Can I delete these files, and remake a iso to burn on dvd disk?

EDIT: sorry for double post, forum script gave me an SQL error

Dave

Yes.

If you want to evade making coasters, I'd suggest doing all work & testing on the xbox hard drive though, then burn if it seems to work decently.

Fight Night 2004

fe/movies/

intro.nfx = 60mb**

**take easports.nfx (located in same folder) and copy it,delete the intro.nfx file, change the name to "intro.nfx" then play the game. it will load the ea sport logo 2x now, instead of intro. saved 60mbs.

Would it be possible to find out if the .nfx files are actually .xmv's or .bik's? Very many developers use their own proprietary extensions.

XMV's play in the UnleashX xbox dashboard
BIK's play in RAD Game Tools on the PC (avail. on the internet)

Just rename the extension and try to play in either of those two programs and see, then more space can be saved.

Edit:

Also with BIK's you can downsample them to save even more space. If there's in game videos that are critical to the game, then you can downsample them to save space instead of ruining the story by deleting them. I'm not sure at all about XMV's, but I'm willing to bet you'd have to have the XDK for that one

Anyone know of any files I can remove from MVP Baseball 2004 and ESPN Baseball 2004 to save me some hdd space ?

i'm gettting that game tonight. i will post my results then.

Sweet mother of god, I love four day weekends.

Ah, yes... Updates!

Added:

007: Everything or Nothing
Alter Echo
Apex
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2
Battlestar Galactica
Black Stone: Magic and Steel
Celebrity Death Match
Dynasty Wariors 4
Gunmetal
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PAL)
Italian Job, The
Kill.Switch
Project Zero (PAL)
Quidditch World Cup
Whiteout

And, now at 181 games with 84.76 GB saved.

If u guys have ANY idea how often I refer to this section......
LOVE this thread, real space-saver.
KBCB

JUST GET A BIGGER HARDRIVE YOU.....UCK

has anyone done wwe raw2? or Nba Ballers yet?

87.06 GB saved from 195 games.

Hmmm... Getting close to the 200 game mark. That's almost half way through all games released so far. Too bad I'm getting close too running out of games to rip through myself.

UPDATES!!!:

Barbarian (PAL)
Beyond Good and Evil
Bionicle
Blade II
Break Nine World Billiards Tournament (NTSC/J)
Conan (PAL), thanks to Angerwound
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Curse: The Eye of Isis
ESPN Major League Baseball, thanks to Angerwound
Freaky Flyers
Futurama (PAL)
Haunted Mansion
Hunter: The Reckoning
IHRA Drag Racing
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X

Wow, I try to help out as much as possible but Rahszhul is the man.

Does anybody have a list of Games and there size please. This would be really helpful for my interest.

Cheers

Red Devil

Red Devil,

Check in earlier pages of this thread. I remember listing links to several threads, programs, and others that maintained lists of games and their full sizes.

I've been asked about adding such info to my database, and I've put thought into it.

I may do it sometime next weekend. ...maybe.

Edit:
Specifically, this post http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?sho...ndpost&p=975610

And another post about 6-7 posts down from XBOX Ware3z.

Rahszhul,

Thanks. You are most helpfull, can now work out which games to use for multi game backups. Its easier then carrying 100's of games when i stay away.

Keep up the good work

Red Devil

Great collaboration...


anyone tried to remove files from nba ballers?


Keep up the good work.



Just noticed wildwild100s already asked about nba ballers.


Oh well.. hate to double post, but i must commend the good work.

I "fixed" my XBox two weeks ago and already have 80 gigs worth of games. This will definately help make some room for more games.

Thank you all for all the hard work!!

Found a couple more for ya while you're at it!
Some extra deletions for Secret Weapons Over Normandy (NTSC)

Found some more for NHL2K3

Is there anywhere to download a pkg of ALL of these ACL files? Maybe a torrent or gnutella magnet could be created.

Ok I have started at the begining, creating acl files for each of the games. If anyone wants to start at the end that would be great and we can great a downloadable database.

if u guys want i have my own private server lookin to host the files we get from the " usual places " wood any1 b interested in that gonna start a topic on it maybe no illegal games though just apps an bios an stuff

gnutellafan,
An easier way then "creating" all the .acl's and saving them each, would be to contact me and ask about working up a remake of my acl script to write the files itself.

The main problem with saving each and every one of them is keeping the acl pack up to date with my database.

I think if I were to create that script I could help you out with that. I'll just have to figure out how to get php to write to a file, and I'll get a copy of the acl pack out there.

toyato89,
Thanks, I'll get that info in the DB.

And yeah, I haven't tested the new blank.xmv myself yet.

Rahszhul,
Sounds like that would have been a good idea a few hours ago. Anyway, I created acls for all the files. If you want the pack I can send it to you for hosting. Its only 115kb, so if your script could create a pack in the future that would be great and make updating all of them easy. Someone should look into adding network code to dvd2xbox to check the web for acl files for each game as you put it in the drive.

There is a copy of all the ACL's on IRC in the #MXM Channel. Under my file server..... trigger ~SlackNet~

Playing around with MVP Baseball 2004 NTSC, looks like not much can be removed, unless maybe you want to relink (whcih I don't do, I like movies), but there is a demo video of other EA games.

I believe it's the file \data\frontend\movies\x_sell.mad

If I delete this file, and choose the EA Sports Presents option under the EA Sports Extras menu, the game will freeze, but the music will continue. IRG doesn't work.

If you copy the file back, the games demo video plays, suggesting this is the correct file. I have NOT YET tested if the rest of the game works fine by removing this file, but I don't see why it wouldn't. Other EA games are similar in this fashion.

x_sell.mad is 140.11mb, so by deleting this file you save 140.11mb, making MVP 2969.2 MB (according to Qwix). (whoo, sub 3gb).

