Final Fantasy 8 - black screen on start up

[forgethernot]

Final Fantasy VIII (8)
SLES-02080
PSX 1.13

BIOS - SCPH1002
Windows XP SP3
AMD Sempron 2600+ 1.83GHz, 1.00GB of RAM

So my problem is with FF8, I am playing the game from disc and whenever I go to load it the play-station symbol comes up and then it black screens forever, i know that others have had this problem before but the real big puzzler is that this game was working when I played it (on exactly the same system) about 3 months ago.

I have tried several different BIOS, I have tried different versions of the emulator and I even went through the gruelling task of using ePSXe just to check that it wasn't PSX specific all to no avail, and yes I am running the sub-coding on my DVDRW drive.

I really cant think what the problem is, please can someone help?

[tekhnolyze]

Have you tries SCPH1001? Thats the bios I use and FF8 works perfectly fine for me.

You mentioned you are playing it from a disc. You might try making an image from it instead. I've run into problems with games before that were solved like this.

[forgethernot]

Yeah I tried SCPH1001 and its still the same problem, I have thought about making a disk image but I have had heard that this can lead to loads of patching and other work arounds which I would like to avoid if I can.

I just don't get why it has suddenly stopped working when it worked so well before.

[forgethernot]

Well never mind, I made a cd image and it works now, thanks for the help