Swap Magic 3.8, I can't get it to work.

[Cordoba]

Hello all,

Today I received Swap Magic 3.8 in order to work around region codes.
However, it's not working.

1)I put in the SM3.8 disc
2)Swap the game I want to play in by using the slide tool
3)Select normal/special (tried both)
4)select PAL/default (my PS2 is PAL, the game is NTSC)
5)I see the message it's booting the disc.
6)It shows the browser menu (the one with the Memory card(s) and the inserted disc) and it says it's reading the disc.
7)Then the screen changes, you hear the mystic sounds from the ps2 and it shows the agonizing red-ish screen telling me I need to put in a PS2 disc.

I've used both the DVD and the Disc and I've switched step 2 and 3 (3 becomes 2, 2 becomes 3)
What am I doing wrong here?
In order to see if it works with my PAL games I went to cheat on a PAL game.
Repeated all steps, and now my PS2 cannot even read the PAL game. When I start it without using Swap Magic before starting the PAL game, it runs perfectly fine. All games used are the original games, no downloads.

If any of you can help me out, I'll be for ever grateful.

[Signa]

you sure you burnt the backups correctly? It sounds like you are doing it right. All you do is boot the system with the Swap disk, then remove it and put in the backup, then close the drive and hit X. That should work.

[Cordoba]

All discs I use are originals. I bought Swap Magic, I bought the NTSC game (by not paying enough attention on ebay -_-) and the PAL game I mentioned is also bought.

So I'm at my wit's end here, for I cannot find what I am doing wrong. Could it be that I'm not properly closing the tray? I dó use the slide card and push it back to the left again after swapping the disc...

[Signa]

I never had much success with booting different region games with my swap magic. I have the 3.2 version or something similarly ancient.

[Cordoba]

I've been asking around on other forums, but I still haven't been able to solve my problems. Is there by any chance a step I'm missing? If someone is willing to post a step by step, the over-obvious steps included, I can do just that and see if it still fails.

[Signa]

I don't know if there is anyone else here that has used Swap Magic. Once again, I didn't have any luck with using it to boot different region disks. I suspect that function doesn't really work as described because SM has more unique functions that people will focus on. Have you tried changing the video mode on the boot screen? That's the only thing we haven't covered yet.

[Cordoba]

On Normal -> NTSC, the result is the exact same. Booting disc, browser screen, error message. (tried with disc andDVD)
On Special -> NTSC however when starting up from the SM DVD, the game seems to load eternally (keep hearing the sound of a disc moving back and forth) and the screen remains black.
The disc is slightly different in not making any sounds, but the screen remains black. I do have a feeling we are getting closer to my problem.
On a side note, my television is able to play foreign signals as I've played an NTSC-J on my PS3 and it worked fine. (I've seen the result when it goes wrong too, no sounds and all black and white)


This is what I posted about that on another forum.

[Signa]

The last thing I can ask is if you are using a CD based game? There weren't many, but that could cause the issues you are having. I never was able to get my CD boot disk to even boot, so if it is a CD based game, then I wouldn't expect to get this to work at all.