Please Help for the love of God!!!!!!!!!!!

**Explodee** · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 5

Thanks in advance for anyone reading this. I don't know where I went wrong. I followed the steps to make a custom song and got my ISO and was able to burn is without any problems, and it was the right size as well. But when I load it after the boot disc, which is SwapMagic Coder Plus 3.8, I boot it up and hit Normal boot and Default video, switch CD's and all I get is a black screen and the laser stops moving. I'm using a SONYD21 DVD+R and a SONY16D1 DVD-R, which are 1st class media, and neither have worked so far. I thought it might have been that I loaded too many songs, so I re-burned it with less and still black screen. Then I copied and re-burned the Guitar Hero II disc with no mods and I got the black screen again. I also used Alcohol 120%, Nero, and DVD Decrypter but no luck. I have tried like 6 DVD-R's and 5 DVD+R's. I am positive I have made no dumb little obvious mistakes like spell something wrong or put files not in order or something. But in GHex, whenever I click on a midi or vgs, it gives me 'Not a valid midi/vgs' message, so when I replaced the songs, I replaced the midi, then the vgs with another vgs, then replaced that one with the actual mp3. Thanks again for anyone willing to help. So many people did an awesome job on the songs and I am going out of my mind trying to figure this out!!!!!!!

**jwp36** · Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 13

Try special boot instead of normal, with default video selection on the SwapMagic disc, and make sure it's the DVD one, not the CD one. That's how it works for me at least.

**Sottle** · Joined: 14 May 2006 Posts: 3050

Yeah for some reason i have to use Special Boot on GH discs as well. Try that.
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**Explodee** · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 5

Tried that too and no dice. I have seen people on here with the same problem as me and it has yet to be fixed. I wonder if all the errors I got in GHex had anything to do with it.

**katamakel** · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1467 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

The most common cause for the "Not a valid xxxx" error in ghex, on multiple files, is that the archive got corrupted when copied from the disc.
If that's the case, all files are probably corrupt, which would surely result in the game not booting at all.
Try viewing some .bmp_ps2 images in ghex, if they're not showing either, I would say you need to copy everything from the disc again, and make sure your archive files actually contain something (not just 0)
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**Explodee** · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 5

I'm not quite sure how to do that. But I unloaded UI then IMAGE the OG then GEN and I found some .bmp_ps2 files but when I click on one it says 'Parameter not valid'. I saved one to my comp and it wasn't 0kb too. And basically whenever I click on anything it gives me a different error. The way I copied the PS2 Guitar Hero II disc was I put it in my computer opened the files and just copied and pasted. Was that right, or did I have to rip with with a special program?

**katamakel** · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1467 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Your archive is definitely corrupt. You should not need a special program to copy it from the disc, but I think other people have used some tricks to get it to work.
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**Explodee** · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 5

Does anyone know of these alleged tricks?