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Troubleshooting / fmv crash

« on: 2005-11-18 07:58:18 »

True. He shouldn't have ask that. Well I took my ff7 cd's and save points to my friends house and installed it on their PC's without the TM20 codec to see what would happen. And it crashed at the same movie scenes as expected but put in the TM20 codec and you get pass it. I guess I'm one of those people that got the bad version. And they(my friends) love the Reunion Patch. Oh and if I didn't give a shout out to him(Reunion). Sorry bro. I know wrong forum but Big Thanks for that superb patch. Makes the game worth playing over and over again.

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Troubleshooting / fmv crash

« on: 2005-11-18 03:44:05 »

I think he's talking about switching the movie files. Well you have the movies on the cd. What I meant was that you're gonna have to switch the movie that is crashing on you with a different movie that is the same in length So when you play to the part that crashes on you, you'll see a different movie in that place. It'll mess up the story but at least you'll get past it. I noticed that if you watch the movie clips in media player and move the slider just past the crashing point, you can see the rest of the movie. You must make an image of your FF7 cd that your on and then extract a movie that is the same length(seconds or minutes) of the movie that is crashing. Rename the extracted movie to the same movie that is crashing. Use a software, like UltraISO, and put the extracted movie back into the iso image and save. Play again. Maybe someone else can explain it in a more simpler way. Good luck.

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Troubleshooting / fmv crash

« on: 2005-11-14 20:08:54 »

That's Gaea's Cliff. That's where my first crash started. You won't know unless you try this for yourself. I just beat the game without any other problems. But I did take out the codec to see what other crashes there is and you're going to encounter alot of movie crashes. I don't know what to tell you but it worked for me and 5 other members that tried this. Try it if you like. If not, there is no other solution but for changing the moving files.

Good luck.

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Troubleshooting / fmv crash

« on: 2005-11-08 17:48:21 »

Alright, 4 here and one emailed me back stated it worked for him as well(very happy about it), that makes 5.  Good ideal to have this codec linked because it took me about 2 weeks to find this, really did not like switching the movies to get past the crashing areas. One thing I don't understand is why the movies didn't crash on disk 1, only started on disk2?

Thanks for posting your results members.

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Troubleshooting / fmv crash

« on: 2005-11-07 16:45:10 »

You're right. It is there. I took out the codec that I downloaded and install the one in the cd and...... the game crashed at the movie scene again. Took it out, reinstall the tm20dec.ax and no more crashes. Funny and strange. Thanks.

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Troubleshooting / fmv crash

« on: 2005-11-07 13:41:01 »

Alright, good to hear. That makes 3, includeing myself, that works. People say the codec is in the installation cd and it should have been installed when you installed the game. I don't think it was ever in there because I explored the installation cd and there is no TrueMotion 20 codec to be found anywhere on the cd. So this maybe the solution to many movie scene crashing. Missing codec.

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Troubleshooting / fmv crash

« on: 2005-11-06 18:13:51 »

Thanks for the link. Saves me alot of time sending everyone that emailed me about this. I lost the first link where I found this codec.
Be sure to backup your original tm20dec.ax, which should be smaller in size, first before putting this one in.

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Troubleshooting / fmv crash

« on: 2005-11-06 18:10:39 »

Hey there,

     All the movie scene that crashed on me was at Gaea's Cliff, Weapon coming out of crater, Meteror breaking up. Once I put this in and played at those saved points, it didn't crash anymore. I took the codec out to see if it would crash again and it did. I emailed some people who requested this codec and so far one person tried it, besides me, and it worked for them. Just waiting for the others to reply their results.

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Troubleshooting / fmv crash

« on: 2005-11-03 18:39:24 »

Glad I can help. Any one else wants this codec email me.

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Troubleshooting / fmv crash

« on: 2005-11-02 21:20:10 »

Actually I think it has to do with the old codec  (TrueMotion 20) that is not produced anymore and very difficult to find anywhere(new ones don't work). But I happened to come across a site that someone put up and that person didn't have the codec.exe to install(deleted it) anymore but he kept the installed file one in Window/System32(I think) folder. It's tm20dec.ax. I just copied that into my System32 and I couldn't believe it. It played all the places that crashed on me! The Gaea's Cliff movie, Weapon coming out of crater movie, etc.. The movie wants to crash but it doesn't. If you want this codec email me. I know it works on both of my laptops and desktops with Windows XP Pro & Home. You must backup your original tm20dec.ax that's in System32(I think) folder before copying the one that I will give you.
Your original will be about 100kb
The one that was given to me is about 300kb.
Try this at your own risk. I've had mine installed for over 2 weeks with no problems with my pc and I'm at the part where you can battle with Ultimate Weapon at Cosmo Canyon. After you see the movie.

Edit* Just defeated him with out crashing, like some members are having crashed on them.

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Troubleshooting / Gaea's Cliff crash

« on: 2005-10-25 14:29:06 »

Hey all,

        Well switching the movie file worked! I really didn't want to because I wanted to see what I was missing. I also noticed some of the other movies I checked out was playing upside down. I think I read about this and there is a patch. Well anyway at least the movie that I was missing was only 33 seconds and not that important. Thanks for your help members. Very much appreciated!!! Till next.

Jon.

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Archive / Can someone play to the next FF8 save point

« on: 2005-10-25 14:22:21 »

Here you go James,(emailed back your next save point)

        Here what you missed. After you sailed back to Balamb and get off the ship. Ziefer's buddies greet him and they took off in the car, so you have to walk back to Garden. Your're free to rome the town. I saved you in the Towns Hotel. Look closely at the table by the save point, there's something there for you to pick up. Need any more save points, email me. Enjoy. Good series of Final Fantasy besides 7.

Jon

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Archive / Can someone play to the next FF8 save point

« on: 2005-10-24 21:13:11 »

Hey semajor

         I'd be glad to help you out as long as you have the us version. I'm not sure if that makes a difference. Any either link your save file or email it to me and I'll do it when I get off work tonight at 11pm. This is first time for me as I am new here. And where are you allowed to link files?

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Troubleshooting / Gaea's Cliff crash

« on: 2005-10-24 17:30:14 »

Hey all,

     Thanks guys I will try the switching movie files and if I can't get it then I'll send dziugo my save file and if you can get me past the next save point, that would be great. I won't beable to do this until I get off work tonight.

Thanks members

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Troubleshooting / Gaea's Cliff crash

« on: 2005-10-24 05:36:20 »

Hey there,

Thanks for the reply. With what other videos do you replace it with? I really want to continue this on the PC since I spent alot of time on it already.

Thanks.

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Troubleshooting / Gaea's Cliff crash

« on: 2005-10-24 03:27:53 »

Well after seeing the FF7 Advent Children movie, which is one bad ass movie, I decided to go back and play the game. I tried PC version this time since my ps2 laser gave out. I'm at Gaea's Cliff where Cloud climbs up and the movie begins and then it freezes but the music continues. I've spent many hours uping everyone's HP level and getting everyone's Limit breaks and then this happens. Fuuuuuck! Can anyone please help me. I installed the latest Patch, 1.4.  I played through FF8 without any problems so I know it's not my pc. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
PS
My friend made me an image of his originals so I'm mounting it using Alcholo 120% if that helps.