Generic Game Resizing Thread(First attempt to shrink game size (GTA III), need help.)

**scottmbritton** · 11-19-2004,01:20 PM

http://www.psx-scene.com/forums/show...3&postcount=24

cheers!

**scottmbritton** · 11-19-2004,01:23 PM

Originally Posted by zabolyx

About HD Loader crapping it's pants after installing a game over net or with winHIIP is because it is finding the new games... I found that when using FAPLink to transfer a few smaller games I had to delete the settings partition for HD Loader... it then sits there and rebuilds all of the data in the partition... and will find all of the new games... WinHIIP probably does this as well (delete the settings partition).

I think WinHIIP (latest) goes the extra step and re-builds the list for HD Loader.

**Eduardoml** · 11-20-2004,04:27 AM

Thanks Scottmbritton

muzzymate · 11-23-2004,10:36 PM

More shrinkage happenings:

SSX 3 - Removed 2 dummy files resulting in a 512MB reduction
Megaman X Command Mission - Removed a 1.25GB dummy file

Both are working happily in their new slimmer size...

ddrllama · 11-24-2004,07:24 AM

Jak 3 (USA)

This isn't deleting dummies (as there were none that I saw), but there are several extra language files you can delete. As long as you have it set (in the game options) to use English, the game will play fine.

I got it from 4.3gb to ~2.8gb by deleting
/VAG/VAGWAD.FRE
/VAG/VAGWAD.GER
/VAG/VAGWAD.ITA
/VAG/VAGWAD.SPA

They are 367mb each. There's another one called "VAGWAD.COM" that I'm almost positive you can delete too, but I haven't had the time to try it over again.

The method I used was simply dragging the files into CDGENPS2 and saving it as an iso.
The only ordering change I made was I added the file with the lowest LBA first, added everything else, then added the file with the highest LBA. However I don't even know if this is necessary.

**Vegeta** · 11-24-2004,09:31 AM

Alien Hominid succesfully shrinked down from 1.3GB to 954MB replacing PADDING.DAT with a 0 byte file of the same name.

It works.

**OEP** · 11-26-2004,01:04 PM

Thanks for the tutorials guys. I've tried it with the games mentioned and am happy with the results. I will be doing this with all the new games I install.

Thanks again!

**Lifegrind** · 11-26-2004,02:03 PM

This is a good thread.

**TL0** · 11-26-2004,05:40 PM

Successfully shrunk Second sight - PAL from 4.36GB to 1.3GB, just extracted & re-built the ISO.

Should also work on the NTSC release as both use the same LBA trick.

drewmerc · 11-27-2004,02:37 AM

can someone rename this thread did not care about shrinking gta so never read it now i have i know what ive been missing

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