Gamer,
Space/Bandwidth shouldn't be an issue. The sites were plain html output, nothing flashy or pretty, just some php scripts that made a call to a database.

The database wasn't too big either. The SQL statements that make up the database are only ~350Kb as a .txt file.

I'm going to have to do a little bit of research, as my database on the free server may have just been deleted. I won't know for sure until I can re-get all the happy fun software I had installed. (New computer:P:lol:)


AJay,
Movie replacements are not handled by the ACLs. I made the ACLs with the idea that I want everyone out there to do as little as possible to make them work. To do the Movie replacements properly, it'd require that everyone that uses my ACls to put blank or replacement movies in the exact same spot, like E:\Blank\


Everything else,
It's been known since this thread's inception, that it was only going to be temp-pinned. It has been added to the "Important / Key Threads" pinned thread though. ...which means I'll probably not get as many visits to my thread/site if I end up getting sent "somewhere" again like what just happened.

Thanks to you guys helping out turbodtalon durring my un-announced absence.

Anyways, I'll do what I can to get back on track and read back a few pages.

Anyone know if there are files to free on V8 Supercars Australia 2 and Soul Calibar 2?



I'm also wondering if Cell Damage was a PAL release as well as an NTSC release.

I've not played the game long enough to know if it has detrimental effects further down the road, but- on chronicles of riddick i've removed the dashupdate.xbe, update.xbe and Extra Content folder saving 700 odd mb, now if you go to the extra content, you cant select credits or the walk through,

anyone verfied that this is ok? couldn't find it on any of the mirrored sites?

are you planning on putting any more asl's on those websites that are linked to on this forum

looking for any Links 2004 deletions...

thanks

Alright, the time to cry is now. Well, maybe for me only. I finally finished-finished building my new comp, and recovering data, and that fun crap.

Well, specifically, two very in-depth php's that were never pushed out to the mirrored sites (my aclpack creation script, and XS post generation script for the first post in this thread) have been corrupted.

Everything else, like the site components actually out on the mirrors didn't suffer anything like this.

But, this gives me an opportunity to rework those scripts like I wanted to, as they were eating way too much processor time. (Crappy SQL statements.) .. Taking up to an hour to generate all the acl files for the aclpack.

Anyways, I'll be working on that when I get the chance to, or when real-life work decides to give me a break.

Rahszhul
i think u should start a new topic of the deletions, this topic has too many pages now

ok lets get the files needed for espn nfl 2k5

yeah that game is FREAKING HUGE 6003 megs...ouch

Can someone maybe add a link to the site that says how big the game file is before it is altered?

espn football 2k5

60003 megs...ouch...I'm working right now (in conjuction with my pc) to figure out what (if any) files can be taken off (since the game has some lengthy loading times and i would rather just run from my hdd, trust me i payed my twwenty bucks for this gem)

file layout
ROOT

DASHUPDATE.XBE 55.71 MB unneeded
DEFAULT.XBE 11.39 MB
UPDATE.XBE 2.22 MB unneeded

/F:/Games/ESPN NFL 2K5/vc_53450030/
0 - 184.74 MB needed...black screen on boot without
1 - 286.10 MB game plays but has graphical glitches (white stands)
2 - 294.93 MB game plays but cut scenes dont play (coming out of the tunnel, sideline reactions...excy
3 - 300.89 MB game plays...missing overlay images in the cut scenes
4 - 298.67 MB game plays...missing on field sound effects
5 - 293.71 MB game plays...missing commentary and player photos on overlays whited out
6 - 437.00 MB tries to play but hangs after a swami-less pregame
7 - 304.41 MB game plays...lacks in game commentary after pregame predictions
8 - 886.32 MB tries to play but hangs at loading screen
9 - 605.53 MB works fine unless you try go in first person mode...then hangs
A - 295.92 MB crashes when you try to start a game...i'd image its either the player or stadium models since the only thing that showed on the screen was the blimp with a sky behind it)
B - 437.02 MB crahses when you start a game
C - 300.53 MB crashes when you start a game
D - 294.81 MB hangs at sega logo
E - 287.83 MB game plays fine without just cutscenes are blacked out (think intros and sideline reactions ect...)
F - 430.81 MB extras videos...as long as you dont try to play one everything runs pretty well

you can save 1013.04 megs if you dont mind ditching the cut scenes and extras videos...still not enough to get it onto a stanard dvd (i think)

ok for the new game Shadow Ops: Red Mercury. You can save 1.83GB by deleting the following language only folders which contain the same movies and information but in another language > "DE" "ES" "FR" "IT" each folder is around 470mb.

If you take out first person view and the cutscenes on NFL 2k5 how much space does that take?

k6kicker, did you finally get espn nfl 2k5 to fit on a dvd-5 disk? im searching to see what files can be deleted without harming the game, your help, or anyone that knows of espn nfl2k5 would be gladly accepted, thanks@lot!

