Final Fantasy 8 Problem?

[travy92]

Hello, sometimes when i play Final Fantasy 8 and change screens the command prompt thing that opens with psxfin.exe comes up with text saying "read without driver" and just repeats it on and on.

CD BIOS: SLES-02080 PAL
BIOS: SCPH1001.bin
OS: Windows Vista 32Bit
Disk image: .CCD
Psx Version: 1.13

I used Alcohol 120% to make the CD Image.

Is this a known problem or something only happening to me?
Maybe some protection thing?

[patrickp]

This game is copy protected, travy92, so care needs to be taken in ripping it. Two important points are that your drive should be capable of reading the subcode on a CD (-RW drives are generally better at this than -ROM drives) and you shouldn't rip at high speed: not more than 1/2 the maximum read speed of the drive.

Will the game play Ok from the CD in the drive you used to rip your images?

You should have 3 files: the .ccd one, the .img one and the .sub one; these all need to be present on the folder you're playing from, and it may be useful to have these files in a folder with nothing else in it; i.e. have a subfolder for each disc. Start the game by selecting the .ccd file rather than the .img image file.

I'll do a checksum of my Final Fantasy VII images (same version as yours) tomorrow and post the results for you to compare; I don't have time today.

[travy92]

May 26, 2008 10:11:06 GMT -5 patrickp said:

This game is copy protected, travy92, so care needs to be taken in ripping it. Two important points are that your drive should be capable of reading the subcode on a CD (-RW drives are generally better at this than -ROM drives) and you shouldn't rip at high speed: not more than 1/2 the maximum read speed of the drive.

Will the game play Ok from the CD in the drive you used to rip your images?

You should have 3 files: the .ccd one, the .img one and the .sub one; these all need to be present on the folder you're playing from, and it may be useful to have these files in a folder with nothing else in it; i.e. have a subfolder for each disc. Start the game by selecting the .ccd file rather than the .img image file.

I'll do a checksum of my Final Fantasy VII images (same version as yours) tomorrow and post the results for you to compare; I don't have time today.

Hmm, i'm not sure what you mean by "Your drive should be capable of reading the subcode on a CD"..

When i insert the disk into the CD Drive, the folder has nothing in it ("F:\" folder). So when i go into PsX v1.13 and click "File>Open Insert CD Drive" and select my CD, nothing happens! The game just turns black and stays like that for... ever.

Also i have the .img and the .sub already in the same folder as the .ccd one .

I'll also try ripping the game again because i used max speed the last time :S.

[patrickp]

Not all drives can successfully read the subcode on a CD, travy92. In addition, in Windows, the system IOControl driver doesn't seem to permit reading subcode; you need to use a different driver, such as ASPI, to enable subcode reads even with a drive that is capable of reading subcode.

Image ripping applications meant for ripping games (such as CloneCD or Alcohol) should use their own drivers for ripping, so this gets round the Windows driver problem if your drive is capable of reading subcode; however, many other ripping applications do not.

Anyway, as promised, here's the MD5SUMS for my images ripped from Final Fantasy VIII (with CloneCD): check them against your own:

SLES-02080

81757b4d993c141597383136beab3164 FFVIIId1.img


SLES-12080

896c78acea25074b3e28570726990625 FFVIIId2.img


SLES-22080

dabd250d44fcde80777f27f9be8aab79 FFVIIId3.img


SLES-32080

7799eafe704cf74214a3ad96bce3e20e FFVIIId4.img