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*Patch the mechacon on scph5000x to scph 9000x and the gates open.
Congrats to all involved.
*Patch the mechacon on scph5000x to scph 9000x and the gates open.
Congrats to all involved.
PS1/2 PS2* defeated - MechaPwn
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At least quote the readme
Most important part for most around here
Pretty nice mod option. I can't say I expected to see what amounts to a kind of softmod on the PS2 but these are increasingly interesting times.
README.md for MechaPwn said:
Most important part for most around here
Pretty nice mod option. I can't say I expected to see what amounts to a kind of softmod on the PS2 but these are increasingly interesting times.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this. I think this should be on the front page. Really cool. Loading PS1 backups without a modchip. Worked for me like a charm. Just run MechaPwn.efl once, power cycle and PS1 backup loads like legit disc instead of the red (You are a pirate!!) "Insert PlayStation or PlayStation 2 format CD/DVD" screen.
PS2 DVD games worked before with ESR patcher. I guess this leaves PS2 CD games.
Would have been even cooler to have this earlier, before the lasers were that old.
And as always: Huge Thank you!! to the developers!
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, Reason: typo
This is great news! Do PS1 discs offer any advantages over Popstarter other than increased compatibility? Any improvements to accuracy or graphic options / smoothing as compared to Popstarter?
It will be exactly like retail, barring physical disc quality differences, because the DRM in a PS1 disc is all in the regional lockout. Factory-pressed discs have a region code encoded in the groove by a physical wobble that CD-Rs don't have.
Mechapwn region-frees your PS2, not by looking for all valid grooves, but by ignoring the groove, rendering the PS1 DRM useless (and beating all copy protection too, because that relies on finding the region code when you're not supposed to, because games can't read the wobble - therefore only a modchip could give it to you!)
Notice that the PS2 DRM still exists, but we can use the Master region intended for burning development builds now, so we can bypass it easily. All those paragraphs were educated guesses, mind. I'm no expert on this.
Unless you're a non-Deckard PAL or J user... then you get less. *laughs in Deckard*
Last edited by N7Kopper,
Would this also work for PS2 CD/DVD backups as well? Last time i checked there were some DVD games that did not work with ESR patcher like PaRappa the Rapper 2.
So you can run the game directly from ulaunch? Is it valid only for PS2 or can it also be Ps1?
This is awesome. I never thought I'd be able to run PS1 NTSC backups natively on a PAL PS2. I changed mine from SCPH-77003 (CEX) to SCPH-77001 (DEX). Now I can run my Valkyrie Profile backup like it was a retail disc on a retail NTSC console. The screen position is also centered, which is an added bonus because with the various swap tricks up until now the screen was too low.
A master disc is a burned disc which a developer would use on a development console. This hack basically sets the configuration in your mechacon to think it is such a development console, allowing you to use such discs.
It's possible to patch retail disc images to be master discs by using DiscPatcher.
Thank you for your answer ! Last question just to see if I got it: a retail disc patched in that way and burned in a common blank disc will be recognized by a retail console using MechaPwn ?
Last edited by asper,
You can run any burned ps2 game by running game executable with uLE, cause mechapwn mounts disc file system
It will be recognised by the console, and the disc will show up in the OSD's browser. However a retail console won't be able to boot it directly because it will be unable to decrypt the PS2 logo. You can skip the PS2 logo and boot the disc by using a homebrew disc booter. wLaunchELF has such an option.
Two additional notes that may be useful for people trying to play PS1 games with this hack. I haven't tested thoroughly so some details may be inaccurate.
PS1 games launched through the OSD will always boot up in the video mode of your console region. For 50xxx and 70xxx consoles, that will be its original region unchanged by mechapwn. For >= 75xxx consoles, that will be whatever region was set using mechapwn. If there is a mismatch between this video mode and the one the game expects, it won't display correctly.
PS1VModeNeg will autoselect the correct video mode for whatever disc you want to play by reading the SYSTEM.CNF file from it.
50xxx and 70xxx consoles will check the region string in a PS1 disc to decide whether or not to allow the game to boot. There is a tool called SetRegion which can be used to patch this string to match your console and allow imports to boot. This will not alter the video mode setting for the game and will not modify SYSTEM.CNF, which is what PS1VModeNeg uses to decide what video mode to launch with.
>= 75xxx consoles will boot any region PS1 game.
PS1 games launched through the OSD will always boot up in the video mode of your console region. For 50xxx and 70xxx consoles, that will be its original region unchanged by mechapwn. For >= 75xxx consoles, that will be whatever region was set using mechapwn. If there is a mismatch between this video mode and the one the game expects, it won't display correctly.
PS1VModeNeg will autoselect the correct video mode for whatever disc you want to play by reading the SYSTEM.CNF file from it.
50xxx and 70xxx consoles will check the region string in a PS1 disc to decide whether or not to allow the game to boot. There is a tool called SetRegion which can be used to patch this string to match your console and allow imports to boot. This will not alter the video mode setting for the game and will not modify SYSTEM.CNF, which is what PS1VModeNeg uses to decide what video mode to launch with.
>= 75xxx consoles will boot any region PS1 game.
Last edited by metroid maniac,
Also note: PAL region set boots only PAL disks, setting to ntsc (75001) boots all regions & backups
Last edited by AlexeySinitsyn,
This is a bit of a stretch, but does anyone have an OSSC and can comment if a PAL to NTSC region changed PS2 running a PS1 game outputs a proper 59.94 Hz signal or if it's still the slower PAL 59.20 Hz signal, like on modded PAL PS1 without DFO mod?
Last edited by enarky,
From the FAQ (abridged):
750xx is golden.
On a Un-MechaPwn'd console you can use PS1VModeNeg to fix that.
No idea if it works with MechaPwn, or if it's even necessary.
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