Simple Popstation GUI 2 help

J0e Musashi

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I've got the 3.03 OE-B firmware.

I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing with this. I've got Ridge Racer in the disc tray, but that's as far as I've got. It's the PSX Image File part I don't understand.
"Put a ISO, CUE, IMG or PBP file here. BIN and MDF are also accepted." I can browse the RR disc but I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking for.

I'd appreciate any help.
 

IoriYagami n8

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You can use the ISO features in ISO Buster free. Though it is a little odd if you haven't done it before.

Load ISO Buster, select the CD drive that contains the CD. It will display a listing of all the files.
Once done, it will show up on the side window with something like this
CD - Session 1 - Track 1 - SLUS-XXXXXX.
Don't worry about all that extra crap. Just click on the part that says "CD" at the very top.
Right click on "CD" and you will be given a list of options. The one you want is second from the top. "Extract CD <Image>" holding the mouse over this will open up sub options. From those sub options, choose "RAW (.bin, .iso)"
Now simply select the location you want the file to be found at, and type in a name for that file then save.
Once it is finished, you have a working BIN file.

Load your Popstation GUI, and find the BIN file.
Then simply load the settings you want. Game name and code (If all your games use the same code, they will use the same save file. Basically using the same memory card, it takes up less space on your stick, but isn't as easy to manage. You can't delete one file on the memory card, you have to delete them all. I prefer to simply have each game use it's own name and code that way I can manage the saves seperately in my PSP Menu).
After you have the games name and code loaded into the GUI, add in the appropriate pictures you would like to use for the save file image and background, even music or animated pictures. If you don't want to make some, you can likely find some others have made on the dcemu forums or other psp news/hacking site forums.
Once all those are loaded in as you like, you can click "Preview PHP" to see what it will look like when you go to load the game. Some Popstation GUI's have their own default images, if you don't want to use those images, unclick the boxes they are associated with.
Once you have everything in the GUI set the way you want it (Don't bother with compression, it's probably set to full already, if it isn't, go ahead and do that). Now simply tell it to go, and it will take your BIN file and turn it into a PHP file.

Your PHP file with full compression will be about 200 megs smaller than the original BIN file. Once this is done, simply place the PHP and KEY files into a folder such as RIDGERACER that is located within the PSP folder GAME. Test it out to make sure it loads up good and works. Once you see that it does work, you don't need the bin file anymore, you can delete it. I prefer to keep my PHP and KEY files in the named folders so that I can alternate between games at my leisure.

The ISO/BIN creation should be easy enough, doing all the GUI stuff and getting your custom pictures and such might be a bit tougher for you, if that is the case, just keep playing around. I made at least 10 images of SotN before I found the one that I really liked.
 

J0e Musashi

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Ok great, thanx a lot.

I get an unreadable sector message with the Ridge Racer Hi-Res disc though. "Sector 12 couldn't be read. Error: 03/11/00. I get the options to Omit Sector, Replave with all zeroes, Replace with User Data All zeroes, and Replace with Erroneous sector. What should I be doing here?
 

IoriYagami n8

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That one is new for me, so I can't really help I'm afraid. You can try to do it with UltraISO and see if it gives you the same issue. You can also just try to use each of those options and see if it works anyway. Simply let the ISO extract and then do a quick conversion to PHP using Popstation. Don't bother customizing too much, just do it for a test. If it works, you can always use the ISO that you built that worked and redo the PHP with the files and names you want. One of those options might work. But it also might just save more time to use UltraISO.

If it continues in other programs like UltraISO, try another CD Drive (if you have one). Maybe it's the drive you are using not picking up well. I can't use my DVD burner drive, it won't read any PSX games I put in it. I have to use my CD drive.

Outside of those few suggestions, I'm afraid there isn't much I can offer, maybe someone else can come in with more help, sorry.
 

J0e Musashi

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SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS!

I have EBOOT.PBP, and KEYS.BIN files in the GAME directory. I just get a black screen. I've used 4 different ISO making tools too. It's starting to drive me mad.
 

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J0e Musashi said:
SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS!

I have EBOOT.PBP, and KEYS.BIN files in the GAME directory. I just get a black screen. I've used 4 different ISO making tools too. It's starting to drive me mad.

if you happen to know the games id just make a folder with that id.

example: SUS13450
then drop your eboot.pbp and keys.bin in that folder

should work.

Just not sure if you really need to know the gameid.

what game is it again?
Ridge Racer US, JP, PAL?
 

J0e Musashi

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Within the GAME folder I have a "Ridge Racer Hi-Res" folder. I drop the 2 files into that, and get a black screen every time.
 

IoriYagami n8

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I got this with Nero when I first tried it. The ISO wasn't built properly. Since you say you tried four of them, I'm not sure what to tell you. What kind of settings, what four applications did you try?

Try using this application. I don't care for it as much as some others out there, but it is the only Windows compatable popstation gui out there that I know of that will allow you to go from the disc directly to php without the need for making a disc image. You can just drag and drop everything. Just read the info on the page and play around.

http://pspupdates.qj.net/One-more-PopStation-GUI-Dr-POP/pg/49/aid/79521

If the game still only gives a black screen after using this, it might be that the high resolution version of RR doesn't work. While most games will work even if not perfectly, there are a few that simply don't work at all. Oh, and don't put spaces in your PSP folder names. So rather than "ridge racer high res" name the folder something like "RIDGERACER" or "RIDGERACERHR"
 
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