Resident Evil 2 silliness

[Capcom Man]

Originally Posted by Darkfalz

using my own LBA relinker they are still present on the CD.

Would you mind posting that LBA relinker? I'm just like you, I hate downsampling anything and want to keep the games as orginal as possible.

[DrEaMpLaY]

But you can always make better version of your backup than orginal game ( yours favorite songs, voices or movies etc)

[Darkfalz]

Originally Posted by Capcom Man

Would you mind posting that LBA relinker? I'm just like you, I hate downsampling anything and want to keep the games as orginal as possible.

All my DC tools can be found on my homepage.

[Excalibur007]

I have never understood how to use that relinker. Would you mind posting a quick how-to?

[Darkfalz]

The file you wish to rip, replace it with a file of 0 bytes with the same name. You can do this easily by deleting it, then using the right click windows thing to create a new text document, and just rename it to the old file.

Now once you built your ISO, use the Single File LBA Copier. Put the ISO in the ISO field (duh), put the file with the data in the second field and the 0 byte one in the second field. Click "Copy" and you're done!

[Excalibur007]

Thank you very much. Worked like a charm. I used the singlefile lba copier to eliminate 74 files totaling 19.1 MB. It took a while to do each file individually, but I still don't know how to use the "multiplefile lba copier".
I also added a dummy file of 14 MB to bring the total size to 698 MB and sorted the files as well. Loading times are great. This makes for ONE more GDROM to be put away for safe keeping.

I'm glad you said that about Resident Evil 2. I've been putting off ripping it because I was dreading the downsampling. I too, am very picky about how I downsample. I try to find a bitrate that keeps as much quality as possible and use the same bitrate on every file to be downsampled, leaving little-to-no room to spare afterwards. Knowing that info about RE2, I'll go ahead and rip it as soon as my PC is fixed. It also makes me curious about several other games I've had to do a lot of downsampling with. It would be nice if we came up with a list of games that have duplicate files like Maken X and RE2.

-Ex

[Darkfalz]

The multiple one can generate a script but only so long as the files are identical. You can edit it manually though. It's not just for identical files, but to replace say, the Japanese speech with the English speech (ripping the Japanese speech, but allowing it to be selectable without crashing, which will just use the English speech anyway - it's clean this way).

[DrEaMpLaY]

There is other way to cut off identical files but all of the files must have identical name. Rename all files in main bin. It working only with katana games and fixing crc is not needed. I tried to find file names in wince's without succes. Maybe they are byte swapped ??