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[rulevoid]

QUOTE(moreniu @ Mar 17 2010, 08:44 PM)

So, let me get this right.

To run a multi disc game like FFXIII should I:
a) Make an iso of each disc;
Extract all files from each disc to one folder using lets say iso2god (idc about the folder name);
c) Merge all three disc folders into one, overwriting or skiping the doubled files;
d) Send it to the usb drive then make an nxe link with quickboot.

Will it work?

Yes.

[moreniu]

Yep it does, no problem at all with FFXIII, using exiso + quickboot and it is doing well, thanks!

[Kyo13]

Hi everyone !

Need a little help here please ! We're trying (a little group of 3 peoples) to understand how to play Star Ocean with only one "disc" (one folder).

The first idea was to compile all soz0.bin files together, and compile all soz1.bin files together, but I was wrong ... I wasn't thinking about the FAT32 limitation, that doesn't allow me to copy bigger files than 4Go.

So the second idea is like other one says here : rename bin files like that :

- soz0.bin = soz0.bin Disc1
- soz1.bin = soz1.bin Disc1
- soz2.bin = soz0.bin Disc2
- soz3.bin = soz1.bin Disc2
- soz4.bin = soz0.bin Disc3
- soz5.bin = soz1.bin Disc3

So now we have to modify the files who indicates bin files ... in fact the XeX file !

After decompressing and decryting the file using XeXTool, we have a 12Mo XeX File, opened with an hexadecimal editor, the words "soz0.bin" and "soz1.bin" can be found !

I've tried many things, but no result for me, all I can say at this point (with 16 bytes per row on the hexadecimal editor) :

- All 3 XeX (Disc1, Disc2, Disc3) have the same lenght and are similar execpt for offsets 260 to 16E2.
- 16E2 offset indicates the number of the disc.
- 16E3 offset indicates the total number of discs.

The words "soz.0bin" and "soz1.bin" are after offset 16E2, so in the similar offsets of the XeX files. Seems like a description of what contains bin files follow these words on the XeX file (So seems like all Bin files have same files inside ! All the same names too ! So decompile bin files, who was another idea, isn't a good idea I think.)

I'm just a noob in hexadecimal edition, if someone better can see that please ? I can up the 3 originals XeX to work on it if needed !

Many thanks to the person who will help us, this is for all JTag's RPG lovers ...

Funny thing anyway : I've tried modify XeX file many times, someone gave me a disc2 savegame ... In my tests, I succesfully launch the game with the XeX, choosing a new game (so Disc1) or choosing to continue savegame (so Disc2) is working ! But when I try to changing planet : I have the disc screen that seems Ok (with the little sound) but go to black screen.
Trying this with a disc in the tray ... asking me for Disc2 when loading the savegame !
I've understand that in fact, by chance, the place of the Disc2 where was the character in the savegame seems to be on the Disc1 too ! Any another planet give me black screen (yeah also disc1 planets). And eject tray can return to NXE dash when the game does black screen.

EDIT : Oops Sorry, need to say : Jasper 512Mb with XBReboot3 and region free patch. So patching XeX isn't necessary for me ... (I mean for region or sign etc ...). No one's telling his JTag method ! And when altered XeX of Final Fantasy XIII come out, I've used it ! Totally usefull for me ... but it's not indicates that the XeX files is modified only for Freebot (works fine on XBReboot3 but not necessary !).

This post has been edited by Kyo13: Mar 23 2010, 11:24 AM

[tbb033]

I still don't see why some people are saying you need to remove img.key for FF13, yet when I didn't I encountered no problems.

I'm not even saying they're wrong about removing and I'm right about not removing it, maybe it does cause problems for some people and not others, but why?

Nothing very special about my setup. Just a straight forward Falcon JTAG w/XBR3 using either XexMenu or Freestyle to launch the game from a USB HDD. Just copied the files w/out overwriting, and deleted System Update folder (like I do with every game).

[j005u]

So no one else has had a problem with ME2 crashing after starting the suicide mission? I've tried copying / overwriting both ways and it still crashes for me :/

[xmugen360]

i am pretty sure i loaded disc 1 when i played the suicide mission just beat the game sat....with extracted iso folders from xex menu...when i would get disc unreadable i would just switch discs and load my autosave like previous poster said...

[Keksz]

I am at the point to play with Star Wars The Force Unleashed (Ultimate Sith Edition) which is on 2 DVDs

How do I need to go further?

1) extract the .ISO files:
with ISO2GOD? or Exiso?

2) Merge all disc folders into one (DVD2 into DVD1):

Do I need to overwrite?
or
Do I need to skip files?


What is the "best" way? or a working way? :-D

[Kyo13]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) In fact I've tried it today .... for Star Wars The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition ...

