Dunno if it's the best subforum to post this thread in... If you are reading this, you're a mod and want to move it, go ahead.Hello there.
I'll have to disappoint you: No, it's not a miraculous way to get rid of your crashes. It's a little research I have to do, to learn more about corrupted movies and handling them. It's only for testing purposes, but... if you can take an advantage of it, why not give it a try?
dziugo's theoryA little explanation first. Those (in)famous FMV crashes/lockups aren't random. Who's experiencing them? People with
corrupted movies on their FF7 CDs. It's not caused by scratches (probably) nor your neighbor's voodoo curses (again, probably
). It's caused by... hmm... won't say it, but it's kind of obvious... There are just few "versions" of FF7. Some of them won't cause any problem when watching FMVs, some of them will...
Thanks goes to Larken and Xcalibur for pointing me in the right direction while looking into those crashes.Why not a fix instead of this research?I think that the permanent fix is a better choice. If there are only few differences between those files, a simple patcher will do the job. And that's the part when I need you guys&girls.
I've written a simple program. It'll run some checksums on your CDs and gather the needed information (
only about those files). It will produce some files which I need you to send me. And that's it.
Why you should trust me?Because I ask nicely
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Link to my program:
Download.
Feel free to post your comments/flames.
dziugo
