[groovster]

ok, xenosaga has xenosaga.01 through xenosaga.12, many .ovc and .irx files. the .01 to .12 files are mostly very large. i think these must be munge files (game data compressed into an archive with an allocation table). from what i find on ps2 sources, there are utilities that sniff out the ps2 media files, utilities which will then extract these files, and utilities which can reassemble and create a new allocation table....then, hopefully, whall-ah!, you get a new, smaller munge file...and the game won't know the difference. i'm exploring at the moment...and will, too, post results