Project Justice dummy protection

[Eiji]

I just ripped Project Justice (NTSC-U) from my GD-ROM using httpd-ack. I've made full GD-ROM rips into 80min rips before but I'm having problems with this game.

It seems the game has dummy file or LBA protection. The dummy file is 3SYS.BIN. Merely replacing it with a 0 byte or 1 byte dummy isn't enough.

Has anyone managed to disable the dummy protection in the 1ST_READ.BIN on this game? If so, can you tell me how you did it?

Thanks!

[Darkfalz]

To defeat dummy "protection" I just build the ISO as normal with as much of the real dummy as would fit, and then edit the file system to whatever file size it expects. Works for VT2 and DOA2LE and UFC (only games I ripped that had it AFAIK).

[Eiji]

Could you outline what I need to do to edit the filesystem or what to look for?

I don't have a clue where to search but I have used hex editors before and hex edited files but for different reasons.

Thanks.

[Darkfalz]

Do a search for the filename and you will find the size in both big endian and little endian long integer format just before it.

[Eiji]

Ok, I'll give that a try.