Re: Jak 3 bordering on unplayable (PCSX 2)
Posted by Danielle on .
The PCSX2 wiki notes the issue here:
https://wiki.pcsx2.net/Jak_3
It seems like that the latest nightly build shouldn't have the issue, but either way it should go away if you use full boot mode instead of fast boot mode.
Alright, so this is part of a problem that’s been mentioned on here before but there’s more to it (please do not just link me that previous thread, because that won’t solve my problem).
The ROM here for Jak 3 doesn’t work correctly when you first load it up. Specifically, the opening cutscene has no sound, and the REASON for this is because the designers were creating a Japanese dub… that they never finished. As a result, they never recorded audio for it. This Japanese dub is what the ROM’s audio settings are at by default, hence why there’s no audio during the cutscene.
So you have to go into the game’s settings and change to English, fair enough… that’s not the problem. The problem is that if you don’t do this the very first time you boot it up, YOU CAN NEVER CHANGE IT AGAIN. Like, it’ll just reset back to Japanese every time you boot it up after that, so you’ll never be able to hear the audio during the opening cutscene, and it’ll just be stuck like that forever.
The problem is I already screwed this up, and accidentally loaded the game up in PCSX 2 then closed out of it. Now whenever I boot it up now, the opening cutscene has no audio, and if I change the audio to English then to try to boot it up again? It goes straight back to Japanese. So if I can’t fix this, it’s just gonna be stuck this way forever in PCSX 2, all because I didn’t immediately change the audio the very first time I booted it up. It’s a known bug that has seemingly no solution if you don’t remember to do it the first time.
So for people who use PCSX 2, is there a way to fully reset the game in the software so it acts as if you’ve never opened that ROM or booted up that game before? That’s the only way to fix this issue with Jak 3, so if I can’t get it back to the way it was so switching the language is permanent, then I’ll never be able to hear the intro. Sorry to sound so frantic, but I’ve been trying to get this to work and it’s driving my crazy.
The ROM here for Jak 3 doesn’t work correctly when you first load it up. Specifically, the opening cutscene has no sound, and the REASON for this is because the designers were creating a Japanese dub… that they never finished. As a result, they never recorded audio for it. This Japanese dub is what the ROM’s audio settings are at by default, hence why there’s no audio during the cutscene.
So you have to go into the game’s settings and change to English, fair enough… that’s not the problem. The problem is that if you don’t do this the very first time you boot it up, YOU CAN NEVER CHANGE IT AGAIN. Like, it’ll just reset back to Japanese every time you boot it up after that, so you’ll never be able to hear the audio during the opening cutscene, and it’ll just be stuck like that forever.
The problem is I already screwed this up, and accidentally loaded the game up in PCSX 2 then closed out of it. Now whenever I boot it up now, the opening cutscene has no audio, and if I change the audio to English then to try to boot it up again? It goes straight back to Japanese. So if I can’t fix this, it’s just gonna be stuck this way forever in PCSX 2, all because I didn’t immediately change the audio the very first time I booted it up. It’s a known bug that has seemingly no solution if you don’t remember to do it the first time.
So for people who use PCSX 2, is there a way to fully reset the game in the software so it acts as if you’ve never opened that ROM or booted up that game before? That’s the only way to fix this issue with Jak 3, so if I can’t get it back to the way it was so switching the language is permanent, then I’ll never be able to hear the intro. Sorry to sound so frantic, but I’ve been trying to get this to work and it’s driving my crazy.