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[Rodders]

Is there anyway to get the echlone rip of soa to work with chankast for there isnt another release of it.

[Guru64]

nope

[astroduck]

Or just wait for the next release of Chankast.

[Rodders]

Right I'm going to buy this game off the net and rip it myself. I should have it in the next couple of weeks and ill upload it to my website for people to download :p cuz this game is fucking amazing.

[Guru64]

Right I'm going to buy this game off the net and rip it myself. I should have it in the next couple of weeks and ill upload it to my website for people to download :p cuz this game is fucking amazing.

Edit your post before you get banned...

[Jakob]

too late:)

[Strange]

2 Rodders
You can fix your eshelon rip with replacing 1st_read.bin from normal version - i did it, works fine for me now...

[n00by duddy]

2 Rodders
You can fix your eshelon rip with replacing 1st_read.bin from normal version - i did it, works fine for me now...

humm i have this 1st_read.bin from the original game (us-c)
i would gladly share it if i'm allowed to....
and if i'm allowed to, may i request the 1st_read.bin of grandia2us (NOT ECHELON)

[Nightmare]

humm i have this 1st_read.bin
you should edit your post...

[DCownz]

k

[Nightmare]

Could u share the original 1st_read.bin plz id really appreciate it as long as its not against the forum rules.

you must not asking that, or you will be banned ! edit your post...

[n00by duddy]

are you a mod nightmare? i ask cuz you act so....
may i ask you to mind your own business and give a chance to the ops to do their job
like most pple here i read the rules, and nothing about 1st_read.bin is mentioned
afaik this is not a copyrighted material and we could see this as a patch to convert an echelon rip into a proper one and end the begging about echelon compatibility
(and sega gave up about dreamcast more than 2 yrs ago so you can't really call this stuff warez)

stay out of the way nightmare!
please ops would you mind a reply about the 1st_read.bin? thx

[Nightmare]

are you a mod nightmare? i ask cuz you act so....
may i ask you to mind your own business and give a chance to the ops to do their job
like most pple here i read the rules, and nothing about 1st_read.bin is mentioned
afaik this is not a copyrighted material and we could see this as a patch to convert an echelon rip into a proper one and end the begging about echelon compatibility
(and sega gave up about dreamcast more than 2 yrs ago so you can't really call this stuff warez)

stay out of the way nightmare!
please ops would you mind a reply about the 1st_read.bin? thx
no, i'm not a mod, but i'm here for quite a time to know they will ban you if you ask that, trust me... i don't tell you this for nothing...
since this file has been created by a dev team for a game, it is copyrighted... and illegal to share it... even if it's old...
if you still don't trust me... ask to a mod by a PM...
or read this closed thread :
http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=22490

[n00by duddy]

hello, i'm back
I somehow managed to get the 1st_read.bin from the famous echelon version of skies of arcadia. having a non echelon rip as well, i could make an ips to convert the echelon rip of SoA into a rip working on chankast
the patch must be applied into the extracted 1st_read.bin from the echelon rip, then you must remake the image.
now the bad news is the patch is way to big (1.5Meg zipped) for me to host it on my webspace
so if anyone is interested in hosting it, let me know
this patch is not a rom and it can not be considered a copyrighted material, if mods decide that this patch is not allowed there nonetheless, then just close this thread

[MasterPhW]

Right I'm going to buy this game off the net and rip it myself. I should have it in the next couple of weeks and ill upload it to my website for people to download :p cuz this game is fucking amazing.
I thought he just was joking, because of his :P... but someone banned him... don't understand...

[XpLo]

here is his patch and like it was said earlier it shouldnt be taken as "warez" since there is no original file in it, it s just a .ips patch :p
http://xplo.free.fr/SOA_1ST_READ_FAA06637_to_621D8DDD.rar
i can patch the 1ST_READ.BIN but after i dont know how to create a .cdi file ^^;

[cuda7171]

my nonecholon skies of arcadia works almost perfect until you access the menu. are you guys saying that if i use this patch on a echelolon style cdi, skies of arcadia will work fine?

