Final Fantasy VIII (8) Mega Compatibility Technique Thread Type X50388

[ScaryBugThing]

As has been mentioned earlier, I have FFVIII (US/NTSC) crashing in the middle of the Dollett Comm. Tower boss fight as well. I can get past Wedge and Biggs, and usually pretty far into the fight, but then it just hangs. Typically the "Home" button still works, so I can quit the game, but it won't let me do anything else. I haven't tried without Drawing, simply because I am a spell $#@! I'll try that out later. Also, not FF, but a Squaresoft game also, is Front Mission 3 (US/NTSC) crashing randomly. I was in the middle of the second battle (not counting the tutorial, the battle in the Yokosuka base when you find out about the big explosive device) and it just hung, except the Home button didn't work either. Not sure they're related, but they *are* both Squaresoft games, so who knows? I am using 3.40 OE with no special customizations except for having turned off the logo in the recovery console, but it did the same thing before turning it off, so I don't think thats the problem. The eboots are from 3.03 (if I remember right...) so I am going to try to get my originals out again and rip them and redo the eboots. Any suggestions would be great, as I a) love this game and b) really am too impatient to move saves back and forth between ePSXe to complete it Thanks!

Hey--thanks for the update. I guess that gives us a pretty strong indication that it isn't fixed in 3.40 OE-A.

As to getting around it--like I said, I'm on Disc 3, and I draw all the time. That said, I've never used spells much before when I played the game the last time, and when I found out that spells, especially in combination with drawing, are the main cause of crashes--well, I just stopped completely.

I still draw tons and have plenty of magic to junction, but I don't actually use spells unless it's absolutely necessary. I do not think you can play the game on the PSP right now if you insist on using spells.

If you insist on using spells, I'd just stick with ePSXe or the native PC version... I admit, it's a lot nicer to never have to worry about freezes, but I'm lazy and like to lie around playing however. (Maybe I should try playing on the PC again, now that we can use wireless XBOX360 controllers, so there's a nice way to play without being tied to the damned screen, but that's getting a littttttle off topic! )

@TwistedHope: Glad it helped--yeah, the NORG battle is, I think, impossible to get past. He always uses a game-freezer before you can kill him, and I think FF8 bosses scale with your level ups, so you probably couldn't even get really powerful and steamroll him...

[bknewtype]

i am having trouble with the sourceress battle on disk 2. after beating seifer i have to face edea, some times i get lucky and survive the malstron, but everytime she cast blizzaga, the game freezes. its almost consistent, and i dont see how i can get pass the battle without her casting any magic. so now im stuck on this part cause it constantly freezes ;[
i am noob to the whole upload save game play it on comp and send the save abck to my psp thing. im running the 3.10 firmware. can someone giv me a breif guide as to how i can do the save thing on computer? thank you for you help.

[ScaryBugThing]

i am having trouble with the sourceress battle on disk 2. after beating seifer i have to face edea, some times i get lucky and survive the malstron, but everytime she cast blizzaga, the game freezes. its almost consistent, and i dont see how i can get pass the battle without her casting any magic. so now im stuck on this part cause it constantly freezes ;[
i am noob to the whole upload save game play it on comp and send the save abck to my psp thing. im running the 3.10 firmware. can someone giv me a breif guide as to how i can do the save thing on computer? thank you for you help.

Hey, I'll try, although I haven't had to set up in awhile so this is from memory and may not be totally right:

1. Download CWCheatPops. (This is the step most likely to go wrong--It seems like the site says this version will work on 3.10 OE-A, but I'm not sure--when I set up the first time, the plugin was specifically for 3.10 OE-A. If you can't get it to work, look on the main CWCheat site for it)

2. Put the .prx file in [root]\seplugins\.

3. Hold down "R" when you turn on your PSP to access the boot menu. Find the .prx in Plugins, and make sure it is enabled. Save and Exit.

4. Start your game. After the actual game starts (i.e., when you're sure it has booted, like during the opening credits), hold down Select for about 3 seconds to access the CWCheat menu.

5. Go to "Save Memory Card" or something like that. It will dump a .mcr file of the virtual Pops memory card on your actual memory card, somewhere I believe in the seplugins directory.

6. Transfer that .mcr file to your computer. You can now play it in ePSXe by linking that .mcr from the memory card options.

