Installation error - WATER-AN.CGO not found, despite ISO being validated.

[karumeyaki]

Acknowledgements

• I have searched for duplicate or closed bug reports
• I understand that I am supposed to provide my own legitimately obtained copy of the game
• If possible, I've attached the support package zip file to the issue see how here

Attach Support Package / Log Files (drag and drop)

opengoal-support-package.zip

Describe the Bug

How To Reproduce

The ISO file is called JADPL because I don't actually have a CD/DVD driver so I went on a different PC which had one, copied the DVD files into a folder, sent that folder to my PC and from there I used ImgBurn to convert these files into the ISO file... If that is the reason for the whole problem I'm very sorry, I'm new to this whole thing.

I couldn't upload the video where I recreated the issue here for some reason so here's an Imgur link (I sped it up because the limit there is 60 seconds):
https://imgur.com/a/FMpta2e

Operating System

Windows 11

Launcher Version

v.2.5.4

Tooling Version

v.0.2.18

[xTVaser]

[47:50] [�[38;2;255;255;000mwarn�[0m] Skipping ticky in GAME.CGO because it is a broken PAL object
[47:51] [�[38;2;255;255;000mwarn�[0m] Error when reading DGOs: File ...\WATER-AN.CGO cannot be opened: does not exist. on ...\WATER-AN.CGO
[47:51] [�[38;2;144;238;144minfo�[0m] -Loading 7 plain object files...
...

Error: invalid unordered_map<K, T> key
Build failed on custom_assets/jak1/levels/test-zone/test-zone.jsonc
�[1m�[38;2;255;255;000mCode:

This problem has been reported before and the issue as far as we can tell so far is an improper ISO file creation (as shown in the above, a file cannot be found that it expects to). I have seen people with this file as WATER_AN.CGO instead of WATER-AN.CGO for whatever reason.

I'm transferring this issue to the main project, it's not a launcher problem, and i think we need better logs and validation around ISO files to mitigate this problem.

[Matty2024]

Hey OP,

Thanks very much for posting your issue. I actually had this installation error previously and there is a very easy fix.
As @xTVaser mentioned, this is indeed a error during the ISO creation while using ImgBurn and has nothing to to with the Launcher or Tooling version used.

The Solution

• Do NOT transfer files off the CD and then create and ISO from those files. Something unknown goes wrong here with either Windows 11 or ImgBurn and the file "WATER-AN.CGO" gets changed to include an underscore instead of a hyphen. This is most likely a read error when creating a copy from the disk (even though the files still shows a hyphen after the copy.
• Create an ISO directly from the CD and then run the "Validate Disk" function to compare the CD and the newly created ISO file.

A bubble gum & sticky tape temporary solution is to downgrade your Tooling Kit to v0.2.16 and then the game will install normally.
This however is not the best idea as you always want to be running the latest version for new bug fixes and feature additions.