I've tried to copy all files from the disc 2 to the disc 1 folder (skipping same named files) the result is approximatly 7.60Go.

The game is running but there still a problem with savegames after that !

I've played earlier with the standard edition of the game, and have one savegame, running on both games ! But when I try to merge disc 1 and 2, the savegame doesn't work anymore !

Will try to copy file from disc1 to disc2 folder (skipping same named files again), but I don't think that will solve the problem. My savegame works fine with the standard edition of the game, and with the Disc1 of the Ultimate Sith Edition .... so no reason that it doesn't works with the merged version .... because I have keeps the files from the disc 1 !

I don't really understand .... I will try to see all differences between disc 1 and 2 (in term of data), but It will be helpfull to know when the disc 2 is asked ?!

EDIT : And use Exiso to extract ISO ..... ISO2GOD don't extract ISO files ! It will convert the ISO file to Game-On-Demand format, totally different !

This post has been edited by Kyo13: Apr 3 2010, 10:05 AM

[Keksz]

QUOTE(Kyo13 @ Apr 3 2010, 11:01 AM)

EDIT : And use Exiso to extract ISO ..... ISO2GOD don't extract ISO files ! It will convert the ISO file to Game-On-Demand format, totally different !

Yeah I know, but within ISO2GOD there is a field Disc 1/1
I thought maybe that would be a solution.

[wulfie]

so what IS the consensus of playing FFXIII on freestyle dash/xexmenu?  Extract all discs, overwritting, not overwritting, using latest iso2god?

[SlickWilly440]

Well, for Final Fantasy XIII, just extract each disc to a separate folder. Then cut/paste the contents of the second disc into the first folder and click yes to overwrite any folder BUT NOT files. Then do the same thing for the disc 3 contents. Finally you should have one folder with all the contents from all 3 discs.

You can extract the discs into separate folders onto the usb hdd, then do the cut/paste from their. The reason that you don't want to just extract all 3 discs in the same folder is because the program you are using to extract the disc is just going to automatically over write the files you don't want to over write (If you do it this way, you might have to delete the img.key file (I had to) to get the game to boot & I'm not sure if you'll run into any issues or not).

If myself have use this method (extracted 3 discs to separate folder then cut/paste), and I am currently on disc 3 Chapter 11 of the game (There are 13 Chapters in the game).

The disc swap occurs during the transition after Chapter 4 to Chapter 5 and between Chapter 9 and Chapter 10.

I was originally playing with just the 3 discs extracted into separate folders and thought I could just save during the transition from Chapter 4 to 5, but when I got to the loading screen after Chapter 4 there was no option to save (like with pretty much every chapter and major cutscene) and the game was just trying to load the next chapter without any message about switching discs.

Once I cut/pasted the 2nd discs contents into the 1st discs, the loading screen from Chapter 4 to 5 loaded fine, only then did the game ask me if I wanted to save or not (Which is kind of weird and backwards). I assumed this same thing would happen between the transition from Chapter 9 to 10, so I went ahead and cut/pasted the 3rd disc contents in with the 1 discs folder, and didn't run into any problems when proceeding to chapter 10.

This post has been edited by SlickWilly440: Apr 8 2010, 09:53 AM

[GTRagnarok]

Now we just need a method for games with same file names on each disc :/

[Keksz]

QUOTE(GTRagnarok @ Apr 9 2010, 07:27 AM)

Now we just need a method for games with same file names on each disc :/

That would be iso2god if it would recognise those games as a 2 disc game.
There is a field in the tool, which is "1 of 1 disc".
But couldn't figured it out how it works (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

[Kyo13]

GOD isn't the answer at all (I think) ...

If you install a game like GOD you will have one game by disc ... So you will have 3 GOD in the example of Star Ocean ! What do you want to do with this ? I don't know a program who will combine GOD ...

Convert GOD to ISO will change nothing ---> Back to the system files ---> same problem : files have same names ....

Excuse me for Final Fantasy XIII .... make me a little upset ... if you read the post the answer is near to 10 time posted ... A few people try to find solution to another problem ... and the only answer I see is (again) for FFXIII .... well thanks, we know .... let people searching a little ... more interresting to do here ...

I explain what I've see with Star Ocean, just need a little help now .... so maybe people can do like me ? Trying something ?! See what you can find ... and maybe we will find a solution together !

Thanks.

This post has been edited by Kyo13: Apr 9 2010, 06:04 PM

[Keksz]

I know it, but if you open the iso2god app there is an option "Disc [ ] / []"
But it doesn't work if I change it to 1/2 and 2/2, within the GOD the same filenames are extracted

But maybe someone will do that further to work.