Jolimule > Video Games > PS2 > DVD Multi Game
-
=== === === === === === === === === === === === === === ===
=== TUTORIAL - Multiple games on a DVD ==
=== === === === === === === === === ===
=== === === === ===
Note: Not all DVD Rips and CD games on DVD will work but there is a big chance
Method tested with Capcom VS SNK 2 (DVD) and Lego Star Wars (CD).
Result: Working fine.
Done by: JRLS
Date: 2nd of March 2004
Version: 1.2
Things that might be a problem:
- Same file names with differents games
- Games sharing the same folders
You will need:
• A couple of ISO’s or BIN/CUE files for each game you have that you want to put on a DVD. These games can be DVD games, DVD rips or CD games.
• ISO Buster for extracting files from the ISO or the BIN/CUE files
• CDLoader for creating a menu from where to choose what game to boot
• DVD Scanlite 3.7 by Sonix for putting DVD checks back into DVD rips and patching CD games
•
Sony CDVDGEN 1.5 for creating a bootable DVD
• DVD Decrypter for burning an image.
• (Optional: CDVDGEN ISOBuilder v1.2 by JRLS for merging the ISO parts.)
For this manual, we are going to put three games on a DVD. The following games I used are:
• Auto_Modellista_USA_PS2-CSiSO (DVD rip)
• Clock_Tower_3_USA_PS2-MIRACLE (DVD rip)
• Paris.Dakar.Rally.2.DVDRIP.PAL.PS2-ConFuSiON (DVD rip)
First, download CDLoader. Make sure you get the correct version of CDLoader that will boot on your PS2 console verson. I have a PS2 version 7 so i downloaded CDLoaderV7_b51. I've tried other versions of CDLoader before and the didn't boot so beware.
Unpack the CDLoader package and there will be a ISO in it, probably called "CDLOADER.ISO".
Start ISOBuster and open the CDLoader ISO. The follwing files will be in there:
Extract the following folder (and the files within that folder) and files to a separate folder on your hard drive. Don't choose a fancy folder name. CDVDGEN might be picky about space and long folder names. Keep it simple like "C:\CDLOADER\", not something like "C:\My Documents\My Disk\".
You can toss the other files not listed below. They are not really needed.
Now I load my first game in ISO Buster. I used "Auto_Modellista_USA_PS2-CSISO" wich is a DVDrip. If I load up the BIN/CUE file I get the following files:
Extract all the folders and files to your hard drive. Keep it simple like "C:\AM\"
Now I load my section game ISO in ISOBuster. I used "Clock_Tower_3_USA_PS2-MIRACLE" which is also a DVDrip. If I load up the BIN/CUE file I get the following files:
Again extract all the folders and files to your hard drive in a separate folder (not the same folder in which the previous game files were saved).
Again do the same thing for my last game "Paris.Dakar.Rally.2.DVDRIP.PAL.PS2-Confusion":
All three games have a file that will be executed when running the game. These are the SLUS and SLES files. In this case these are the files:
• Auto Modellista: SLUS_206.42
• Clock Tower 3: SLUS_206.33
• Paris Dakar Rally 2: SLES_508.79
(Some games don’t have SLUS or SLES files, but instead .ELF files.)
Now, browse with Windows Explorer to the folder where the files for the CDLoader ISO were saved and open up the “MSYSTEM” file using NotePad (or any other ASCII editor). Edit it, so every game has it’s menu item. This will be used to create a menu based on the games that you want to put in this DVD. If the DVD boots, a menu will appear and you can choose a game. Your “MSYSTEM” file should look like this:
Do not forget to add “;1” after each line and make sure you have exactly 10 menu items.
When finished, save this file.
In the case you are using one or more DVD rips (I’ve used three DVD rips), these DVD rips need to be patched by DVD Scan Lite also CD games put on DVD will need a patch. This (GREAT!) tool will add the DVD checks again that were removed and also patch CD games. If you don’t do that, these games sure will not boot. Full DVD games do not need to be patched, only DVD rips or CD games. I will show you how to patch Auto Modellista. The other ones go similar.
Run DVD Scanlite 3.7 and the following window appears:
If you want to put a DVD rip back on DVD, choose “Restore” to restore the DVD check that was removed earlier. If this game is a CD game, then choose “DVD” option. Then click on “Files > Open ” and browse to the folder of your first game (“Auto Modellista” in this case). You will have better chances if you scan all the files of each game but if you don't have the time, read the .PDF file include for the right files and wait for the program to patch the files (this might take a while on a slow computer. Just be patient if the application seems to hang. It will finish).
If successful, it will probably patch one location in this file (sometimes more)
Sometimes it is necessary to patch more than one file. In that case the SLUS or SLES file alone is not enough, If the game isn't working later, more files should be patched. The other files that need to be patched can be ELF files, .IRX files or IOPRP*.IMG files. If in doubt, scan all your files.
In this case, this one file is enough. Also it is known that some games cannot be patched correctly. In most cases these are DVDrip where something was added. For example: a PAL/NTSC selector, some trainer or an intro.
For the other two games files "SLUS_206.33" and "SLES_508.79" are the only files to patch and both are patched in exactly one location.
After your three games are patched, it is time to build the DVD.
Run CDVDGEN 1.5 and choose "Create new project" and "DVD-ROM Master Disc":
Open ISOBuster and load
your first game. Pay attention to the column with “LBA” values in it.
