Master Dex

Why would you build a city in the leg? The Leg is supposed to be a giant engine isn't it.. I figured the engine block was closer to the leg than the middle or anything. I just assumed the city was somewhere in the middle. That also makes me thing.. that city must have had some good leak protection for all those times the SDF-1 was submerged in the ocean after its return to Earth, considering the leg was completely underwater.

So, in other words, whatever those spiky things are, chances are good that Kaifun's complaining about them and wants them taken off, right?

More than likely, how the citizens of Macross 11 haven't rioted and had him burned at the steak I cannot imagine.

It's an all in one tutorial, cd to dvd, patching, etc. SDF Macross is 1.14gb, so even though it is DVD, you still need to add in a dummy file (provided in the tutorial) to go over the 1.4 gb limit.

About the PS1 exploit, you do need some way to get the files onto the memory card.

When I skimmed the tutorial on the PS1 exploit it seemed as if I would be able to figure it out in some way.. I may have to read it again. I haven't gone buying anything yet so I have a lot of time to figure it all out.

Alright! Both parts are up, use winRAR to extract (two parts one file):

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AHNTF55K

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FHLA5QP3

Enjoy!

[edit]Also found my swapmagic cd this morning

Good to hear, hopefully that can enable you to re-mod your PS2 now. I'm going to just try purchasing an Action Replay Max Evo set right form their site... it should have the media player but I cannot tell. If not then that link you gave me has an option to use ARMAX without the media player by using a PS1 game exploit... I have some friends with a few PS1 games I can borrow (hope it has media player though, that is much easier).

Thanks for the files as well.. that link from before is how to patch it with memento and stuff right, not changing from a CD to DVD (which is what you originally has mentioned before realizing that isn't necessary)?

Don't let what a lot of people say fool you, Keith is right, Mac7 is a great show. You just got to give it a try with an open mind while knowing that it isn't supposed to be like the other Macross shows, but a show about a rock band with mecha action mixed into it. I for one became an official Fire Bomber fan thanks to this show.

BOMBAA!!

ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!

Goddamn myself!!! I accidentally erased my free McBoot from my mem card while trying to upgrade to a newer version! But that's not the kicker! My PS2 has begun making odd noises AND I lost my Swapmagic CD!!! Triple whammy!

Now I don't even know if the games I patch will work or not

Heck, I don't even know if the Macross game I just burned work...

Well, if you guys want, I can just upload the game, as is, in its original form. No dummy file, no patches. The tutorial is laid out pretty much, it isn't really that hard...

I might see if I left my swapmagic cd at my cousin's house. Hopefully that's the case... Geez.. first, my monitor's base broke; second, Fry's refuses to fix it; third, my brother dropped our digital camera; and finally, now this...

So anyway, ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!! :cry:

Ouch, sorry to hear all that.

As for the game, well I assume that link you gave earlier shows how to patch the game iso with memento and all the stuff it needed so I should be able to work it. Unless you think the patched copy you made seems good enough.

Windows doesn't have an integrated image burner. You're gonna need something else.

I use Nero, because it was free with my writer. Or my motherboard.

Maybe both. Several somethings came with it.

Noted, I'll do a search for Nero or other burning applications that can burn iso's to a DVD.

I'm not entirely sure which is overall better on the PS2, but I used Sony's DVD+R and it works pretty darn well. Either disc should be fine, I don't even know why they want to keep both formats...

And don't forget to burn at lowest speed.

Then I'll just stick with the DVD-R since I've been using it, although I might have to get a new set so maybe +R will due fine.

I just hope I can figure out how to burn at lowest speed, the only way I know of burning discs with with some windows utility. I don't have any specific program to do it but I know I can do it with windows in some way (I've burned episodes of Macross Frontier to DVD-Rs using Windows DVD maker, but I figure I'd burn the iso files differently, I am sure there is a way to do that) so I'm not worried about that.

