Fix for Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer for the PSX

MurMur

I thought I would post here the fix i used to get Spyro 2 to work on Batocera. As such the game runs fine until you go through a portal (like to Idol Springs) and the game gets stuck (mednafen) or crashes (rearmed). This might be due to a bad dump or something to do with the weird copy protection it is supposed to have, I don’t know :).

The fix, after some googling on other forums, appears to be to copy the .sbi from http://redump.org/disc/1182/ and to put it in the same folder with .bin/.cue files for the game. I think the .sbi file has to have the exact same name as the game files (for me it was by default). I don’t know what exactly the file contains, I’m sure someone more knowledgeable can chime in.

After the file is in the folder, just restart the game and it should work for both emulators. I only tried it for the Summer Forrest area.

tocco93

I m join with you.
I have the same problem with FF VIII when you take the train with Zell and Irvine.
It seem that emulator won t recognise the .sbi file or it wont support it.
To bypass the protect area with my game i export the savefile for edit it :(
Sorry for my bad english

MurMur

Don’t think it is the same problem but you tried with a different core (mednafen/rearmed)? Checked that you have psx bios added and working?

And if the .sbi file works, that it has exactly the same name as cd file? Try another rom?

tocco93

MurMur Yes.
in any case i get black screen (mednafen/rearmed)
It seem it doesnt support .sbi file.
i play the area with the '‘copy protection’' with Epsxe for windows and it recognise the .sbi file with the same name and it works!

MurMur

Strange, the emulators definitely recognize the .sbi file because Spyro stops working if I remove the file from the folder. Maybe try another rom and see if it would work? Can you play past the area that needs the fix and then continue on in Batocera?