soul reaver

[raiden30]

hi can someone help me. i am trying to get legacy of kain: Soul Reaver to run and am getting nowhere. i have it as an .iso and on cd and all i get when i try to run it is a black screen, wont even come up with the eidos logo. i have never had trouble playing anything in epsxe before and im bemused. i have tried every combination of graphics and sound plugins i can think of. have tried running several bios's . all with the same result. i am running xp pro and a geforce fx 5600 and a soundblaster pci card. can any1 help , i checked the compatibility list and it says 100% playable.

[I-Chan]

try looking for a ppf patch, might be copy protected.

[raiden30]

yeah i tried that. now i never used a ppf patch so maybe i did it wrong. i downloaded the patch and ppf-o-matic and used that to patch the iso. and then burned the iso again. same result though. is there another way to use ppf patches.

[raiden30]

just found out the patch i was using was for ntsc and i need one for the pal uk version. can someone please tell me where to get one. i got one that was pdx-sruk.exe but that cant open the iso.might someone tell me where i can get a .ppf patch for the pal uk version of soul reaver. and i have confirmed that the game is protected.

[I-Chan]

Don't know where, but there's a nice workaround:
- Download peops cdr driver.
- insert the cd.
- start ePSXe.
- Go to 'Config->CDRom'
- Select peops, and click configure.
- In the lowest part of the config window, click on 'make m3s/sbi subchannel file'.
- Select 'Make from CDRom', sbi file, and make it (relax, will take about 5-10 minutes).
- Then select 'use subchannel file' from the plugin's config, and choose the one you just made.
- Play the game

[seph29]

Or, if you want to play from an image(let's face it, playing from a CD sucks ), you can rip the CD using CloneCD which will also rip the subchannel data which will be autoloaded by ePSXe and allow you to play. You could also load the CloneCD image with Mooby's Image Driver and select the Sub-Channel option.

[raiden30]

Originally Posted by I-Chan

Don't know where, but there's a nice workaround:
- Download peops cdr driver.
- insert the cd.
- start ePSXe.
- Go to 'Config->CDRom'
- Select peops, and click configure.
- In the lowest part of the config window, click on 'make m3s/sbi subchannel file'.
- Select 'Make from CDRom', sbi file, and make it (relax, will take about 5-10 minutes).
- Then select 'use subchannel file' from the plugin's config, and choose the one you just made.
- Play the game

tried that still the same result im afraid. thanks anyway

[raiden30]

Originally Posted by seph29

Or, if you want to play from an image(let's face it, playing from a CD sucks ), you can rip the CD using CloneCD which will also rip the subchannel data which will be autoloaded by ePSXe and allow you to play. You could also load the CloneCD image with Mooby's Image Driver and select the Sub-Channel option.

i have been trying it with an .iso as well but ill try it with that plugin

[seph29]

Not a .iso, a CloneCD image(should generate three files: .img = main info, .ccd = table of contents, .sub = subchannel info). What are you using to rip it now? If you're ending up with a .iso file you're probably not ripping subchannel data as well.

I-Chan's fix should have worked though, it may be something else causing the prolem... What CD/DVD-ROM drive are you using?

Also, I'm assuming this CD is the original storebought CD, correct? If not then you're wasting our time.

[raiden30]

yeah its an original cd i have had since the game was released . maybe its the cd thats damaged. i have been using Discjuggler to rip it . ill try clone cd.its an NEC dvd rom drive.

[seph29]

DiscJuggler doesn't rip the subchannel info, so of course it wouldn't work... CloneCD does, so it probably will work.

Also, I've attached a copy of the patch for the PAL UK version. You can rip the file using CDRWin/CCD/Whatever and then apply the patch to the image file. This should work, so you may want to try this first. It's up to you though.

[raiden30]

thanks for the help. ill try that

[I-Chan]

Seph, you are forgetting that my fix can be used to play from an iso too. Virtual drives are there for something, that's the way i play . Raiden, if everything else fails, you should try playing with the bare minimun settings, and then playing with the compatibility ones. I'd suggest trying peops gpu plugin, and disabling sound at all. As Seph stated, my fix should have been enough to surpass a copy protection, so i doubt that could be the problem anymore. Also, take a glance on the debug window (the little black msdos window, if it doesn't show, go to 'Run', and check 'Enable Logs'), and tell us wich mesagges does it show. Let's see if we can solve it!