well if it is your PS2 Slim

you need to leave your Drive Compartment Open while doing the swapping a disc, and also to trick the PS2 that you actually closed the compartment, you only have to fill the Sensor that detects the compartment to close.

Then after that, SM should start and choose swap disc on the menu, you will notice that after you choose the option, the disc stop rotating, well thats your chance to swap with your backup, then press X again to continue, and the disc will continue rotating again.

Done, your backup successfully launch.

 

you are putting in a high-TOC game before hand right? thats how swap magic works (if im not mistaken). if you are using psx, keep in mind that may not work.

edit: maybe im thinking of cogswap idk.

 

high table of contents game. what you basically do is put in a original game with the same or higher toc (think of that as size, like lets say your game is 1.4 gb, you need to put a game that same size in for it to launch. star wars battefront [2] has a very high toc - its size is 4ish gb [im actually pretty sure it filled up the whole disc], and so therefore it would launch any game) and put in the backup and itll launch. thats how it was with cogswap, i think swap magic works a similar way? does it say to put in a backup or original when you first goto the menu.

 

No PS1 games, alright...
But why doesn't it boot PS2 games either?

 

Yes, but I is going back to the PS2 menu.

 

And an updata about the DVD type... Digimon World 4, the game I tested and Swap Magic didn't work, was on a DVD+RW. Just a minute ago I burned Digimon World Data Squad on a DVD+R. He didn't work either. So it isn't the DVD type but something with Swap Magic...

 

You seriously expect a DVD+RW to work? The ps2 lasers are very picky to the DVD media quality. You need a good brand, good burner and good burning speed(4x or faster) to get acceptable results.

If it was an old ps2, i would also suggest to bitset DVD+Rs to DVD-R to increase compatibity, but this shouldn't be an issue on a slim. If you want to try it, bitsetting a DVD+R to a DVD-R can only make it better.

 

RW discs will NOT work...the +R disc's may work but they need to be of a decent quality and burned at a decent write speed (not too slow, not too fast) with good software and a good optical drive.

Consoles tend to like -R more...partially because in the past -R drives were cheaper.

 

TOC means Table of Contents. Its a DVD architecture that defines the disc size and its file stucture.

i guess someone says that you need a high TOC game, well the latest coder SM, is actually a Dual Layer Disc (7.9GB you can see a dummy file inside the swapmagic and it size around 7.8gb so the TOC will allocate all the DVD structure), so it might not be a problem though if youre saying that TOC is one have the problem though..

btw: you can create your own MCboot, its actually a swapmagic ripoff homebrew that ables to launch backups without a help of swapmagic. though it might be picky on slim models. I tried it on my slim and it actually works though

 

The strange thing is... It doen't even load the game and than says : There isn't a good disc in the PS2driver, but It load a second and is going back to the PS2 menu. Again : Could it be that Swap Magic 3.8 don't work on SCPH-90004 Slim?