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Title: need FF7 help here
Post by: enigma^^ on 2005-07-29 15:02:24
Hey guys, I'm currently stucked at the part where Cloud surrenders the black materia to Sephiroth and the weapons come out of Northern Crater. The FMV simply crashes on me. I've checked that my biglight.avi is corrupted. Could someone please please help me play past that part? If I could, I do not want to tinker with the registries and all that technical stuff. Please let me know if you're willing to help and I'll send my save file to you by email. Thanks
Title: need FF7 help here
Post by: Yazoo on 2005-07-29 17:41:31
w8, so you dont have the movies in your hard drive yet?

I really suggest you put em in there since it makes the movies run so mch smoother.

AS for the corrupt file just copy biglight.avi from your cd and that should do it..
Title: need FF7 help here
Post by: enigma^^ on 2005-07-29 17:53:42
but I thought that if the movie can't run on windows media player, it means that that file is gone/unusable (even if copied to hard drive)? I don't know.. haven't tried doing that yet.
Title: need FF7 help here
Post by: EmperorSteele on 2005-07-29 18:30:37
Yeah, yazoo, he said he didnt want to do all "that technical stuff", so moving the movies to his HD is probably a last resort.

Enigma, what kind of cd drive do you have? or are you using a dvd drive?  becaue the physical location of biglight.avi is near the edge of the disk, whcihsome older/slower cd players have trouble reading.

What you could try is this:

alt tab into windows just before the movie.  Find biglight.avi under cdrom/ff7/movies  and try playing it in winamp a few times.  or did you say you can't?  anywyas, if you can get it to play, it will be stored in memory, and you can go back into the game and it will play =)

Your disk might also be scratched or dirty.  try cleaning it off and see if that imporves anything =)
Title: need FF7 help here
Post by: Yazoo on 2005-07-29 18:38:50
If that dosent work then i recommend you just copy the movies to you hard drive.

the instructions (.txt) can be found at  www.ff7-universe.com
Title: need FF7 help here
Post by: enigma^^ on 2005-07-29 19:21:02
actually, I mounted it on daemon tools. btw, I tried copying the movies onto my hard drive and tried the substitution movie trick. Well, it did work and I got past to the Barret and Tifa scene in the shinra medical room. However, my happiness was short-lived when I suddenly got a black screen the moment I moved Tifa to talk to Barret again. Aaarrggghhh!!!

Ok, I can't take this anymore. I need to go and sleep. I'll try again tomorrow. *sigh*

p/s: btw, I'm a girl ^_^;;
Title: need FF7 help here
Post by: enigma^^ on 2005-08-06 04:21:39
Solved problem. I got another working copy of the game. It seems that the iso I got was super corrupted.
Title: need FF7 help here
Post by: RPGillespie on 2005-08-06 04:39:54
Quote from: enigma^^
Solved problem. I got another working copy of the game. It seems that the iso I got was super corrupted.


Iso? Copy? My My, what could this imply? In a double post too, tsk tsk. Anyways to the point of this reply, I posted the save of the next possible save point for someone else I can't find the topic though.. I think it was written by "Reno-Red"
Title: need FF7 help here
Post by: James Pond on 2005-08-06 08:32:29
Quote from: RPGillespie

Iso? Copy? My My, what could this imply?


It implies she created an ISO and mounted it using daemon tools.  She said it herself.

Quote from: Enigma^^

actually, I mounted it on daemon tools
Title: need FF7 help here
Post by: enigma^^ on 2005-08-06 08:52:28
Quote from: James Pond


It implies she created an ISO and mounted it using daemon tools.  She said it herself.


Thank you for explaining ^_^ The original CD was kinda scratchy, so I wanted to make a backup copy of it to play on the computer instead of wrecking it further. But looks like I was making an iso of a very bad CD already *sigh* Anyway, I got the new copy from a friend, so there.
Title: need FF7 help here
Post by: James Pond on 2005-08-06 15:46:58
Heh, I do it all the time, Alot of my DVDs are copies, cause I buy pre owned DVDs from my local indie shop for like...£2.99 each, if I find they skip, i just ISO them and then put them on a DVD RW.

<3 my modded PS2.
Title: need FF7 help here
Post by: jamesyfx on 2005-08-06 15:58:14
Guh, I wouldn't dare mod my PS2.. it'd be like selling my own mother.. Haha.

Is there even mod the slim ps2 yet.?
Title: need FF7 help here
Post by: RPGillespie on 2005-08-06 18:30:28
Oh... my bad, my bad, didn't see that part of her post
RPGillespie
Title: need FF7 help here
Post by: James Pond on 2005-08-06 21:41:56
Quote from: jamesyfx
Guh, I wouldn't dare mod my PS2.. it'd be like selling my own mother.. Haha.

Is there even mod the slim ps2 yet.?


Ive PM'D details of it.