Question time...

[JimmyCane]

Alright, if these questions have been answered previously then links will suffice.

Where can I find a copy of this game? I want to buy it retail, but I don't know where to get it. And another dilemma I am having is that PSX games refuse to work in my DVD/CD RW drive. The disk drive doesn't read them. Why is this? Is there a way to buy a legit version of a .BIN/.CUE of the game over the internet? Is there a way of getting PSX CDs to work in my disk drive? I really don't like pirating Tales of games, and if I can't rip the image from the CD I don't know what to do.

Any info would be appreciated.

 

[Rmarques]

Pre-owned copies of Tales of Phantasia for sale.

[JimmyCane]

Thank you, that answers one of my questions.

Now I need to know what's wrong with my DVD/CD RW drive.

[Gibble]

does your drive have problems with other media? Audio CDs? Data Discs? DVD? etc...? and what kind of drive is it ? Windows XP/Vista: Start>Run>"devmgmt.msc" in the tree there should be an entry with "DVD/CD-ROM Drives" expand that and it should tell you what you have.

[JimmyCane]

Alright, first off every other form of media works fine.

Audio CDs, DVDs, ect, ect.

ToD2 works, among other PS2 games and PC games.

Anyway, I have an "Optiarc DVD RW AD-7563A ATA Device"

[Gibble]

sorry I could not find anything that would explain why your drive is not working, my suggestion would simply be try re installing the drivers for the drive or finding up to date drivers and installing those...

just out of curiosity what exactly happens when you pop in a psx disc? does anything change? does the drive not spin up at all? is it possible to browse onto the cd and no files show up? does an emulator say that there is no disc when you try to load it? any other answers to questions you can think of might help diagnosing the problem.

[JimmyCane]

When I pop the CD in there is a definite noise that suggests it's spinning up, but then nothing happens. I go to Computer and it says no media is inserted in the (E:) drive, there's no "disk" symbol in place of where my (E:) drive icon is. I try to use ImgBurn to rip the .bin/.cue file from the CD, but it says nothing is inserted in the drive. I try to use PCSX, and ePSXe (or whatever that other PSX EMU is) and try to run the game straight from the disk but nothing happens, it goes to a blank screen.

I don't have Daemon tools open and I don't have any digital drives active. I only have my (E:) drive, which reads everything but PSX games it seems. Which sucks because then I have no way of burning a commercial copy of any PSX game (including this one).

[Miraglyth]

Sounds like a laser/read failure.

I've had a similar issue in the past - my old Sony drive lost the ability to recognise CDs. At first it was only some CDs, but over time it couldn't tell any CDs at all. It could read and write DVDs without problems and it could write CDs, but it could not recognise a CD - even one it had just burned!

In my case, I understand one of the lasers just failed. But the result was that when you put a CD in, it would spin up for about ten seconds and then just stop cold.

[Cless]

PSX discs are mode 2 mixed, which is slightly different than most regular CDs. But I really have no idea why any modern CD/DVD drive couldn't read them. I remember sticking a PSX demo disc into an old Mac at school in 1996/97 for kicks and it was able to detect and read it just fine.

I guess your only hope is to get a new drive, or try to rip it on a friend/relative's computer and copy the image to a large enough thumb drive or SD card something.

[JimmyCane]

Yeah, I could just rip it on my desktop when I go home. (I'm at college.)

Thanks for the help guys.