possible to shrink god of war?

**leidout** · 07-02-2005,02:35 AM

hey there folks, i've searched around for a while, and haven't been able to find an answer to this. the large gow thread is a little confusing to read thru too, since the hdl patches changed some of the relevant info... anyways....

i have an original GOW disc, and i made an iso using DVD decrypter, but the file is huge, like almost 8gb! i know almost everyone uses the CoNfUsIoN downloaded version, but i was wondering if there was a way to manually shrink it down, i tried the regular way using isobuster and cdgenPS2, but that just created a file of the same size.

anyone have any idea how to shrink the iso down? it doesn't seem like theres a full 8gb of data on it...

**woodyos** · 07-02-2005,09:04 AM

In order to shrink it, I think some movies were downsampled and some bonusfeatures removed. It'll require some reprogramming in the game itself; it'd be better to download that Confusion release you heard about.

**snake3** · 07-02-2005,02:47 PM

i think there is a rip kit on http://www.alucard.cc/

**thereal_zap** · 07-02-2005,07:43 PM

yeah, sonic created a tool and some tutorials to take it down to a dvd5. the simplest way involves just cutting out the 'extras' video files and a couple others, then relink them.

that's the way i have it on my hdd too, no need to waste an extra 2-3gb just for 'extras' bs.

japroach · 07-03-2005,02:46 AM

Yeah the warez version is missing the extras videos but works perfectly, zero load times or lags.

The HD gets quite warm after playing

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**Bairsairk** · 07-03-2005,03:07 PM

Is it possible to decrease size of the iso without downsampling ?
There are some dummy duplicated files and other languages to delete in the *pak files to take less space on the hard disk drive.
Someone already try it ?

**leidout** · 07-04-2005,06:40 PM

thanks a lot folks! i've only got an 60gb hard drive, so every little bit of space helps!

japroach · 07-05-2005,01:37 AM

hm the game just froze at a save area. Its the one right after climbing up to the pandoras box castle on the guys back.

Going to try skipping that save completely.

**leidout** · 07-06-2005,01:41 AM

can someone post that tool here please?

**sparkycat** · 07-10-2005,11:21 AM

hi all i dont post often but here is what i have and did,

firstly i copied my pal retail god of war to my hd loader hard drive , ive got the 0.7 c latest elf file booting up, any way when i transferred it i notiiced that the copy was only 3.75gb in size, i didnt know at the time that the disk is nearly 8gb in size, i just wanted it to go on to the hard drive so it would boot/load faster. anyway, i was browsing through the various hd loader related sites and it seems hat everybody has a problem backing it up, remembering thet when transferred it it was only 3.7gb in size, i began to wonder so i took the hard drive out of the ps2 and took the god of war image off of it with winhiip and the image still stayed at 3.7gb i burned this image back onto a dvd with dvd decrypter and lo and behold the damn thing works. ive been playing it for the past 2 hours with the backup disk, i have a modchip"messiah 2" by the way too

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