 7 for example). Save the game and you are fine, exit it after that and load the next disc and it will recognize the save game from the first disc, when it has the same Save ID.

HOWEVER:

2. There are games that WON'T let you save at the end of a disc and you just had to swap the discs on a real PSX (Thousand Arms, Chrono Cross and Metal Gear Solid for example). The problem is here on the PSP, that Popstation doesn't support a disc swap right now without exiting the game. You must exit the game and load the next disc. This is the same as turning off your console when playing the game on a real PSX and you lose the progress from the last save game on the first disc until the end of it. When you put in the next disc and turn on your PSX again it will tell you again to finish disc 1 first. The same will happen when exiting the game and loading the next disc on a PSP, the same Save ID doesn't help here too.
The only way to continue the game on the PSP right now is the one with CWcheats I described above.

[dejkirkby]

I'll upload a save made at the exact point of starting the 2nd disc. to stop the bickering.

Attachment 15106

[krazykarl]

that save isnt really good. I get onto the elevator but always loose because I dont have enough rations (only 2) and almost no ammo (25 socom bullets).

Does anyone have a legit save game that they could send me? dejkirkby's looks like it is just a pure hack

ps: the new psx emu on fw 3.10 oe-a has a option for changing the controller port

[althena77]

ps: the new psx emu on fw 3.10 oe-a has a option for changing the controller port

Cool finding, didn't notice that yet, guess that will make many people playing MGS happy when fighting Psycho Mantis :thumbup:

Now I just hope that Sony will also include an option to change the disc. Wonderif we will ever see something like this or if they just change the game to one big disc.

[krazykarl]

yea, i was kinda mad b/c I'd spent so long trying to beat him w/o the other controller port.

[keefurxxcore]

im at the end of the first disc and i don't know what to do... how do i save? and would it work if i just combined the iso from disc one and disc two and combine them?

[IndianCheese]

3.10 OE-A supports multiple controller ports. Just press HOME while in game, then go to Settings.