Save HD space

I have just ripped just about my entire game collection to my HD but I am running out of room with only a few games left. I know a very simple solution is to buy a bigger HD but if I don't need to I don't want to. I remember reading somewhere on here about a program that scans your game structure and removes all firmware updates, extra language, and extra features that werent needed to make game rips smaller. Hell I remember trying it out once, but at the time I only owned a couple games and I preferred my games in tact as opposed to saving 1 gig. Now I don't remember for the life of me what the program was called. The closest I found in my search was using ASTOOLS but it only does one game at a time and doesn't get everything.

Can anyone help my memory?

I have never seen such program myself, but none the less - deleting the firmware update in game and extra languages is pretty easy to do yourself via FTP.

Well I found it. It's part of aldostools called ps3rip. And I would have loved to do it all manually if it were easy. After running the program I freed 30GB from my HD, 8 GB from firmware which would have been easy and 22 GB from languages (about 12000 files) which would not have been fun to do manually.

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Originally Posted by Originally posted by user Piratan on Ps3crunch forums

PS3 RIP is a great tool. just be very careful. It also warns you and go as far to even move the files not needed into another folder.

I used it to free up lots of space. But after many games was working fine I decided to go ahead and delete the backup folder, then today I ran into a problem.

Portal 2 was working fine being ripped. Then I deleted the installed data to free up space, then today when I went to re-install it. It errors out during install. It seems some games require the other languages files to be present when installing Game Data. Not all, just some. so now I am going back through my game list to see which ones do. Luckily I own the Discs.

so far I have ran into problems with

Marvel Vs Capcom
Portal 2

I am sure there will be others.

They work fine if they are ripped if you already installed the game data, but won't work vice versa. Just a heads up.

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Thanks for the heads up, and yes I always back up before I test :)