Yes, if you want to prevent a level 1 from being created without a corresponding level 0 being available, then you need to do a crosscheck in the script so RMAN knows that the level 0 is not available.
Are you sure this is an RMAN backup set? Maybe it is just a dump file made while the database is online. For 9i you only had exp and not the newer expdp available to make dumps so you could try to import it with imp and see what the output is:
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please check your
alert.log
for your database instance(your database instance must running)
.if you use catalog database, it must be open
(the target database does not need to be open)
.