Out of curiosity when it comes to burning the patched iso of the game you'll be giving me, does it matter to what type of DVD it is burned? Like will the PS2 (or ESR) play all types or does it have to be DVD-R, DVD+R, or both? I have the ability to burn any type so it is only an issue of which type is needed to be able to play it.

Ah, many tutorials for many things... that could prove useful, thanks again.

My only problem now is although I can find copies of ARMAX almost anywhere I can't verify that any of them have this max media player the video says it needs to have. The video says some copies don't have the player and it is essential. I found one possible site that may have the right version of ARMAX but I am really not sure... This could make things difficult.

Very well then, I thank you for expending your patience on my desire to play this very beautiful looking game.

In that case I'll stick with the idea of getting a fat PS2, that way I shouldn't have any problems.

As with the game, if it is too much trouble to send the file in another way I can't ask you to do so. I don't know how soon I will be doing this whole thing anyway so maybe waiting until I can torrent download it will work. However I cannot say for sure. Right now I might decide to wait on doing a project like this so it doesn't interfere with my school work and all. I also need to give my bank account a rest since I just ordered my first ever yamato valk (which I plan to pretty much be the only one I may ever get due to their expense), a 1/48 VF-1J Max which costs a sum as you can imagine (even though it hasn't been shipped yet sadly so I haven't actually been charged yet). So due to that I may wait before I go buying a PS2 and ARMAX to do all this.

Of course there is always the possibility I may find a way to make this work sooner but my point is I am in no obsessive hurry so if it is a pain to split that file up for megaupload then I don't think I should ask you to do that.

However I have to say I do very much appreciate all the help you have been in helping me to understand this process.

By "backup" I mean quite literally a copied game. You would need ESR to play the game, which is provided in the links in the youtube link (or this link should have everything you need, you can grab any updated versions from the PSX-Scene forums).

Also I made a mistake, SDF Macross is a DVD game. I do not know the actual size of the actual original game since my *ahem* copy is dummycut, so it's smaller than 1.2GB. ESR requires games to be at least 1.4GB big in order to run correctly. Also what I meant by "imported games may not run on ESR" is that ESR requires the games be patched with Memento in order to play... and memento only patches ISO files, so you can't use the original game disc to play, but you can use a copy of it to play...

Also if you are intending to buy the game, chances are it will probably be bigger than 1.4GB, so all you need to do is make an ISO of the game, patch it with memento, and burn it.

With that said, after skimming the forum rules, I saw nothing against this....... but I do have a copy of SDF Macross that I need to convert for myself again... if you want, I could try and upload the patched copy for you?

Also, are you looking to get a fat PS2 or a slim PS2?

If forum rules allow I would very much appreciate a copy of the game. If it is through torrent though I may not be able to recieve for a while (a month or so) since my college's internet blocks torrents (they download at a trickle) and it will be a month at least before I go home again. If another means of getting it then there shouldn't be a problem though. It would probably make everything easier (and less expensive), I assume you mean what you'd give me is already set to go.

I was thinking an old fat however after looking up used prices the difference between the two is only about $10 in some places. Do you think it makes a difference? I was just going to go with the cheapest.

Well perhaps it isn't as hard, the video seems to make it easy if your using ARMAX, and since I found that for about $45 and the swapmagic thing was $40, I can see me just going for ARMAX since the video made it look simpler enough. I can get a PS2 easily enough I've seen and I have some credit with gamestop so a used one wouldn't run me much.

So after free mcboot is installed all I would have to do is then achieve a copy of SDF Macross and then convert it from a CD to a DVD in order for the modded PS2 to play it? I saw you provided a link for that so I bet I could figure it out. I am just making sure that that would be all I needed to do after free mcboot is installed and all that. I notice you mentioned the program plays backups but you aren't sure on imports... does that mean having a copy of the game might not be the best way to go or am I not understanding what a backup is in this case?

If I remember correctly, basically the reason why copied/backup games are different from the original PS2 games is that the original discs were specially pressed at the factory, without that physical "code" imprinted onto each disc, the PS2 refuses to play it. This is where swapmagic CDs/DVDs come in, since they are (surprisingly) specially pressed. You use swapmagic in conjunction with a slidecard or fliptop (for the old fat PS2 or for the new slim PS2), let it load and then swap discs using either of those two methods when prompted. Play.

