Region unlocking not always working

[airainchoc]

It seems that region unlocking / psnee injection isn't working correctly.

Tested on at least 2 Pal 5502 playstation. Always getting the "insert playstation disk" message, no matters the img region

Can (mostly) boot games from freepsxboot / tonyhax via memory card tho

[airainchoc]

Should be resolved since commit babc072, at least for single track games

[Dev8683]

Tested on Pal 5552 playstation. Always getting the "insert playstation disk" ?

[airainchoc]

Do you always have this message after updating to v0.0.3 ?
What's the image you're using ?

[Dev8683]

I tried NASCAR Rumble (USA), and PAL and Crash Bandicoot 3 PAL, always same issue
https://imgur.com/3ZPL0J5
This this with 8GB SD Card, I get this insert CD Always, with 16GB SD Card it's doesn't read it, just pico led keep flashing in green.

[airainchoc]

I had the same issue once, was a soldering problem

Can you check that RPI pin 6 (GP 4) is only connected to pin 3 of the FFC connector (point number 3 on this pic

If it touches an adjacent pin (pin 5 or 7), or there's any bridging. Region unlock won't work at all

[Dev8683]

Hello again, first of all I don't have the FFC, I'm soldering directly to the points, I even changed the pico once again, and resoldered everything from the beginning, and made sure nothing is bridged, and still have same issue of insert cd, yet only once in the previous try with the old pico, game sometimes launch (PS Logo) then turns black screen, but this never happened again, now as I said earlier I'm stuck with Insert CD as you can see here, I uploaded pictures for my soldering https://imgur.com/a/11Bc3VJ
Also when I tried to compile picostation (PSX) I got an error (For dev matters), although it worked for other consoles and compliled without issues.
Hopefully you can help me bypass these issues.

[airainchoc]

The ps logo + black screen is the "normal" behaviour.

Did you try with a real unirom image ? (Region unlocking isn't working with multi track games)
You can find it here: https://github.com/JonathanDotCel/unirom8_bootdisc_and_firmware_for_ps1/releases/

If you can, try booting freepsxboot or tonyhax from a memory card, then close the lid and see if it helps

[Dev8683]

Tried the file you sent me, still it's not booting, always insert cd, is there a way through serial port to read picostation details?

[airainchoc]

You can use usb serial monitoring on the Pico via your computer (can't tell you how tho)

[ramapcsx2]

This stuff is a bit complex. It is normal for the ODE to not be reliable at this stage.
You should work around the need to unlock with a Unirom cart (for example), and test whether the ODE even is able to send data.

[Dev8683]

hello; I have a playstation scph-5552 i mount pico station ; i mount unirom (audio) in sd card it works normally but when i used unirom game doesnt work the illustration in videos thnks in advance
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16lpnhuknHE6HOJdqaGW66j933WuPwrGT/view?usp=share_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nZpr9hnsj-nKczrpv_RQWmoB0C9JOd-4/view?usp=share_link

[weiwenxun]

Two missing solder joints.

[Dev8683]

Two missing solder joints.

it works thnks
the you have any other tricks about this pico picostation.