7. When you are ready to transfer it back, put it IN THE SAME DIRECTORY WITH THE SAME FILENAME as where you got it on your PSP memory card.

8. Load your game and go to the CWCheat menu during the opening credits.

9. 'Load Memory Card' or something like that. Make sure the filename is the same. If you've done everything correctly, you should see an "OK" or something to indicate it's been correctly loaded. If it wasn't loaded, you'll see a load failure message.

10. When you access the memory card within the game, your new save files should be there. Make sure you save again inside the game to write your new save to the PSP's virtual memory card.

That's basically it. There are ways you can work with things more, but I tried to keep it simple. Hope it helps.

[Rand]

Hi Everybody!

Sorry for my english I'm not very good in writeing but I would like to share some experience what I get about freezeing spots in this game. I useing Firmware 3.03 OE-C. Now I'm now in disk 3 without useing the CWCheat trick. I played the game useing the smallest screen size beacuse I noticed with that less feeze. On disc one: I played a lot of card game to get very usefull spells early in the game like curaga, regen, demi, quake, tornado, ect... they are very good to junction. So about freezeing spots: Doilet commonitation center summon, summon, summon... if you are kill the enemies quick you have biger chance to pass this part. I defeat Diablos 2. try just useing GF summon(I don't even boost them). Don't bother with healing just keep summoning. Same Brothers just useing GF summon. I get pass the lizard's easyley: Before encounter them I kill Irvine beacuse if you fight aganist them alone they don't use any magic, just attack. So I can draw carbunkle and kill them with a single GF summon. There is a saveing spot and next to it a sewer climb down and there you can kill Irvine. On disc two I get Tonberry GF pretty hard(it last me 4 day's to get the methold): To get it you will need two ability Mad rush and Recovery. First I switch my party to Irvine and Quistis beacuse I don't use them to much and they level is low(My prefered party is: Squall (255%hit), Zell(high srt beacuse I give him Ifrit and useing srt bonus), and Selphie( full-cure limit brake)). But now useing Quistis, and Irvine beacuse they are at low level so the Tonbery's is at low level(lower HP). Let's start killing some Tonbery's without a looseing any HP. When the battle begins wait until the Tonbery step forward 2 times, when he start the second step quickly use Mad Rush. Why? After 2. step he will not attack you until he reach you and beacuse of the Mad Rush you get berserk, haste, and protect, they never reach me. Be careful after you defeat the 17th Tonbery. From now wait the two steps then start attacking, only attack nothing else. When Tonbery King came out keep attacking him, again just attack. If you need healing use Recovery it will restore all your HP. Now lets see that cursed NORG. Belive me or not I defeat him at FIRST TIME. No freeze here for me. Again I use GF summon only. When the pod opend I draw leviathan after that I use summon. He use the Psyho Blast against me 2 times but the game doesn't freeze. You can imagine my suprise. And the last battle in Disc two against the sorceress this was the easyest: she is week aganist sleep. So junction 100 sleep everyone Status attack. She will sleep the whole battle.
I hope you find usefull thoes infomations.

[thavagrant]

There has been found a new and simple way to solve the crash problems.
Just change the game id into SLPS-01222 and it'll be 100% crash free. The downside is that it will have slowdowns at start of battles and when entering areas. Nevertheless this is definatly worth it.

[khoadphamm]

how do i change the games id? you mean the savedata folder? or what.. sorry if its a noob question lol

[Rand]

Don't bother with it this method is useless. I try it but still freez for me.

[BurningRage]

that method isn't useless, the number of crashes is reduced by a biiiiiiiig amount

[TRiPpS]

May 11th, 2007 03:49
thavagrant There has been found a new and simple way to solve the crash problems.
Just change the game id into SLPS-01222 and it'll be 100% crash free. The downside is that it will have slowdowns at start of battles and when entering areas. Nevertheless this is definatly worth it.

k questions.... what FW are you using? what popstation are you using? what did you rip the cd with? I'd appreciate this info I gave up on this monthes ago cause of college and stuff but would like something to do at work LOL thank you in advance!!

[thavagrant]

i'm just using the latest OE of dark alex: 3.40
But thats not really the point lol, not even how you rip it, its just that you have to change the game id into SLPS-01222. you can simply do this by using: psx2psp popstation gui.
ill even give you the dl link: http://dl.qj.net/dl.php?fid=12982
And this methode is defintatly not useless. The number of crashes are minimum, if not non excisting.