FF IX Tips for Stable Performance

[AvatarOld]

I am just converting my old FF IX disks to eboot's & would like to know the best setup to play this great title on the PSP.
I am using level 9 compression, with the same GameTitle & GameIDs for each of the 4 disks. The game is NTSC.
My PSP is running 3.03OE-C - is it better to use DaXs 3.02 POPS Plugin or the 3.01 hex-edited plugin?

Thanks !

[xJOSx]

I am just converting my old FF IX disks to eboot's & would like to know the best setup to play this great title on the PSP.
I am using level 9 compression, with the same GameTitle & GameIDs for each of the 4 disks. The game is NTSC.
My PSP is running 3.03OE-C - is it better to use DaXs 3.02 POPS Plugin or the 3.01 hex-edited plugin?

Thanks !
From my experience, 3.02=3.03 when it comes to compatability with this game... I made it all the way up to Memoria on Disc 4 without ANY crash (unlike most Square games on POPS), with only minimal slowdown in highly populated towns (Compression doesn't make a difference)...

However, make sure your disc doesn't have scratches (or at least minimal scratches), otherwise the sound might get screwy...

[AvatarOld]

Ah - thanks for that heads-up :)
I started off with the 3.03 POPS & the game crashed near the beginning (!)
Then installed the 3.02 POPS & its behaved itself for the last hour :)
Similiar to FF7 where 3.02 was much better.

I really like this game - 4 members in your party -woo! Has a similiar feel to FF3 on the NDS with cute characters & a slightly goofy story.
How long is this game roughly ?

I had forgotten how good this FF was :) They even cadged music from it for FF3 NDS :D

[xJOSx]

Ah - thanks for that heads-up :)
I started off with the 3.03 POPS & the game crashed near the beginning (!)
Then installed the 3.02 POPS & its behaved itself for the last hour :)
Similiar to FF7 where 3.02 was much better.

I really like this game - 4 members in your party -woo! Has a similiar feel to FF3 on the NDS with cute characters & a slightly goofy story.
How long is this game roughly ?

I had forgotten how good this FF was :) They even cadged music from it for FF3 NDS :D
If it crashed with 3.03 you probably have a bad dump... Mine worked perfectly using 3.03 and ISObuster (bin/cue)... You might want to re-dump, it might cause problems later on in the game

[badman112]

Just a shot in the dark here i did have a few games that did crash on 3.02 or was it 3.01 it manged to sort itself out non 3.03 oe-c. So what i am saying the new firmware will be out and this will be a maybe good chance for it not to crash.

[AvatarOld]

If it crashed with 3.03 you probably have a bad dump... Mine worked perfectly using 3.03 and ISObuster (bin/cue)... You might want to re-dump, it might cause problems later on in the game
Yes good point - I am about 5 hr's in with no prob's so far - I'll check ebay if the game has as many crashes as FF8 did. 2 of my disks were scratched so I'm slightly nervous ...

Hey - with the new FW 3.10 can we use psardumper to dump out the 4 POPS files & then use that hex-edit approach to get POPS working w the OE firmwares ?
Right tried it but new 3.10 FW has no meaudio.prx - can modify DaXs 302 plugin ok but new 3.10 files don't load up PSX games - unsurprisingly :p

Wo! - the new 3.10 FW has a F0\Kd\'msaudio.prx' @17KB (like the 3.03 FW) - I hex-edited this into DaXs 'pops310ld.prx' loader, enabled the plugin & the game loaded & I can access my saves (!)

[jade_wolf]

would you be able to upload the 3.10 plugin or instructions on how to make it?

[nonameduck]

Hey, is anybody else having problems with cutscenes? The game seems to glitch up during cutscenes.

[mrgone]

glitches in cutscenes can also mean, that your images are a bad dump ( mine were when i played it on da real psx)