Need help with FF8 loading problems.

[Vorguen]

Spoiler alert: There will be spoilers trying to explain my problem:




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So I'm trying to play FF8, and I'm in the part where Squall barely becomes a SeeD in disc 1, and you go to the train and pass out and have a weird dream where you control other people.

While using them, after like three screens, it stops loading it. It gets stuck in a black screen with the music playing, and I can't get past that part because it won't ever load.

What the heck is wrong with it, the game is almost perfectly unscratched. Me wants to get past that part.

 

[AltF4]

Hmmm.... That almost certainly sounds like a disk scratch. You might just be really unlucky if there aren't any noticeable scratches on the disk. Sometimes just a small one will get it in the wrong place.

Try getting your hands on a friend's disk, and see if that works. Or try your disk and save file in someone else's Playstation.

 

[Vorguen]

Alright. So basically just try with other disks and other systems?

I forgot to mention, this is happening to my FF7 as well, in the part where you get to Kalm.

It is so freaking frustrating, when I love the games so much and can't get past a part like that because of CD fail.

The games hardly look scratched at all, I even bought a CD-repair thing that costed like 4 or 5 dollars and fixed it, didn't work.

:/

 

[Sensai]

You could try creating an .iso of the disc...I know that that helps on DVDs, so it might help with videogames too.

[Edit:]

Ack! That's assuming you're doing this through a PSX emulator. If you're playing the actual FF8 for the computer, it's still worth a shot but you're going to need something to mount the image file as well.

 

[Vorguen]

I have the PS1 cd's... and I am playing these on a PS2.

lol


Should have been more specific.

 

[AltF4]

In that case, it's probably your PS2 that's being faulty. Probably not much you can do about it. Maybe buy a can of compressed air, and give it a good dusting. But even that's unlikely to fix it.

 

[Vorguen]

I have an extra PS2, but it is probably in even worse conditions. Today I will try it and let you know if I was successful.

I really just want to get past that part, I love the game way too much.

 

[OutlawStar]

If nothing works, you could get an emulator :D

 

[Vorguen]

I would much rather play the game on a console because I own it. You are not supposed to talk of such things on Smashboards, ROMS = taboo.

 

[Zolga Owns]

While emulators are not^

 

[toon_marth]

Same thing happens to my friend's copy of Megaman Legends. But he doesn't take care of anything he owns.

 

[Sensai]

You're not supposed to talk of ROMs on the forums. Emulators are perfectly legitimate, as this situation comes up a LOT more than you would think.

For example: my PSX is at my home, ~3 hours away. I use an emulator to play FF7-9, along with Tactics. It's easier to carry the discs around than my PSX.

Now I might be crossing the line: am I able to link to the emulator? I know not to link to ROMs...but emulators are legit and he's even provided a reason. If this is against the rules, feel free to take it down or tell me and I'll take it down.

http://www.epsxe.com/download.php

This is the emulator I use and it works almost flawlessly. Highly recommended.

 

[toon_marth]

For example: my PSX is at my home, ~3 hours away.

Wow I live three hours away from u if youre right behind me. :embarrass