You can't swap discs conventionally with the eject button because the system will detect the new disc, you use the slide card or fliptop to manually "eject" the disc in order to play. Swapmagic method tricks the system into thinking that the replaced copy is an actual game. Either swapmagic combo will cost about $40 or less.

But the thing is, you really don't need Free McBoot or all those softmods if you plan to buy the swapmagic combos. The reason why I installed the free mcboot was because my PS2 laser has been slowly going down the crapper and that I can't leave it disassembled all the time (no fliptop and slide card can actually damage the system). My friend just gave me his extra copy of Swapmagic too so the only thing I spent money on was a spare memory card.

Action Replay Max usually cost as much as or more than an actual PS2 game.

Also, cheapest way to softmod is find a friend who has a soft/modded PS2 to help you

Not likely I know anyone in person who has ever modded a PS2 so no luck for me there. I wouldn't be against getting ARMAX since I don't know enough about PS2s to go about opening them up and all that, especially since it doesn't seem to cost much more than the swapmagic sets there. Also I am not entirely sure I understand what you did differently than the method with ARMAX, I understand you had something on these swapmagic cds and you had to manually switch it out for another cd but I don't quite get how this does the same job as the ARMAX which from the video is just used to run the free mcboot installer from the flash drive. I'm just not video game hardware savvy I guess.

Another thing I am fuzzy on is what free mcboot does that allows you to play japanese games. I know the ARMAX can let you play other region DVDs but if that includes games then I don't see why free mcboot is even needed.

Times like this I like the simplicity of Nintendo, had the game been on gamecube I could just pop in a freeloader disc and swap it with the game. Alas things aren't as simple for Sony it seems.

@Master_Dex:

Sorry about that, I guess I wasn't really specific... Free McBoot is pretty much a PS2 bootup program that launches whatever homebrew and other PS2 programs from the Memory card the moment the system is turned on--Hence, why I threw in Memor32 as in it is one of many means to get those said programs onto a memory card, not exactly the cheapest solution though but one of the simpler solutions in my mind.

Here's a tutorial that does a better job than me trying to explain it:

^this is only but one of several methods to install ELFs onto a PS2 memory card.

I took a different approach to installing it since ARMAX is a bit pricey for me...

I pretty burned uLaunchElf and other programs like ESR and HD Loader onto a cd and used a swapmagic cd my friend gave to me. Of course I had to open my old fat PS2 for the time during the installation.

Also, the program ESR will play most backups (not sure about imports) and will certainly play SDF Macross. It works pretty smoothly on my PS2.

There's a hitch though, ESR only detects and plays DVD discs and SDF Macross is a CD-ROM game. You have to go through a tedious process of converting the CD into a DVD in order for the PS2 to detect the game, a pain in the butt sometimes. Here's a tutorial on how to convert CD games to DVD games.

Hmm... sounds like too much trouble to play one game... especially since I'd have to actually get a PS2 (granted they aren't that expensive now). All in all this seems expensive as well as difficult. I really would like to play this game though. Sounds like the simplest solution is getting a Japanese PS2... but I have doubts that that is any easier for some reason...

EDIT: Well I actually looked at the video you linked too and truthfully I have to say that doesn't look too difficult. I can get a PS2 for as low as $59 used, and flash drives aren't hard to come by. However I am curious as to how much ARMAX costs because I might want to try another method like yours if it is too pricey. To elaborate on your method of installation, what is the swapmagic cd and why did you burn things onto a cd instead of using a flash drive?

Wow, this thread makes hacking the PSP seem alot harder than it really is, but then again the risk of bricking is still there and it is somewhat difficult to find/follow what you need for the PSP...

Anyway, PS1 and PS2 games are region locked on the PS3 sadly. Just wait for those amazing hackers to get it to work.

