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k.. tried with and without hack3 and still get wavy black/white lines... they said in their info it was the first game that actually had real protection.. maybee theres no way for the public to do it.. *shrugs*

Someone help me with this! with or without the files i cant get the damn game to boot.

ok, here is what you can do... make a 0 byte file for each *.str file you delete (just create a new file with that name). get it down under the size you need. then run

dahack BIN-FILE 2ND-LBA on all the bin files with the string "CD001" in them...

good luck. if you already got it goin, post how ya did it...

Xena said to try and use the 45000 trick and it should work w/ out any bin hacking. still don't know if those .str files are actually music or data though. there were like 2 movies and they are in sfd format and all of the levels and cars are in .lzh model format, so i think thats all there is left to be. Guess i will try that 0 byte thing. When burning soul calibur on a 650 meg cd (needs a 700) it got to the file it couldn't read and it made a loud screeching noise... im hoping that no data will stop this problem but i don't know.. you know how to do the 45000 trick? im guessing it starts burning files at the right sector (45000... duh) so the dc will recognize it as a gd-rom... still not sure on what to do though.