Hacking Guide to: Converting PS1 games for PSP

[ianwuk]

Hello.

Can anyone post a guide for how to convert PSX games that use CDDA audio?

For example, I want Rage Racer. When I convert it to a normal Eboot file there is no in-game music due to the fact that the game stores the music as actual audio files.

I read a guide that asked me to convert the image file to Clone CD format (.CCD) and then put the .CCD file and the image file in the same folder and convert it to Eboot using the same steps given here.

Can anyone confirm this works or give the steps for coverting PSX games that use CDDA as Eboot files with the actual in-game music?

Many thanks.

ianwuk

 

[xist]

CDDA Popstation

 

[Jerid Messa]

So I'm trying to get that one "Star War - Episode I - The Phantom Menace" game to work on the PSP and so far I've only gotten the PS1 logo to show up and after that it stays on a black screen and my PSP shuts off. Do some games like not work at all or am I doing something wrong?

 

[xist]

Apparently The Phantom Menace just doesn't work....although in some cases this is because everyone was downloading the game and getting an ISO which itself was bad. If you're getting problems with it, rest assured that everyone else has had them too...the only thing i'd suggest would be to rip the PSX disc yourself and then try popsloader and custom game id's.

 

[shadowdorothy]

Do I have to mod my psp to play these? I hope not, but if I do have to then so be it.

 

[Rydian]

Do I have to mod my psp to play these? I hope not, but if I do have to then so be it.

Yes, you do need a hacked system to run custom content. Welcome to... any major video game system, ever.

Anyways hacking the PSP isn't like it was in the old days. You need no fancy hardware and any model can be hacked.

 

[shadowdorothy]

Ok so new question. Why is ok/yes the 0 button, but my no/cancel button X in Final Fantasy 7? It's only for this game that it has happened.

 

[Rydian]

Ok so new question. Why is ok/yes the 0 button, but my no/cancel button X in Final Fantasy 7? It's only for this game that it has happened.

Play the game on an actual PSX and you'll see that's how it is...

It's only recently that companies started swapping things around in the US to make the X okay and the O cancel (for conformity).

 

[shadowdorothy]

Ok so new question. Why is ok/yes the 0 button, but my no/cancel button X in Final Fantasy 7? It's only for this game that it has happened.

Play the game on an actual PSX and you'll see that's how it is...

It's only recently that companies started swapping things around in the US to make the X okay and the O cancel (for conformity).

Don't remember it being like that when I played it on my playstation. Oh well. I'll just try to get used to it.

 

[Rydian]

Don't remember it being like that when I played it on my playstation. Oh well. I'll just try to get used to it.

It was.
http://www.ign.com/wikis/final-fantasy-vii/Basic_Controls

Same for 6, and 5, and 4. Also other SNES/PSX RPGs, like Earthbound, the Breath Of Fire series, etc.

 

[Coltonamore]

Will the psx version of south park work with this?

 

[xist]

Will the psx version of south park work with this?

Yes it will.

 

[Jamstruth]

Ok so new question. Why is ok/yes the 0 button, but my no/cancel button X in Final Fantasy 7? It's only for this game that it has happened.

Play the game on an actual PSX and you'll see that's how it is...

It's only recently that companies started swapping things around in the US to make the X okay and the O cancel (for conformity).

Don't remember it being like that when I played it on my playstation. Oh well. I'll just try to get used to it.

If I remember rightly there's an option the change it in the settings. There was at least an option for it in FFVIII.

 

[mechadylan]

Ok so new question. Why is ok/yes the 0 button, but my no/cancel button X in Final Fantasy 7? It's only for this game that it has happened.

Play the game on an actual PSX and you'll see that's how it is...

It's only recently that companies started swapping things around in the US to make the X okay and the O cancel (for conformity).

Don't remember it being like that when I played it on my playstation. Oh well. I'll just try to get used to it.

If I remember rightly there's an option the change it in the settings. There was at least an option for it in FFVIII.

Yes, there is. Bring up the menu with triangle>Config>Controller>Customize>Press "START" to customize>invert "Select" and "Cancel">Press Directional button Left of Right to end.

 

[Sheimi]

Using CDDA Popstation. I get this error while trying to convert Pac-Man World. Cannot open base.pbp. Not sure what I am doing wrong.

 

[xist]

You need base.pbp and keys.bin to use those command line converters. Both files taken from the Hot Shots Golf PSN release.

 

[redfalcon]

Is there a plugin/other possibility to get image filters like hqnx or 2xSal to work with the PSX emulator?

 

[Rydian]

Is there a plugin/other possibility to get image filters like hqnx or 2xSal to work with the PSX emulator?

Not that I've ever seen, especially since it's not really an emulator, but a virtualizer, and has no plugin support natively (and a system-wide plugin wouldn't work since it'd be working from native to native, which means no scaling).

 

[ShadowNeko003]

Hi,

I'm trying to convert Bust A Move 4 to eboot format, but I'm not getting any music. I assume that it has CDDA audio? I've read through the last few pages on the thread, but it just confused me more. Such as using CDDA Popstation, as mention by xist. I've download it but have no idea how to use it. (extracted the zip, got src folder and popstation application. popstation application doesn't execute.)

I'm running 6.60 PRO permanent. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Siveria]

I have tried to convert tales of destiny using this guide and the game never works in my psp, it auto fills in the game ID when I load the iso. Maybe not entering it manually is the problem?