PS3 Compatibility List - PS2 on PS3

[mrjaredbeta]

Melty Blood: Actress Again (SLPM-55184)

3D 00 00 00 57 44 00 00 0A 00 00 00 01 00 00 00
88 47 23 00 68 2C 85 A4 68 2C 80 A4 00 00 00 00

Weird code to say the least...this game has been giving me such a headache the past few days. I am literally dying to get this game to work.

Anyways, this patch disables all icons/effects on the main intro screen. I have done around 20 tests with this and it has a 100% success rate to bypass the freeze. After lots of testing, I *think* the freeze is caused by too many effects and the game trying to keep every thing in 1:1 sync. If out of sync, the game freezes. I don't really understand why this game does this, but I am determined to fix it. The wiki says there are freezes in some dynamic stages, but I haven't encountered any yet. This is all I can do until I find someway to let the game run without relying so heavily on some type of sync mechanism.

Before and after pics are attached if you want to see what the config does.

 

[mrjaredbeta]

Does indeed still freeze on dynamic stages...

 

[sandungas]

The race starts with a video sequence. That video sequence runs 2-3 seconds, before it freezes the game. If you press X immediately, when the video sequence starts, you can skip the sequence and bypass the freeze and begin with the race.

However the game freezes after some seconds when you're in the race.

Hope I made it understandable.

Have you tryed a setting in ManaGunZ named "skip FMV" ?
As far i could understand, what this setting does is to disable MPEG codec internally, so the game doesnt displays any MPEG video

I dont really know if that "introduction" to the race is a video (or is made with the game engine on runtime in 3D)... so i dont know if it could help

 

[johnc123]

Have you tryed a setting in ManaGunZ named "skip FMV" ?
As far i could understand, what this setting does is to disable MPEG codec internally, so the game doesnt displays any MPEG video

I dont really know if that "introduction" to the race is a video (or is made with the game engine on runtime in 3D)... so i dont know if it could help

I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

 

[Rafael93a]

Hello friends, I share the config that works perfectly with Digimon Rumble Arena 2 NTSC, tested with hen 4.86, no more freezing in this game, need to decrypt to test in a CFW

 

[mrjaredbeta]

Nice find @Rafael93a! If it's the same as Spongebob's config, then unencrypted should be:

3D 00 00 00 57 44 00 00 15 00 00 00 04 00 00 00
00 00 00 00

The config should also work fine on PAL region as well.

 

[Rafael93a]

Nice find @Rafael93a! If it's the same as Spongebob's config, then unencrypted should be:

3D 00 00 00 57 44 00 00 15 00 00 00 04 00 00 00
00 00 00 00

The config should also work fine on PAL region as well.

I tested Sponge Bob config with PAL version, the game freeze on menu and when stay played any levels after minutes the game freeze, I have this config, and the game no more freeze and the game run flawless than NTSC, because NTSC have slow frames in any levels

 

[mrjaredbeta]

@Rafael93a So the Spongebob config doesn't work with it? Can you decrypt the config and post the decrypted one here?

Also, I have noticed that a lot of reports on the wiki are wrong and people are testing games without gx_emu/soft/any config. I had to correct Onimusha: Warlords and Ghost in the Shell because of this. There may be more, but those are the ones I saw off the bat.

 

[Rafael93a]

@mrjaredbeta This it the code for the config for PAL version Digimon Rumble Arena 2

50 53 32 00 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 01
32 50 30 30 30 31 2D 50 53 32 55 31 30 30 30 30
5F 30 30 2D 30 30 30 30 31 31 31 31 32 32 32 32
33 33 33 33 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
29 89 99 3F D4 F7 C7 25 7F F4 6E 6F CE 4F E6 92
C9 1A 4A EE 4A 89 2D B6 02 F0 64 51 FF 92 EB B6
99 01 A7 58 FB E0 CB 74 3D E5 A4 3A 7C 1E D5 1B
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 48

 

[mrjaredbeta]

Looks like it is still encrypted. Can you decrypt it using ps2classic gui?

 

[mrjaredbeta]

Alpine Racer 3 (SLPS-20181) WIP CONFIG

3D 00 00 00 57 44 00 00 0A 00 00 00 03 00 00 00
24 BA 12 00 20 9A 06 0C 00 00 00 00 00 46 13 00
40 CF 04 08 00 00 00 00 AC 7B 14 00 94 00 07 0C
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Fixes the black boxes making it completely playable. There are still some issues, like purple colors on the clouds and mountains, as well as some other graphical artifacts. I am still working out the other bugs...just sharing what I got so far. I know @NoSoul81 wanted this fix and possibly others.

 

[NoSoul81]

Nice, I did thank you. Now that leaves only 1 game I need a PS2 for Tales of Legendia lol.

 

[aldostools]

Looks like it is still encrypted. Can you decrypt it using ps2classic gui?

Digimon Rumble Arena 2 PAL - SLES_526.31.CONFIG

3D 00 00 00 89 3D 00 00 12 00 00 00 0D 00 00 00
00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 02 00 03 00 5F 01 00 00
8D BD 6F 2C 67 03 00 00 02 00 03 00 6B 01 00 00
31 35 70 E9 72 03 00 00 03 00 02 00 B8 9C 39 10
70 9D 39 10 00 00 00 00

 

[NoSoul81]

I'm used to using Managunz easy way to get configs, can someone remind me how to make these into a config? Paste them into a hex editor and save it the name of the game is that correct?

 

[aldostools]

I'm used to using Managunz easy way to get configs, can someone remind me how to make these into a config? Paste them into a hex editor and save it the name of the game is that correct?

Copy & paste the code in HxD. Save the file with the same name of the PS2ISO + .CONFIG

 

[mrjaredbeta]

So the Digimon config is using Primal's 0x12 command/parameters...that's interesting.

EDIT: And 24: The Game.

 

[NoSoul81]

Got it working, much better. I see what you mean by the purple, but it's playable.

 

[mrjaredbeta]

Alpine Racer 3 (SLPS-20181) WIP2 CONFIG

3D 00 00 00 57 44 00 00 0A 00 00 00 04 00 00 00
24 BA 12 00 20 9A 06 0C 00 00 00 00 00 46 13 00
40 CF 04 08 00 00 00 00 AC 7B 14 00 94 00 07 0C
00 00 00 00 50 6A 1A 00 FC 47 06 08 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00

@NoSoul81 This one fixes the purple. I'm gonna see if I can fix that checkpoint texture issue.

 

[NoSoul81]

Maybe I'm reaching here but Tales of Legendia is also Namco and has graphic issues, any chance? I'll have to put the game back on my PS3 and try with this config who knows but I think it's different it's cutscenes in Tales.

Alpine Racer 3 looking good, but I seem to be having a little bit of slowdown during some turns. Not always occasional.

Maybe no one cares but another game I mentioned before Galerians Ash I tried the Euro version and while it does still give black screen on some of the beginning cutscenes when you approach certain items at the very beginning of the game like the USA version but it does allow you to save unlike the USA version.

 

[mrjaredbeta]

Ah, thanks for the report. I noticed some slowdown on races with a lot of AI racers, but I only tested the first three tracks and not so much. Racing with just me or one other person gave me no slowdown.

Anyways, this config will not work on Tales of Legendia, but a config could possibly be made. I might look into that game if I have the chance. And Galerians has the same issues in pcsx2, so if a patch was made for that it will most likely fix it here too.