Shenmue 2 self rip

[Evangelion25]

I've found an other way to do this :
- Create a session with DATA from the game to reach 45000 LBA (I"ve used UltraISO, the Windows calcuator, and some CD-RW)
- merge the data of first session with a mkisofs image of the rest of the game
- inject ip.bin

And it boots !

Removed lots of AHX audio files from FREE01.AFS, but not all, like an other group...

AFS had to be compacted with Darkfalz's Tool.

I think we can make a 99 minutes version with ALL audio.

May be we can downsample AHX files but, i"ve never seen a tool can do that

[Darkfalz]

My Shenmue II rip was a lot of work.

First, I made a patcher for the FREE AFS files to only rip out as many as needed. I also retained small text files in there that contain information for Ryo.

I used data in the first session and imported it into the second session, this really not easy to do but was necessary for the maximum fit. I even preserved the sort order across two sessions! Wow.

It's really a difficult task. Certainlly with 99 min CDs could probably fit nearly all the speech, but who cares, can just play my original if that's so important.

[Xiaopang]

@darkfalz: so your game was a audio/data image then? how did you create two sessions? and how did you preserve the sort order?

[Darkfalz]

data/data multisession. Preserving a sort with a -sorttxt is easy enough, but across two sessions is a lot more work.

[Xiaopang]

but your rip wasn't oversized (80+min), was it?

[Darkfalz]

Each CD standard 80 minutes, filled to the max.