Resident Evil 2 silliness

Relinking identical files is SO COOL!

But even professional rippers can miss those identical files... I remember a Maken X rip by a well known group that was released as non-selfboot, and they even claimed that was impossible to make it selfboot without overburn.
But if you looked up closely, there were many identical files that could be relinked, saving enough space to selfboot it without overburn.

I guess that a good practice is to do a "DIR /OS" to see if there are identical size files... then they can be CRC32 checked to confirm the duplicate.

If only those nasty D2 discs had identical files to relink... I still have the full 4 gd-roms ripped in my HD waiting for a miracle.

[Darkfalz]

I self booted it the exact same way :P (And Yes, Kalisto also missed this on their release of RE2 - heh).

Another one is Psychic Force 2012... lots of repeated P04 files, just enough for me to make a boot disc version... which ws okay sine the game doesn't support VGA anyway.

[darklegion]

Originally Posted by bucanero

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If only those nasty D2 discs had identical files to relink... I still have the full 4 gd-roms ripped in my HD waiting for a miracle.

There is a new 5 99Min CD (disc 3 split into 2 discs) release of that just coming through on the newgroups now.I'd post the NFO but I assume its not allowed?

Originally Posted by darklegion

There is a new 5 99Min CD (disc 3 split into 2 discs) release of that just coming through on the newgroups now.I'd post the NFO but I assume its not allowed?

Yeah, I've seen the .nfo about this first D2 rip.... I'vent seen any comments yet, if the disc images works fine or not... but I guess they're not a fake.

time will tell

[DrEaMpLaY]

Originally Posted by bucanero

Yeah, I've seen the .nfo about this first D2 rip.... I'vent seen any comments yet, if the disc images works fine or not... but I guess they're not a fake.

time will tell

No its not

[darklegion]

Originally Posted by DrEaMpLaY

No its not

Good to hear!
Now i've just got to find out if my burner(s) supports 99min cd's (I've heard mixed reports)
FYI I have a Pioneer 106D, and 110D (the latter has problems with even 'reading' 99min cds, from what I've heard)
Just waiting on the discs to arrive, so I can try for myself.

[darklegion]

Originally Posted by darklegion

Good to hear!
Now i've just got to find out if my burner(s) supports 99min cd's (I've heard mixed reports)
FYI I have a Pioneer 106D, and 110D (the latter has problems with even 'reading' 99min cds, from what I've heard)
Just waiting on the discs to arrive, so I can try for myself.

Just had a go burning the game with both of the mentioned burners.The 106D wouldn't overburn at all and the 110D would overburn but not enough to burn the first disc (was short just a few MB).I ended up wasting most of the 99min cd's I had thinking it was a speed or program issue because simulation mode was working fine.These burner's can't do multisession in raw dao mode BTW, so don't even try using RAW dao with Alcohol 120%.CDrecord can burn the game fine too, provided overburn works properly but I used a newer version than what comes with Echelon's selfboot.
One last note: Nero 6.6.0.16 did not handle things well at all.As soon as it reaches the point where it can't overburn any further (even in simulation mode), it crashes and can't be closed even by force-closing it with the task manager (under windows XP).The drive made some very grating noises while this is happening too and I had to reboot in order to get the drive to reset itself and allow me to eject the disc

If I get some spare cash I might pick up a Liteon CDRW, they are pretty damn cheap these days and they can overburn reliably unlike the Pioneer drives.