FFIX Black screen : disc 3

Perferati · April 22nd, 2003

Hi everyone, I've read several posts with similar problems but none seemed to resolve my issue.

On the third disc, I have everyone on my airship after winning the card game in treno, the little girl says something about "holy judgement" and jumps off the ship, then ... nothing - black screen.

I have been running from an ISO, i tried making another ISO several times with different programs, tried running off the CD, nothing. It doesn't appear to be scratched.

I have attached a memcard save at the closet possible location, right next to the Treno card hall where you have to play the final card champ. Im hoping someone who has beaten the game would be so kind as to use my attached mem save, get past the part when im stuck (after the girl jumps overboard) and re-attach a memsave at the closet location.

I've also tried older version of ePSXe, different CD and GPU plugins...no go.

Please help if you can..

**Yeloazndevil** · April 22nd, 2003

post your plug-in settings

Perferati · April 22nd, 2003

Like I said, I have tried various plugin settings, mainly just OpenGL and software plugins.

Here are the settings I use :

Video : Pete's OGL 1.71

1024x768x32bit
Texture quality - R8 G8 B8 A8
Texture filtering - 4

Off-Screen drawing - 2 (Standard)
Framebuffer textures - 2 (GFX Card buffer)
Framebuffer access - 3 (GFX Card buffer reads & moves)
Alpha multipass - checked
Advanced blending - checked
Unfiltered framebuffer updates - checked
Special game fixes - checked (0x0001 & 0x0002 & 0x0200 & 0x1000)

Sound : Eternal SPU Plugin 1.30
Enable sound - checked
Enable CDDA Sound - checked
Enable XA Sound - checked

Thread - 8 buffer size
Update before accessing register - checked

CDROM : Mooby2 cd disk image driver 2.0

I have tried using petes software video plugin as well, same problem.

Mr. Killjoy · April 22nd, 2003

It is a copy of the game or the original CD?
cuz if you copied your CD from a friend's one, and if this one was scratched, then... you know...

**Yeloazndevil** · April 22nd, 2003

>>Framebuffer access - 3 (GFX Card buffer reads & moves)

I don't know if this will help, but change this to 0, FF9 doesn't like Framebuffer access

Perferati · April 22nd, 2003

Its an original CD, and it rips without any errors. I've tried changing the framebuffer access to 0, didn't help.

Mr. Killjoy · April 22nd, 2003

Try using Peops CDR 1.3 to read your CD, with your usual settings, and "Async read mode", IIRC, it has never fixed any issue of that kind, but you can try

Perferati · April 22nd, 2003

Same problem...:-(

Im afraid my only hope is to keep bumping this thread in the hopes some FF guru will take the card game challenge and supply me w/ a savegame..:-)

Perferati · April 23rd, 2003

*bump*

btw the savestate is for FFIX (US/NTSC) if it matters

F-3582 · April 23rd, 2003

Have you changed the FB access as yeloazndevil suggsted?

Mr. Killjoy · April 23rd, 2003

>> btw the savestate is for FFIX (US/NTSC) if it matters

it matters, since your save won't work with my french version...

BTW, don't bump please

Perferati · April 23rd, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by F-3582
Have you changed the FB access as yeloazndevil suggsted?

Yes I have.

I have come to the conclusion that it is my CD that is *****ed. So I guess I will have to wait until I either see another copy for cheap or someone posts a save.

BlackBloodVivi · April 29th, 2003

I have the same problem...
but in my computer the black screen started in the end of disc 2

i tried 2 emulators and 2 video plugins...

i think that from end of disc 2 to disc 4 that black screen is showing

BlackBloodVivi · April 30th, 2003

i have been cheked some games to see if there is black screen too...
in beyblade( stu*id game...) there is black screen too...

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Mr. Killjoy [Suggest a custom title] Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Somewhere I don't belong (La Rochelle, France) Posts: 7,753	>> btw the savestate is for FFIX (US/NTSC) if it matters it matters, since your save won't work with my french version... BTW, don't bump please __________________ Leader of "The Pessimists' Club" CPU: Core 2 Q6600@3GHz - RAM: 2GB DDR2 (Corsair PC6400) VGA: GF8800GTS 512MB OC - Mobo: Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R - PSU: Antec Trio 650w 24Mb/1Mb ADSL - WindowsXP-Pro SP2 --------------------------------------------- All ePSXe plugins up-to-date http://mrkilljoy.deviantart.com/

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April 22nd, 2003	#2 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil :3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,140	post your plug-in settings

April 22nd, 2003	#3 (permalink)
Perferati Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 37	Like I said, I have tried various plugin settings, mainly just OpenGL and software plugins. Here are the settings I use : Video : Pete's OGL 1.71 1024x768x32bit Texture quality - R8 G8 B8 A8 Texture filtering - 4 Off-Screen drawing - 2 (Standard) Framebuffer textures - 2 (GFX Card buffer) Framebuffer access - 3 (GFX Card buffer reads & moves) Alpha multipass - checked Advanced blending - checked Unfiltered framebuffer updates - checked Special game fixes - checked (0x0001 & 0x0002 & 0x0200 & 0x1000) Sound : Eternal SPU Plugin 1.30 Enable sound - checked Enable CDDA Sound - checked Enable XA Sound - checked Thread - 8 buffer size Update before accessing register - checked CDROM : Mooby2 cd disk image driver 2.0 I have tried using petes software video plugin as well, same problem.

April 22nd, 2003	#5 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil :3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,140	>>Framebuffer access - 3 (GFX Card buffer reads & moves) I don't know if this will help, but change this to 0, FF9 doesn't like Framebuffer access

April 22nd, 2003	#6 (permalink)
Perferati Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 37	Its an original CD, and it rips without any errors. I've tried changing the framebuffer access to 0, didn't help.

April 22nd, 2003	#8 (permalink)
Perferati Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 37	Same problem...:-( Im afraid my only hope is to keep bumping this thread in the hopes some FF guru will take the card game challenge and supply me w/ a savegame..:-)

April 23rd, 2003	#9 (permalink)
Perferati Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 37	bump btw the savestate is for FFIX (US/NTSC) if it matters

April 29th, 2003	#13 (permalink)
BlackBloodVivi Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Russia,Ekaterenburg Posts: 37	I have the same problem... but in my computer the black screen started in the end of disc 2 i tried 2 emulators and 2 video plugins... i think that from end of disc 2 to disc 4 that black screen is showing

April 30th, 2003	#14 (permalink)
BlackBloodVivi Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Russia,Ekaterenburg Posts: 37	i have been cheked some games to see if there is black screen too... in beyblade( stu*id game...) there is black screen too...