I didn't read other posts in this thread, my internet is rather slow ATM, so apologies if someone else has posted this. If not, this is my contribution. I will double check it tomorrow or later tonight.

SlackNet,
Thanks for hosting those out on IRC.

Joshua Wood,
MVP Baseball isn't even a listed game. Thanks for finding that.

All else,
Well, I got the acl pack script up and running. And god damn.. what a resource hog. This script is staying on my machine and not going live, but the output will

One slight oddity though... There are a few games listed in the database that share TitleID's with other games. Granted, the "other" game is the same game (PAL vs. NTSC). And with the oddity that is, only one of the acl's is created. Whichever version of the game happened to enter into the databse last is the acl that is generated.

That may cause some issues for those people who don't pay attention. I've added a "readme" to the acl pack, and hopefully people MIGHT read it



UPDATES!!!
Added Fight Night 2004 - thanks to sulfur
Added MVP Baseball 2004 - thanks to Joshua Wood

Additions to Midtown Madness 3 from StrvnMrvn
Additions to NFL 2K3 from toyato89
Additions to Secret Weapons Over Normandy from toyato89

Saved 88.79 GB from 197 games. Closing in on 90GB. Wonder how long it'll until we hit 100GB.

Completed acl pack script. Uploaded acl pack, dated 18 Apr '04 to each of the mirrors. Link

Added link for those who have trouble with figuring out how to use acl files. Link

... .... I need more sleep. Holy crap. Fixing...

Edit:
... Fixed NHL/NFL issue. Hey, I said long ago I'm not really a sports fan. This proves it? Or maybe I'm just losing it.

Ok, now that I've slapped myself upside the head with a cold caffeine capsule...

I need your email or an ftp to upload the pack to. Maybe the acl pack could be recompiled weekly or something and shared vie gnutella and a gnutella link provided so there would not be any real bandwith demands for the mirrors.

Does this acl pack posted, have the new updates for...

UPDATES!!!
Added Fight Night 2004 - thanks to sulfur
Added MVP Baseball 2004 - thanks to Joshua Wood

Additions to Midtown Madness 3 from StrvnMrvn
Additions to NFL 2K3 from toyato89
Additions to Secret Weapons Over Normandy from toyato89

gnutellafan,

lol! hey we all have our moments.

uhm... as for the credit thing... I've only looked at games I have and that I've posted stuff for and noticed sometimes my name's not there.

I think the easiest and best way to go about fixing the credit thing is to get everyone who has submitted a game or added some content to the list to check out their own contributions on the site and make sure that their name is on it. If you don't care, then whatever, but for those that do, it only takes a minute or so to skim over the list. That's how I just verified mine. This thread has become a 30 page monster and I couldn't even begin to start looking for who posted what.

007: Nightfire and Secret Weapons Over Normandy are the only ones I've contributed that don't have my name on it. Everything else I've done is ok.

Have fun!

toyato89,
The credits bit has been fixed. Sorry about that. And I'm happy somebody slapped me upside the head and alerted me of some error I had out there. Hope more people do that. Also fixed the foul up with the NHL/NFL confusion I had in the ACL pack. Everything is good now. I think.

...And why wouldn't people want to crawl through this thread? I think this thread has TONS of good info in it. Besides, I've crawled through this thread at least 20 times. I've crawled through this entire forum twice. Ok, so the forum crawling was a mix of boredom and a search for all info remotely related to this thread, I still did it.



Updates!
Added:

Enter the Matrix (Only 11MB. Sorry. Was hoping for much more for those DVD people who might not want to backup a Niobe and Ghost disc.)
I-Ninja
Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death (PAL)
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Magatama (NTSC/J)
Max Payne
Mercedez Benz World Racing (PAL)
Metal Arms: A Glitch in the System
Morrowind: Game of the Year Edition
Pirates of the Caribbean
Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown (PAL)

Saved 90.33 GB from 209 games.

Updated ACL pack (18 Apr '04).

i have games already loaded into my xbox but i loaded them through unleashx. will the acl files work with these games or do the acl files only work with games taht were transfered through dvd2xbox

liemer,
As of right now, only dvd2xbox uses ACL files.

It doesn't matter what you used to copy the game, but as of right now you can only use dvd2xbox to process the ACL files.

ACL files are only a series of commands, so it'd be relatively easy for any other dashboard or disc copier to use ACL files in the future. But I wouldn't say to hold your breath for that any time too soon.

well... if you're anything like me (a university student) you're pretty busy right now with finals until the end of the month, that is if you live in Canada... no idea what goes on in other places, don't care right now either. Ugh.. 2 down 2 to go. Can't wait to be done. There's why I said its too big. If I was home all day doing absolutely nothing, I'd read it over and check for the credit stuff myself, but such is definitely but the case until the end of this month. Once I'm done though, I'll pick up a few new games to celebrate.

Sweet. Cleared up close to 10 gigs! Thanks!

any chance u could do rallisport 2?

Excellant Job Rahszhul, I've been busy with Finals and things lately but it's good to see your still cranking out the rips. ACL Pack was an awesome idea as well.

NICE work.
I was just looking for a way to make some games smaller, and you saved me.

Many thanks.

How do you copy the text of ACL files on the games listed???

For example on Tony Hawk Underground, its say to copy the text into a file named 5451000e.ACL

How do you make this file and copy the text into it???

Thanks

Troy

ACL files are just text files. Just create a new text file with any text editor (like Notepad in Windows) and copy/paste the text into the new file. Save under the specified filename with the ACL extension. Then, transfer the file via FTP into the 'acl' subdirectory of the DVD2XBOX directory.

Wha's acl supposed to do? I'm kinda new at this.