This is an impassioned plea....
I am a simple man, I ask for very little in life, I do not crave fast cars and loose women, designer clothes or huge mansions, all I want in life is a comfy bed, home cooked food and Pro Evolution Soccer 3 playable to it's full potential.
However this, it seems, is where life has chosen to play a mean trick on me, as for the last 3 months I have toiled and tried, questioned and tried again, wasted 10 or more disks (not all mine), followed the guides on this here forum implicitly. Yet no matter what I do, a fully patched version of the greatest football game ever is beyond my grasp, it appears.
I am on the precipice of abandonment, I may well give up forever and have to resort to FIFA 2004 for my fix of football, as I can no longer bring myself to play PES3 unpatched, because I know there is so much I am missing out on, it would be like playing Championship Manager 2001 -02 instead of 03-04.
Please someone, anyone, shed some light on the darkness that is my misery.
My problem is well documented, up to stage 16 of Jonboyo's guide my files are patched and checked, however once I apply the patches (JB's 1.12.03 and 1.12.03 - 8.1.04 upgrade) the game becomes errored, so I scan with cdmage as per the guide, however, although it recognizes all the errors, it will not repair or rebuild, regardless of what I do.
Tipping my hat to Larsson, I tried it with ECCRegen, however, that doesn't work either. all I get is a blank screen after the PS2 logo.
To say I am at my wits end would be an understatement. My football fix is long overdue, as an addict, I have to say cold turkey is not nice.
So please someone, help me feed my habit.