PS1 VMC stopped working for Ape Escape

[oskarkilo]

Describe the issue

This is a bit wacky, but I'm pretty sure I was able to save and load my game in Ape Escape a few weeks ago. It's the only game that is giving me trouble right now. Says no memory card found. MGS still works and let's me load my save, for example.

Today I installed the update and added a couple games to my library. I hoped that when the script ran and configured VMCs again for my PS1 games that it would resolve the issue, but Ape Escape still says no PS1 memory card found.

Anything else I can try to remake a VMC for Ape Escape? Anything in POPSLOADER I can adjust?

[CosmicScale]

That's very odd, I've never heard of anyone having that issue before. The VMCs are created by POPStarter when you first launch the game, the installer script just creates the folders and config files.

On the exFAT partition of your drive, you should see the .VCD files in the POPS folder along with subfolders that have matching name. In those folders you should find a .bin file, that is your VMC. Maybe the VMC got corrupt somehow, try deleting the .bin file then launch the game. POPStarter will recreate the VMC.

[thamur14]

Could this be a VMC fragmentation problem? I had a similar issue with ps2 game and was only able to determine fragmentation problem after trying to launch the game through OPL directly, it showed an error about it. Not sure if POPSloader has the same check or if it is vulnerable to the same issue. Running the Game Installer didn't help either. I was only able to fix it by moving the save files to my PC and then back to the HDD.

[CosmicScale]

I've never heard of POPStarter having issues with fragmentation, that is very much an OPL thing. If you use NHDDL as your game launcher, you will not have issues with fragmentation for PS2 VMCs.