How To Make A Maxi Image?

[glenbo]

i keep seeing them popping up,they are called maxi images,they are a super compressed version of the original game...like 4gb compressed to 122kb and you mount the rar file,and the game starts...works with battlefront 2 and others.

i think this would be the ideal way of getting tiger woods 2006 to work without a disc,by compressing teh courses disc like this.

dont get me wrong,maxis are blank clones,so it is not like i am downloading a full image of a game.

just a blank version of it.

but while im on the subjext,if it is that easy to compress 4gb to 122kb,imagine the prospects..you could do this to your entire game collection,and put them all on to one dvd if it is possible to do it with real games and not just blank clones.

[ASSCAPPER]

let us know when you find more info,i'm noob, i need to know more...more...mooooorrreee......,what the hell's happening to me?

[DABhand]

There is a utility that will remove data and convert to 0's but im buggered if I can remember its name :P

[glenbo]

shame tho,imagine if you could compress all your games to a couple of kb lol,would be amazing.

[ILLUMINATOR23]

I only know how to craete a "Mini Image" ...with MiniImaeRipper

But youre talking abou a max Image...sure

MiniImages are not working with Securom, only Safedisc...
But Maxi Images are universal..

Would be very nice if somebody can give us a tip how to create Maxi Images

[Muji-FightR]

well, mini images are made by doing a normal / real image and filling the image with zero data...
SD and SecuRom look for the files, they can find them, but they will not (not yet !!) look what the file looks like/what it contains...
so they find teh files which are just dummys...
the only problem is making the data in the image to zero data...
that's the point where i suddenly got stuck :P

[caki]

Hmm, Maxis might trick the new Civ4 checks. Anyone have any infos on how 2 create one? I will expiriment a bit once I come home.

[caki]

I am at school now, on a ****ing linux so I cant test this. However, am I missing something, or do you have to unrar this?? If so, it will be 4 gigs. But here's and idea... Use Windows compression on it and windows might compress it back, and you will still be able to use the image. I do it for all my images. Ill try it when I get home

Its funny, I was working on this same concept, but it looks like BLeH beat me to it :P.

[Qui]

Please tell us, if u found a way to make a Maxi-Image...

Need one for Heroes of the Pacific and Conflict Global Storm

[caki]

Hehe guys, just made a mini image using the maxi method, but this is even better

I compressed the file with Windows Compression

Before: 770 MB
After: 1.19 MB


Hehe, here is the mini image for Civ4 that I just made:
removed until i figure out wtf is going on

You will need SD4Hide by skull to use it.
REMEMBER TO COMPRESS WITH WINDOWS TO GET A MINI IMAGE EFFECT!!
Enjoy

Anyone interested in a tut??

EDIT Not a good mini image. Workiing on another. Please be patient...

[Big J Money]

What is SD4Hide, and is there a way to get it other than BitTorrent? I was never able to get that thing working.

[Edit: Nevermind, I found it a lot closer to "home" than I even realized. Or at least, I think this is it.]

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[caki]

SD4Hide:

http://rapidshare.de/files/7156175/sd4hide-skl.rar.html


It hides daemontools from cd protections.

Its very stable and very good to use.

Post No. 300 yay. Hopefully its useful :P

[Qui]

@rendari

Yeah, a Turtorial would be very interesting...

please post it (want to make my own mini/maxi Images)

[caki]

Never mind. I am having the same problems as DABHand had with his mini image. Works on some computers, but not on others...

Wtf??

Ignore the mini image for now...

[Big J Money]

I can't seem to get this mini image to work. I've downloaded DAEMON and I've mounted the file, but I'm still getting the "Please Insert CD..." error. Now I decided to use sd4hide, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Am I supposed to do something to make Civ IV think my CD drive is a different one? Am I supposed to be running SD4hide with command like arguments? Are there DAEMON settings I am supposed to play with?

Ugh...thanks

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