i hope this comes backI'm the owner and lead dev of FFXIV Classic (a 1.0 emulator). Talked with a friend who was a big dev on DSP (FFXI emulator) and it sparked an interest in trying to get FFXI PS2 working again.
Haven't done much PS2 reverse engineering but was looking around the POL installer library to see if I can patch out DNAS and let the installer continue passed the verification.
Sadly the online signatures out there now are all for DNAS2. XI (at least the original installer on the first release of FFXI in US/Can) uses DNAS1 (functions are prefixed sceDNAS1____). Once my friend sends me the isos for the beta version I might make more progress as they had left the debug symbols in there.
i hope this comes back
I was able to patch out the DNAS on the installer and get it working in an emulated environment, but it seems it still doesn't recognise that a hard disk is inserted into a physical PS2 if you're using a non-official drive. I've been told over Github that it has to do with the ATAD.irx driver, which checks to see if it is a legit Sony drive. However, in looking into the ISO's files I don't really see the ADAT.irx driver anywhere. It's possible maybe it's using a different method to verify the drive's authenticity upon boot up.I'm the owner and lead dev of FFXIV Classic (a 1.0 emulator). Talked with a friend who was a big dev on DSP (FFXI emulator) and it sparked an interest in trying to get FFXI PS2 working again.
Haven't done much PS2 reverse engineering but was looking around the POL installer library to see if I can patch out DNAS and let the installer continue passed the verification.
Sadly the online signatures out there now are all for DNAS2. XI (at least the original installer on the first release of FFXI in US/Can) uses DNAS1 (functions are prefixed sceDNAS1____). Once my friend sends me the isos for the beta version I might make more progress as they had left the debug symbols in there.
Could you please publicly share those dumps so that others in the future may use them in this project?Lucky you I have several hot memory dumps from my PS2 running FFXI back in 2016 saved at my HDD...