I own a large number of Dreamcast games and had have a great deal of fun and challenge ripping and backing them up for my own personal use.
I am also a bit of a perfectionist with regards to this...
The last two nights I have been working on Resident Evil 2. Standard downsampling job. But not for me, because I like using round numbers, getting it as close to full as possible, downsampling the higher bitrate files, larger files and so on... it be can be a headache because of my nitpicking ways!
Finally, after settling on a final downsampling strategy for both discs, I noticed in the root folder three identical sized, similarly named files with identical time stamps.
Hrm, I thought. It's not possible they are the same, is it?
Sure enough, they are CRC32 identical!
D'OH!
Removing the two reduntant copies left me PLENTY of room for a selfboot with no need to downsample anything. Of course, using my own LBA relinker they are still present on the CD.
So even us seasoned pros do stupid things now and again.
He he.