Resident Evil 2 silliness

[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 ??

[Darkfalz]

Originally Posted by 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 ??

That's a horrible way to do it, hacking up the BIN files. Much more elegant to patch the CD file system