[n00by duddy]

my nonecholon skies of arcadia works almost perfect until you access the menu. are you guys saying that if i use this patch on a echelolon style cdi, skies of arcadia will work fine?

yes, the not-echelon rip is working better
1. mount your cdi image on a virtual drive
2. browse your virtual drive and copy all the content into a folder of your hard drive (fastboot folder)
3. apply the above patch on the file 1st_read.bin
4. remake the cdi image with fastboot

fastboot has been posted on this board with further instructions to remake the image
http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=22999&highlight=Fastboot

[SegaGamer]

what ips patcher should i use cos the one i used said it wasnt a valid ips file

[n00by duddy]

I've used lunar ips to make the patch and it's working ok
make sure your 1st_read.bin has the correct crc32: 0xfaa06637 (echelon version)
you must end up with a slightly smaller file, crc32: 0x621d8ddd (not echelon version)

[scbwdt]

my nonecholon skies of arcadia works almost perfect until you access the menu. are you guys saying that if i use this patch on a echelolon style cdi, skies of arcadia will work fine?

im sure you got the tal-soa(very first SOA released by talon), its non working rip.. yes it seems like it works perfect, but it will not work later on the game, most likely freeze. the reason is this talon version is originally 6 cd release. they divide each original game disk into 3 cd. their idea was to swap the cd on some point of the game to make it playable.. but problem is no one knows the swap point.. and nature of this game wont allow swap because its too complicated like echelon said.
and here is the hint for ya... TAL-SOAD1CD1 means first cd of disk1 and TAL-SOAD1CD2 means second cd of disk1. the only fully working release of SOA is echelon version :bye3:

[Cid]

I apply the patch and did get the smaller file, crc32: 0x621d8ddd.
I then try to use FastBoot to make the cd. When I load the game, all that it show is a black screen with the fps counter. Did I do something wrong? :bye3:

[aika-san]

I can understand that this method gets past the echelon intro and into the game. :happy: could someone verify whether it fixes the 'black screen inventory exit' bug as this is the major problem with the game. :whistling

thanks, in advance

[Konte]

I apply the patch and did get the smaller file, crc32: 0x621d8ddd.
I then try to use FastBoot to make the cd. When I load the game, all that it show is a black screen with the fps counter. Did I do something wrong? :bye3:


Hi..Same problem here,black screen :paperbag:

[cuda7171]

after appling it to the echelon rip ,i too got the black screen. i read somewhere 1streads are game specific. its probably not for my game. thanks for the SOA game info. hopefully it will fix itself in the next version of chankast. SOA is too cool to leave on the not working list

[Chon]

I tried it too, and I got the same black screen

[n00by duddy]

are you sure you made your image self bootable?

[Chon]

I mounted SOA echelon rip CD1, and copied everything to fastboot\DATA folder, than I overwrote the 1st_read.bin, with the patched 1st_read.bin, than i launched b2b_game.bat, and it created the image.cdi file...
But i got only the black screen

[Nightmare]

are you sure you made your image self bootable?
hmm... if they hadn't made selfbootable image, they would have the dreamcast audio cd screen...

ps : i have downloaded your ips patch, it's a 3,9 mb file (unpacked), and of course it's not full of original code :whistling, but since you don't share the original file in his original form it's fine, at least for me...
i just hope you haven't planned to make futur 700+mb ips patch to make working .cdi file ;)

[Chon]

Is there anyone, who succeeded running SOA this way???

[Manias]

same thing here... correct crc's and everything. The new image starts like the old one, shows the dreamcast animation, then the sega logo with "consolevision" below it.. just like the echelon rip 1stread.bin would. Then the screen goes black.. where the boot menu would show up.. Nooby duddy what ip.bin did you use? or none where fastboot asks u if it wants to make one? (that's what i did..) Give us a detailed walkthrough if u can :P