Some games have LBA checks in them, so they can only run properly when the files are in the same order as the image. To avoid this, make sure you add them into CDVDGEN in the same order, which is in ascending order of LBA values. In this case, the folder “MODULES” should go first, then the next one. The files within the folders should also maintain their order.
Make s ure the button “DIRECTORY” in CDVDGEN is clicked and that CDVDGEN is not maximized. With Windows Explorer (also not maximized) browse to your folder where the files of the first game were saved and drag and drop them into the right white pane of CDVDGEN. Drag and drop every file, EXCEPT the “SYSTEM” file. When the first game is done, it will look like this:
Do the same with the second game. Keep their LBA order and add them after the first game (Again don't drag the "SYSTEM" file). It will then look like this:
Now it's time for the last game, but we have a problem: The third game also has a folder called "IOP". This should not always be a problem if the files within "IOP" have different filenames in both games. In that case, you can drop the files from the folder "IOP" from the third game in the same folder and add them at the end. Files from both games will be in the same folder, but that should not always be a problem.
In CDVDGEN in the left panel, click on the "IOP" folder to get into the subfolder. Then drag your files from the third game into that folder. If done, the folder "IOP" will look like this:
Go up to the "Root" in the left panel again and then continue to drag all other files into CDVDGEN (Again do not drag the "SYSTEM" files and keep the right order). When done, it will look like this:
Note: There seems to be a limit of 30 files (folders not included) that can be in your root. If you have more than 30 files, this compilation won't work, so avoid this.
Next, click the "VOLUME" button to fill in some info about this disc.
For the disc name, it is said that it shouldmatch the executable that is on the disc. If it's not the same, the disc won't boot (you can rename the SLUS or SLES files in your compilation, but in that case you also have to change the Disc Name to match this. This may cause your game not to boot, since all kinds of checks may be in the game, so this is not recommender).
Our first executable is "SLUS_206.42", so your disc name will be "SLUS" for the first textbox and "20642" for the second textbox. (Just forget about the "_" and the ".", they can't be entered anyway).
Fill in your Volume name which can be anything as far as i know (I used "MULTI" and also choose a License Area (America for NTSC, Eupore for PAL, Japan for NTSC-J).
If done, you should really save this CDVDGEN project in "File > Save As". This will save a .ccz file. Now your project file is done, and it is time to write an image file. Click the "Record" button
and a window should pop up and ask you to save your .IML file. I saved it as "MULTI".This will create an .IML file and a .IMS file.
If you have a burner that is not compatiblewith CDVDGEN you might get some error message after this (I have a SONY DRU500A and i got some errors).
(Note: If your .IML file is saved, you can just exit CDVDGEN and use a program "IML2ISO.EXE" to convert this .IML (and .IMS) to an ISO file which can be burned. But beware: if your ISO is going to be bigger than 2GB, the ISO that is build by iml2iso will just get bigger and bigger and won't stop, since iml2iso suffers from the FAT32 2GB limit. This method will only work with small .IML files, so you'd better avoid this and just don't do it this way)
If you get the following error after saving:
then you are missing a file called "WNASPI32.DLL" in your windows system folder. It might be on your PC somewhere else. If so, just COPY it to your windows system folder (do not CUT and PASTE). If not, download it somewhere and put it in your windows system folder. This is usually “C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM” depending on your operating system. If the file is there, then close and restart CDVDGEN and reload your .ccz project and hit the Record button again (thank god you saved your .ccz project, right?)
After this, you shouldn’t see the “ASPI Manager loading failed.” error again, but you might see the following one, which should be ignored:
After this, this menu will pop up:
Choose "File > Export image"in this menu and choose a filename to save. Again, I used "MULTI" :
This will save an .LIST file. After that, the image starts creating:
Just wait a while until it's finished:
Click "OK" and then "QUIT".
Since my burner is not compatible, I must make the ISO manually. To do this, open up a DOS prompt and go to the folder where your .LST file was saved. In this folder you will find files like "MULTI.000", "MULTI.001", "MULTI.002", "MULTI.003", etc. if your .LST file was saved as "MULTI", otherwise, it will be the name you choose. All these files should be patched together. To do this, type the following depending on the name of your .LST file and the number of files you have (I got four files):
COPY/B MULTI.000 + MULTI.001 + MULTI.002 + MULTI.003 FINAL.ISO
This will patch all the files together to a new file called "FINAL.ISO".
Note: You can also use a small (only 56Kb) tool "CDVDGEN ISO Builder 1.0" which I made myself to build the ISO from the parts generated be CDVDGEN. It's doing the same thing, but it's a windows tool to make it easier (browsing to files, sorting them in the right order, etc)
Anyway, your ISO is finished, so open up DVD Decrypter to burn "FINAL.ISO" (or any other decent burning program) on a DD-R or even better on a DVD-RW (if your PS2 can read them) to test it out.
Pop it in your PS2 and hope for the best ! The games in this tutorial are tested and they work.
Alternative:
If you are lucky and have a burner that is compatible with CDVDGEN, then after cliking the "Record" button and saving your .IML file, you won't get any error message and you do not have to export your image, but you can click the
button straight away and your image will be burned immediately. Pop it in your PS2 and hope for the best!
===============
= END TUTORIAL =
===============