[Benzonia]

So I backed up my legit copy of FF13 onto an external FAT32 HDD, and I've been playing with no problems whatsoever, until.....

I'm getting the persistent black screen freeze problem after beating the boss in Chapter 11. After some searching, I've found this has to do with the game trying to load a large 5GB movie file and hanging on the load. But I thought multiMAN did the automatic splits? What's wrong?

Btw the game was backed up using multiMAN 2.00, the split icon shows in multiMAN, and i selected "yes" to caching files to internal upon first load of the game. Any help would be appreciated, cuz I'd rather not finish the game via disc.

[itskamel]

do you have your payload set to hermes in the multiman settings?

[Benzonia]

Yeah it's set to Hermes.

[itskamel]

check this

http://www.pshomebrew.net/wiki/PS3_B...atibility_List

[Benzonia]

Cool that's a great list that I'd never seen, but FF13 is listed there as compatible. I don't see any mention of the problem I'm describing.

Interestingly though, FF13 is listed as discless, which is a surprise to me because I've always heard that it needs some/any disc in the drive in order to boot a backup.

[itskamel]

did you see the note about editing the sfo file with a hex editor?

edit** that might not matter as you already have it running.

[Benzonia]

Yeah I can boot it no problem, start a new game, even load save files past this point. It's just this movie sequence i can't get past (not even skip) without putting in the disc and booting from that.

Btw thanks for trying to help so far -- i appreciate any input!

[nowayout]

Multiman won't automatically split large files, you need to tell it first to move those specific files to the internal drive, leaving the smaller files on the external. I can't rememer how you do it, but it should be in the readme or something. Also, I think whether FFXIII has a file over 4GB varies by region, which could explain why it is listed as compatible but you are having trouble. HTH

edit: Just noticed from your post that you mentioned you already said yes to caching the files - sorry I missed that first time round lol. In that case I would check that they are still there (IIRC they should default to a subfolder of BLES80608) because there is an option in MM's settings that will clear all cache files that might have been pressed by accident.

[jean945]

I say, copy the game to internal and play it there. If you don't want to do that just FTP the big file to your HDD (you need to back it up first since you can access the disc files from the FTP), split the large file and put it in your external HDD using deank's tool 4G tool. I'm not sure the tool accepts single files but you can try nonetheless putting it in a folder and selecting it in the tool.

[Benzonia]

Originally Posted by jean945 just FTP the big file to your HDD (you need to back it up first since you can access the disc files from the FTP), split the large file and put it in your external HDD using deank's tool 4G tool.

Okay, I'm giving your suggestions a try right now. I'm currently transferring via FTP the large movie file (z019_us.ps3.wmp, ~5.9GB) directly from the blu-ray FF13 game disc to my desktop computer hard drive. When that finishes, I will use deank's split4g.exe tool to split that file, using the filename.666## naming convention. Then I should be able to transfer those split files to my external HDD containing the rest of the the FF13 ripped files, and just replace the previous split files with the ones I just made using the stand-alone tool.

Is that how I should be doing it?