&screwed!?;

Okay, so yay for getting my PS2; nay for not being able to play the Persona 2: Eternal Punishment CD that pockyken sent me. Hey Kenny, were those CDs made for PS2/PSXs that are modded, or only for emulation on a computer? I suppose if someone would enlighten me on PS2/PSX emulation, I could work with that; I do have the PSX-controller plug in for my computer, but I don't know anything about emulators or loading games off discs/downloads for anything other than SNES/Super Famicom.

Ignore all of the above. I just tried booting the game CD into my ePSXe emulator, and it didn't even read. I looked at the CD in the DVD and CD-RW drives of my computer, and nothing showed up on the CD. It's either a faulty CD or it won't read in the computer because it's formatted for a PSX/PS2... o_O?
I think maybe I'll try and bid on some legit versions on eBay; see where that gets me. Sorry, Kenny! (max bid on a $6 set = $25! Bidding ends in 1 day; think I'll win?)

Really, the only things I wanted to be able to play (aside from legit PSX/PS2 games) are:
* CD-Rs of PSX games (Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix, 5th Mix, and Persona 2: Eternal Punishment)
* Import Games (Karaoke Revolution: Anime Mix, Para Para Paradise 2nd Mix, FFX-2 International/Last Mission, whatever else I can think of)

I don't have nor wish to buy/get any burned PS2 games (DVD-Rs), which Dave told me wouldn't boot well on my V10 anyway, because there's a risk of scratching up the lens... which would require a replacement of the whole system.

I googled around looking for stuff about the BootManager; apparently when the Firmware was installed, so was the BootManager. I know Dave supposedly made some modifications to the open-source coding of the Firmware, to allow it to support burns/backups/silvers/whatever, but I don't have his Firmware disk anymore... and he never updates his webpage or checks his email. If I don't get an email from him tomorrow, I'll call him up again and ask him how I access the bootmanager. I can supposedly burn the bootmanager CD on my own and "reinstall" (?) the firmware, which would work fine... but I don't think I can install JUST the bootmanager on its own. The site that it's supposed to be from, bootmanager.cc, is down. :(

On top of that, the firmware unpacks itself using makeit.bat. I ran it as instructed in the readme.txt file, but it said there was an error, and "any key" shut down the terminal window. So I don't know if the files it was unpacking are fully unpacked, corrupt, or what. I don't want to do anything to further screw up my PS2... and as I'm finding out, it's pretty much a done deal at this point; you can't undo hardware fixes. I always find out things too late/after the fact. Mike from anime club was saying it was much easier (and cheaper!?) to just get a PS2 hard drive and use HDAdvanced to boot any burned/backup software from the hard drive itself, instead of from CD. ;_;

...Help?

Coming Soon
Drabbles/Ficlets (especially for you, mklutz!)
FFX-2 goodness... ^_^v

[Full Metal Panic] [Sousuke x Kaname] Counting, by Azurite

Title: Counting
Genres: Drama/(W)angst/Romance/Action??
Pairing(s): Sousuke Sagara x Kaname Chidori
Rating: PG? PG13?
Notes: Dedicated to mklutz. I owe you double, so if you like this, I'll continue it. Otherwise... it's not really a drabble, it's more of a ficlet... if I can manage to not babble. In any case, it's an idea that's been burning my brain cells out of my ears, so it needs to get written, especially before I watch more of TSR.

Spoilers for Episode 5 of Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid or the Owaru: Day by Day novels. >_> Sorry, it cannot be helped.

( Counting )

I feel...

I returned the Crossover cable to Best Buy; no hassle. There was a $5 difference between it and my new blue PS2 controller. :D The whole store was so noisy though, because they had some girl named Sabrina there from Radio Disney. All these screaming tweenyboppers. X_X Gah, I'm glad I don't work at Best Buy. Their poor employees didn't even get ear plugs!

Okay, so I got the Crystal Chip firmware working. Dave set it to boot automatically; all I have to do is press the reset button. Simple enough. :) I already played DDR 3rd Mix (ow...), but 5th Mix doesn't work; I guess the CD it's on is too scratched up. But I can try to do a disc-to-disc copy and see if that works. I tried the reset thing with Persona 2, but it gives me a disc read error (not even a "insert a Playstation or Playstation 2 format disc" error).

...And even though the 5th Mix CD takes up 380+ MB of space, my Explorer can't see anything on it (thus, nothing to copy to another disc), unless there's something I don't know about burning games...?

I'm crossing my fingers that I'll win the Persona 2 auction on eBay, but I'd also like to get FFX-2: International/Last Mission. I think I know the game well enough to be able to read the menus (plus I know 'Hai' and 'Iie' in kanji...) but the whole point of buying I+LM is LM... which is entirely in Japanese. Does anyone know of where there's a Last Mission translation? And supposedly if you beat FFX-2 (J) or FFX-2 International, when you play LM and get to the top of The Tower, you get a special ending. Anyone know where that's hosted? I've already seen the "perfect" ending of FFX-2, but not this LM one.

Oh, and is there any released artwork for YRP in their new dress sphere outfits, Psychiccer and Festival-goer?