You should add Riddick up there. You could take out (obviously) update.xbe and dashupdate.xbe

What's the basic purpose of a .acl file?

Trying Myself to back up my copy of NFL 2K5, but dont know which files to dump anyone know exactly which ones gotta go to get it to fit onto a Disc?
None of the files have any indication of what is what so if anyone could please name them

hoohah im waiting on those results too, so far i know you can delete the xbox live files for sure, but after that i dont know what will work

any one figure out how to cut down nfl2k5 yet?

I cut all cutscenes, extra videos, and the entire 1st person mode, and the end result is still just a tiny bit too big for a standard 4.7 gig DVD. someone will have to hack this one, and it aint gonna be me.

yeah take off the update and dashupdate files, along with 2 9 e and f and you should be able to burn it (down to 4.24 gigs) and it will play fine sans the extra videos, cut scenes, first person, and more then likely some crib features (that stupid celeb challenges and whatnot)...i havent tried it since i really dont need another copy right now, if anyone else feels the need go right ahead...if i can find a way to cut just the vids and keep the cool features ill mention it, but dont hold your breath

Title: Sudeki
Title ID: 4D53000A
Original size: 3.54GB
Space saved: 647MB (can be more if you want to get rid of videos)

Relinked Videos in \Movies (a blank .bik worked fine for me)
ClimaxLogo.bik
FMA01_poem.bik => Setting of the story, after you press start for a new game.
MS Game Studios Logo-final.bik
Sudeki Atttract Mode.bik

Language Files
\sound\fre
\sound\ger

I checked the opening bik file "FMA02_ic.bik" and it can be relinked to! I haven't the time to play through but so far every .bik file is relinkable. The Movies folder is 1.56GB so is you want to cut out game material go right ahead, I just haven't tested it.
My recommendation is to watch the FMA01_poem.bik vid once and then relink it and leave the rest there.

Virtucon
Edit: space saved wasn't right

Am I right in thinking that the ACL files on here will simply not work for my PAL games unless stated?

Also does anyone have a link and info for that script Rahszhul made to generate ACLs?

Cheers.

Can someone post a blank.bik and blank.xmv? (and any other blank vid formats that xbox can use)

I can host they somewhere if the files aren't too big.

PM me if you can't post a link to work something out.

Thanks,
- Edirol

I need a blank.wmv too.

blank bik in my sig

as for blank wmv- well get windows movie maker or radtools to encode a black jpeg to wmv format

Just a quice question Rahszhul:

Do the ACL files also work on the PAL versions of the games??

Just noticed that you have included some PAL versions in the list..

Cheers

So its safe to delete dashupdate.xbe and update.xbe. What were they used for in the first place and what do i lose by Deleteing them? Thanks

those files are used for Xbox Live. So files sitting on a modded xbox, on hard drive somewhere that refer to Xbox Live, are completely USELESS. Feel free to delete at will. You will never update the game, download levels, make use of downloadable content or even play people online through Xbox Live.

Hey Rahszhul, how's it going with your computer? I'm just wondering if you're going to go back through this file and add the deletions recently posted, like my extra deletions for Future Tactics: The Uprising (NTSC). I have a bunch more deletions to post too.

pelago,

The computer's going good. Things are running decently, and I do have all previous updates posted to my personal version of the database.

I've been working on updating the scripts/sql statements and just bringing everything to a better way of doing things. That, and the new version of dvd2xbox having capabilities of NTSC and PAL ACLs for each game... I've had to devise a way that I'm going to upgrade my script/database to support that. And I need to know what games I have deletions for NTSC, that the same deletions hold true for PAL versions. (This I'll need help from everyone out there.)

I'm also looking at getting my own hosting, so I can put a few of my other projects out there.

Oddly enough, I get to take a "long trip" again, but this time I get to take my computer . So, I may get things done out there too.

Does the recently released version of dvd2xbox(0.5.9) have all the new acl files for games like driv3r, Riddick, Spectrum Warrior, Mafia. I've noticed that your site hasn't been updated in a while(all acl file was from 23 mar,04). Thanks. Overfiend.

P.S was there ever any deletions made to DOA 3?

I'm not 100% Sure on this, but as i was Copying Soul Calibur 2 onto my xbox, it failed to copy movie.afs, outa the 4 or 5 files on the actual cd. I ran the game w/o the movie.afs copied, and it worked fine, maybe there was a missing intro scene, but the gameplay was fine. I went through the whole game w/ one character and unlocked some modes and all the cinematic scenes were fine. I don't think this file is needed, but it might be. In any case, i'm just trying to support your webpage!

