Gaming Final Fantasy X/X2 issue

[shadowfocus603]

I have a 2001a slim ps3 modded with rebug 4.81.2. Decided to copy some of my games to a USB hard drive and ran into an issue with the above-mentioned game. If I install it to the primary hard drive it works fine. If I install it to my USB it first has to install around 12gb of extra data. When I launch the game it will allow me to reach the screen where you choose ffx or X2 etc but when I select a game and hit x it freezes on a black screen indefinitely. I have tried copying a working installation from the primary hard drive as well as copying to USB straight from my game disk. I have ruled out the USB hard drive being the issue as other games do work on it no issue. My hard drive is a 1tb Western digital green formatted fat32 at 32k clusters. It's in a powered startech hard drive dock. I think that's all the pertinent information. I have tried mounting the game from webman as well as mmcm.

 

[AmandaRose]

I have a 2001a slim ps3 modded with rebug 4.81.2. Decided to copy some of my games to a USB hard drive and ran into an issue with the above-mentioned game. If I install it to the primary hard drive it works fine. If I install it to my USB it first has to install around 12gb of extra data. When I launch the game it will allow me to reach the screen where you choose ffx or X2 etc but when I select a game and hit x it freezes on a black screen indefinitely. I have tried copying a working installation from the primary hard drive as well as copying to USB straight from my game disk. I have ruled out the USB hard drive being the issue as other games do work on it no issue. My hard drive is a 1tb Western digital green formatted fat32 at 32k clusters. It's in a powered startech hard drive dock. I think that's all the pertinent information. I have tried mounting the game from webman as well as mmcm.

Hmm very strange issue indeed as i was just playing my backup of that very game and its on my external and both games run perfectly. Only difference is my external hdd is ntfs not fat32.

 

[bootmonster]

Some games only work on internal/external. Have you checked compat lists?

 

[shadowfocus603]

Wasn't aware of any compat lists. Will have to google it up. I am new to ps3 scene but not new to modding in general. Thanks for the tip.

 

[AmandaRose]

Some games only work on internal/external. Have you checked compat lists?

Did you not read my previous post the game wotks perfectly from external.

 

[bootmonster]

Did you not read my previous post the game wotks perfectly from external.

Could be different region?

 

[AmandaRose]

Could be different region?

Dont know i have a pal ps3 but my copy of ffx-x2 is ntsc.

 

[shadowfocus603]

So I managed to solve my own problem, albeit by accident. After having no luck copying the game to external I opted to rip an iso image to the external so I could transfer it to pc. By pure luck I noticed thta it would allow me to mount the iso in webman. Figured I'd give it a go and lo and behold it worked a treat. No more black screen freezes, no more extraneous data install, nada. Figured I'd pass the word along for anyone who might find themselves in my situation.