There is a PS2 emulator, not perfect, but works extremely well. Of course you need helluva of a powerhouse computer to run PS2 game smoothly. I think the emulator is called PCSX2 or something like that. Also, it is now much easier than ever to mod a ps2, look up free mcboot and/or memor32.

I was intrigued by the idea of modding a PS2 to play Japanese games but I looked at those two things you mentioned and I have no idea what the hell is going on with those things or how they would help me do anything. Mostly the first one, I just couldn't understand anything people were talking about related to free mcboot.. as for the other, just sounds like some kind of save file utility and that helps me not. I don't know that much about all this stuff at all.. I am just curious if there was a way I could play that one game.. but it looks like a Japanese PS2 might be the simplest solution... even though I don't like that idea.

I also think a lot of people are putting a lot of literal weight and absolute truth into the final rant of an insane and obsessive villain. It's certainly reasonable to assume that the Protoculture might have learned of the secrets of fold-based technology by observing/imitating the Vajra's fold travel and communication abilities It's also obvious that the AFOS was Vajra-inspired in appearance, though other Protoculture technology and relics we've seen don't seem to be. For all we know, Grace was reading a lot into things to fit her own goals and world view. It's like some future archaeologist taking an "sharkskin" bathing suit and an old P-40 and talking about how 20th-21st century Earth culture "feared and revered sharks to the point of imitating their form." Which would have a seed of truth, but still be a long way off from implying that sharks were somehow central or worshipped in modern culture.

I wasn't meaning to insinuate that everything the PC did was derived from the Vajra or anything, I was just pointing out that it shows officially the connection between the AFOS and the Vajra since they have similar symbols. The Protoculture modeled the AFOS on the Vajra, that is all I was saying.

Not to revive dead topics but my new question fits here I think. You have been talking about stuff like this but not in a way I can understand unfortunatly.

Is it at least possible for a PS3 (well I don't have one but a friend owns an 80GB PS3, I know there are differences between PS3 versions) to play japanese PS2 games? I have a feeling they don't but I am curious because I never played that PS2 SDF Macross game and it just looks fantastic.

I suppose I could always try to find a PS2 emulator otherwise, but I think that sounds very hard as PS2 is not that old yet and usually existing consoles don't have working emulators available online yet.

Creator's religion??

Most likely a reference to what I was saying earlier that the Protoculture, in Grace's words, "feared, worshipped, and defied the Vajra to the point of imitating their form." At which point we saw an image of the AFOS/Birdman from Macross Zero, finally explaining the similarity between that and the Vajra. The Vajra came first, AFOS was just based on them.

Did anyone else notice the shipping price of approx $50 by EMS only!! OUCH.

Yeah, I did notice, but it seems because of the sale you can select SAL shipping however they have not yet told me how much that is so I have to wait until it ships to find out how much I am paying in total for shipping. Or it could be they will force me to pay EMS regardless of the 50% off nature of the purchase.

So I am hoping I get to pay SAL shipping rate since EMS is quite high, but if I have to pay EMS I will live with that... it is the American economy that is sucking right now.

Well I took a leap, I decided I shouldn't wait to see if the sale is still going on in a week and I placed an order for a 1/48 Max... It is just too good to pass up and I have never had one of these before (and I hear nothing but good things about this line). I am officially going to be dirt poor for about a week now though because of this, lol.

I was hoping no one would notice this since I am still struggling to decide on buying Max.. I never had a Yamato valk and I always wanted Max and this is too good to pass up at this price it seems. Also I need to wait until I get some more money in in a few days so I hope the sale doesn't end soon or they get sold out or I will hate myself for not acting faster.

Sure you used the right neck piece when you built it? I think 2 out of 3 VF-25*S* problems here have been related to that.

I thought I once had this problem but I have since decided it is fine and I was just looking at a bad angle at first (the neck might not have been fully extended correctly when I first transformed it also). As for using the right neck piece, well there are two collar pieces which to this day I am still curious about but I used the one that the instructions said to use so I should have the right one anyway. None the less it looks fine for me now.