A question i cant solve...
for the acl files do i have to change anything that you wrote or do i just copy EVERYTHING in the box(from the site) and save it as the name says?(the game is on my hd)

Some additional deletions for:
Otogi: Myth of Demons (NTSC)
HexID 0x46530002

Language files:
/gauge/combo_kr.dds
/media/DiscErr_kr.dds
/menu/fe_ig006_kr.dds
/menu/fe_lo002_kr.dds
/menu/fe_me005_kr.dds
/menu/fe_me009_kr.dds
/menu/fe_me010_kr.dds
/menu/fe_ti000_kr.dds
/menu/fe_ti007_kr.dds
/menu/fe_ti009_kr.dds
/menu/bin/mainmenu_kr.med
/menu/bin/mainmenu_jp.med
/Sound/actvoice_JP.xps

These are in addition to the files already on the site, which for reference are:
Unneeded Stuff
/movie/
Language Files
/Sound/stream/stream_JP.dat
/Sound/stream/stream_JP.xps

The total space saved goes up from 570,939,952 bytes to 572,950,896 bytes (i.e. another 2 MB)

Deletions for
Mashed (NTSC)
HexID 0x454D000A

Language Files
/Audio/XboxDics/french (35,940,352 bytes)
/Audio/XboxDics/german (40,804,352 bytes)
/Audio/XboxDics/italian (41,101,312 bytes)
/Audio/XboxDics/spanish (38,991,872 bytes)
These are the audio taunts that are in the game. If you don't like them even in English you can delete the /Audio/XboxDics/english folder (38,336,512 bytes) too.

Unneeded stuff
/ToastArt/Xbox/Movies/Empire_NTSC.XMV (1,077,248 bytes)
/ToastArt/Xbox/Movies/supersonic_NTSC.xmv (1,687,552 bytes)
/ToastArt/Xbox/Movies/dd_NTSC.xmv (1,851,392 bytes)
The above three aren't used at all in the game.

Unneeded stuff
/ToastArt/Xbox/Movies/dd_PAL.xmv (1,851,392 bytes)
/ToastArt/Xbox/Movies/EmpNTSC.xmv (2,207,744 bytes)
/ToastArt/Xbox/Movies/EmpPAL.xmv (2,301,952 bytes)
/ToastArt/Xbox/Movies/render.xmv (212,992 bytes)
/ToastArt/Xbox/Movies/supersonicintro2_25fps.xmv (3,264,512 bytes)
These are the publisher, developer, RenderWare and Dolby Digital logo movies.

Unneeded stuff
/ToastArt/Xbox/Movies/Intro_NTSC.xmv (24,928,256 bytes)
/ToastArt/Xbox/Movies/Intro_PAL.xmv (24,858,624 bytes)
These are the intro movies. Delete one that does not match your TV standard, or delete both for no intro at all.

It's up to you how much of this stuff you delete. Personally I delete all the taunts, even English, as they annoy me, and I delete the unused movies and logo movies, but keep the intro.

The Chronicals of riddick, all the movies in the inte extra content can be erased, these are extras you unlock, but when you try to play the from the extra content menu, the menu just flips, and comes back, it doesn't not freeze and it doesn't not cause any in game problems.


Cire Zero

Space Saved: 633 Megs

Also Wings of War

All the video and sound files that are 033 and 049 are french and german , can be deleted , game does not freeze


The Audio is in /dta/Dubbing
the video is in / Video
spaced saved


76megs speec
472.56 megs video


roughly 550 megs

Enjoy

Does the recently released version of dvd2xbox(0.5.9) have all the new acl files for games like driv3r, Riddick, Spectrum Warrior, Mafia. I've noticed that your site hasn't been updated in a while(all acl file was from 23 mar,04). Thanks. Overfiend.

P.S was there ever any deletions made to DOA 3?

If I understood thngs right, the ACL's will still work with the newest version of dvd2xbox.

If I read correctly, the program will look for (if you are an ntsc user) titleID_ntsc.acl, and thentitleID.acl.

However, I'm in the procees of updating it all, such as the scripts, the ntsc/pal thing, along with a few other oddities.

It may be a while though, as I'm swamped with work.

Is there any other mirrors for the acl files? I can't get to any of them x.x

1st one is aol blocked, 2nd doesnt work, and the last one cannot find page.

Psi Ops
Space Saved: 703mb

Here’s some movie files you can delete in
Data/movies/
These are all the vids in the Special Features Menu
Area_51trailer.sfd
Cold_Video.sfd
MakingOf.sfd
MK_trailer.sfd
SufferingTrailer.sfd

And these files are the concept art files located in the Extra Content Menu
PSI_extra_**.sfd files(there are 8 of them)

If you delete the other movie files the game will crash and give you an error. You should be able to replace them with smaller files though if you want. There’s also a file called comingattraction.sfd that looks like it could be deleted, but I kept it since I didn’t know where or what part of the game (if any) it belongs.