Prompt to Encode an already encoded file & PS2Classics only from PS3 disc dump ?

[SomeGTAVCCodes]

Issue 1: -
Method:

• Use PS2Classics GUI to encode an iso file, Add it to PS3 Super Slim HEN HFW 4.92 using Ethernet,
  Boot up webman click the file and it says "Do you want to encrypt it"
  No - it is already encrypted. thus the option is moot.
• Not a big issue but seems unnecessary

Issue 2: Maybe i have done something wrong, and i can guarantee anyone who can fix it will attack me but ...

• You can only use encoded iso files with webman + ps2classics if those encoded files are created using the PS2Classics GUI app on PC
  i.e. encoding using webman fails, but ps2classicsgui works.

Issue 3:

• you can only use an original PS2 DVD on the PS3 and dump it there
• users cannot use a PC to dump the DVD then use imgburn to create a iso, then encode that

I have spent abotu 24hrs testing this and i have a theory - please don't attack me for it

• The DVD Gnerator code is used to create the iso file on PS3
• somewhere between 4.84 & 4.92 something shoudl have been addressed and ps2classics is still 8 years old.
  both webman and ps2classics chekc for modifed .iso files and block them, meaning we cannot fix games and use them

To replicate:
PS2 DVD ripped to PC usng IMGBurn (goto standard iso backup software since forever)

• This does not work on PS3
• Poweriso , even after like 20 years, still doesn't play well with creating iso's for PS2,
• PCSX2 plays an imgburn iso perfectly fine, as does the PS2 Hardware with OPL

PS2 DVD ripped using webman then that .iso (which shows sony's dvd generator btw) can then be encode with PS2 CLassics GUI on PC and that file will work on PS3.

THe problems;-

1. Apparently the sony dvd generator code is used to create an iso on PS3 and also PS2Classics which blocks any other iso
2. THis means you cannot for example - modify GTA Sandreas on PC then encode it, then use it on PS3.

I tried for 24 hrs then realsied the only difference in the whole process is that the PS2 DVD must be dumped using the PS3 & that's why every guide and video and comment relating to thigns never working can be explained.

Becuase the developers have ironically decided to block modifed .iso files, whuilst using the dvd genetor code to make the apps.

I coudl be wrong, but you can users can replciaet themselves. Try to use a modifed .els file with any game and create an iso with imgburn, then use with the ps3 webman or ps2classics to encode it.
it fails everytime

tested with GTA SAN_ANDREAS -
PSN pkg works, but that is NTSC and has stuff need fixing
PS2 DVD PAL, v1 or v2 dumped from PS3 encoded with webman on PS3 - FAILS
^^ Encoded with PS2 Classics works
^^ when modifed with a custom .elf (patch pal games to 60 hz), or modifying the main.scm - fails

What is the goal:
+Backup a PS2 DVD usign a IMGBurn
+Modify the game to include the fixes i made
+Encode that imgburn iso using either webman on PS3 or PS2Classics GUI
+Play the game i paid for 20 years ago and spent a long time fixing but noone else supposrt PAL PS2 games.

The evidence:
If you backup the PS2 DVD with PC with IMGBurn, modify the game &&
then create an iso with Sony's DVD generator software, it magically works on PS3 when you encode/ encrpyt it & install it as a packages.

See the irony?

[aldostools]

PS2 Classics GUI is not longer in development... I haven't touched it in over 10 years and I don't have plans for new updates. So it should be used "as is" or someone should develop a more modern version.

multiMAN and Apollo Save Tool are able to encrypt PS2 Classic games directly on the PS3. Have you tries them?

[SomeGTAVCCodes]

yep the only solution is to use sony's dvd generator software, which kinda makes for a problematic approach
The game runs fine with that _(well i say fine but i don't know how to make a config and the game is offset on the screen so you can't see the bottom),
webman: other than a few buggy moments & the aforementioned issues works fine, maybe worht a consideration if what i am saying is accurate.
thanks!

[SomeGTAVCCodes]

Hey sorry for the this stuff. I think i finally understand all the issues.
** The only webman minor issue is the "_encrypt an already file"

• However - it would be nice if things that exist in PCSX2 & ELF file mods could be integrated in webman- See point number "2." below, imagine if we had ULunach running - with access to FTP - i could then fix all this below.

I'm just posting this stuff here as it all happened as a result of simply trying to use webman lol--- the internet is dead, forums are dead, i dont use discord - and this information is actually useful - even if it is unsolved.

So...
i did find a whole bunch of other stuff a bit frustrating, usual NTSC and lack of PAL support causing most of the issues tbh.

Based on SuperSlim HEN HFW & PS2 GTA:SA tests)

1. CONFIG file listed online might not be correct

2. These CONFIG files cannot to be used with "Codebreaker.ELF" injected files.
   ^^ this means that injecting CB into ISO is basically negating the CONFIG file benefits, somehow we need a way to use ULanuch after enabling codes to put our CONFIG file back (becuase at this point WEBMAN IS DISABLED)

3. Master Codes from mastercode finder exe is incorrect - no source code available

4. no master code listed on github for PAL v1

5. Codebreaker.elf injetced into iso is NTSC, thus conflicts with ANY pal game

6. PAL Gmes set to 60hz cause monitor issues such as black screen, crash or game works but YFix needed.

7. YFix can only be applied using apps - none of those iso files produce by those apps are compatible when using PS3

8. massive americanisation of everything has left hug gaps in PAL support.

9. ARMAX tests to baked into .iso fail failed -- some TOC check probably? (the irony of hackers blocking out end users, great)

10. it looks liek the sites related to PS3 hax, modding and so claled community stuyff, still have teh same people, who still have nopt bothered to help fixs anything and still seem to be extremely hostile.

11. the irony that it is impossible everyoine owns NTSC stuff and noone else ever notices this stuff ^^^ has drove me insane over teh passed few decades of PS Modding.

Most of that is simply for other users - it has nothign to do with webman other than it is all related to the same scene which is why i could not figure out what the friging issues were.

If anyone gives a shit about trying to further any PS3 development and wants to share their secrets i dumped my GTA failed crap on the archive:
https://archive.org/details/psmodsarchive

If you know anyone from the PS2 CONFIG DATABASE scene:
This works: decrypted
3D 00 00 00 60 40 00 00 0F 00 00 00 B0 45 1E 00 08 51 1E 00 19 00 00 00 45 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 53 4C 45 53 2D 35 32 35 34 31

[FINAL]
1.|| Custom. 2.|| Net.
3.|`| GX & soft. - recommended.
3D 00 00 00 60 40 00 00 0F 00 00 00 B0 45 1E 00 08 51 1E 00 19 00 00 00 45 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 53 4C 45 53 2D 35 32 35 34 31
3D 00 00 00 89 3D 00 00 0F 00 00 00 B0 45 1E 00 08 51 1E 00 19 00 00 00 45 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 53 4C 45 53 2D 35 32 35 34 31
3D 00 00 00 57 44 00 00 0F 00 00 00 B0 45 1E 00 08 51 1E 00 19 00 00 00 45 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 53 4C 45 53 2D 35 32 35 34 31
#.ntsc - DC 46 1E 00 E8 4A 1E 00
#^^unknown function coz works in pal too?

And if you known anyone from the MasterCode and COde creator scene:
add a new "MASTER CODE"
-NOTE I only foudn one that would not crash to black screen before returning to ulaunchelf.
F0532730 00532733
^^ and this still goes to black when you boot the game
This is the closest i got : it boots the game elf, you hear the "spray can shake" sound and then it crashes HARD TO black