Here's a little tool I coded to backup your nfl dvd9 disk to a dvd5



Instructions
You first need to have the contents of the DVD9 game in a folder on your pc.
Extract the exe and dat file from the rar archive.
Run the tool. Click the browse button [...] and browse to the directory of the game that contains the '0' file (ESPN_NFL_2K5\vc_53450030)...
Click the GO! button and sit back because it may take a while (especially on slower pc's )
Once you see the message 'Process Complete' you can close the tool.
Your game directory should now be approx 4.25GB in size ready for you to burn to a dvd5 disk

*All Movies are removed using this tool - also some music


Get the tool HERE

MOD EDIT: Fixed link to tool.

Found a little bug in tool that I've just fixed, but for anyone who has already downloaded the pre-fixed version check your ESPN_NFL_2K5\vc_53450030\
and if you see a file called 0_NEW make sure you rename it to 0 before you create a new iso.
The link in my first post contains the latest (bug fixed) build of the tool.

this is more like it, some tools to make certain backups work,
do you wanna make a tool to help my v1.1 xbox and sammy drive play spiderman2 and manhunt
they work from hdd but i want working discs, they work in my mates phillips

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

awesome job Sonix.

thanks

Very nice work Sonix... been sitting on these files for quite some time. Nice to get a working copy.

And, a cute little interface. Solid.

For some reason, the game is not working for me. After using your tool I burned the game and from the beginning there are many glitches. There is no music at all; when picking teams the helmets for each team is just a shadow; it freezes when I first try to play a celeb vip; there is no Chris Berman or voice when a game loads up, just a blank screen that says press A to skip then goes to the screen where it says (insert team) vs (insert team) but without the voice, then it just freezes on a black screen after that and I cannot play a game.

Think I've found a bug which may cause your problem BigCnasty31 (sorry about that)

Tool is offline for a little while until I can update/test..won't be too long tho

thanks for making this tool but after i shrunk it and copyed it to my hdd i got a dirty disk error

and then i looked @ the folder and all the files arnt there...?

Ok, tool is back online all bugs are fixed (the link in my first post will get you the latest version 1.2)

After the process has finished check the folder called "vc_53450030" and double check all files are the following names/sizes:


This should be final version now as I've tested thoroughly on both dvd and hard drive and no probs found

works great for me 2 thankyou sonix

hey sonix great tool, i just have one question what exactly did you get rid of in terms of movies and music? is it just the live action footage and such? how much of that crap was on there to take so much memory anyway

some of the videos are quite big actually, i think the other espn games video takes up the most out of em.

Nice tool

PS what did the files end up being? binary dat's?

@zhugeliang
All the movies were taken out exept for the espn logo one (all the other movies were relinked to this one) also the background music tracks were removed.

@-PK-
The extracted files were just files, just no filenames or extensions....the movies could be played (with glitchy sound) in power dvd if you added the .mpg extension to the extracted movie files.

When i use the Nfl 2k5 backup tool i get a runtime error that causes the program to close. Can anyone help?

when i go to play a game the video b4 the game locks up and the audiokeeps looping:(

Hey sry bout the post before I figured out the problem. However, another problem arised, I have all the files (1,2,3,...ect) except F . At the moment i cant get ahold of F. Is there anyway to use this tool without that file? thanks

sonix, the program works great.. theres only one or two things that i need to say about the backup. after the sega logo leaves the screen in the start up, its followed by the espn video game sounds screen, i noticed, that in the back up it replays that logo like 4 times.. and than it shows the screen that saids press start, i dont know if i did somethign wrong or thats the way its suppose to be, or maybe theres a small bug, and also im playing a franchise with the dolphins, and when im playing at home instead of both touchdowns having the dolphins logo, it has the dolphins in one end, and cardinals in the other.. but other than that the game plays great.. Good Job, im glad someone finally cracked this sucker up!

last night i was playing this game. and it locked on me in the beggining of the game, wher you see the fans trying to find their seats, and all i heard was the commentators voice over and over... but the image was frozen.. A button nor Start button will do anything to get past it.
i used Ritek ridata dvd-r
burned with plextor 708A burner
at 4 x.. . done this many times.. never happened before

i extracted all of the files okay with your program. i made an iso with craxion, and burned the image in nero...like i have with all of my backups. when i put it in the xbox, it doesn't recognize the disc. am i just suppose to burn the files in nero without making an iso first? or would you suggest that i do something different? thanks

Used the tool, works great. Thx.
I tried playing a quick mode game after I burned it onto a DVD-rw and I got a DDE a coupe of minutes into the 1st quarter. I tried three time san dthe same thing happend. I am going to try another dvd tonight but I was wondering if there was anything that I need to know wbaout with the tool and the DDE. Has anyone else gotten this error?

Thx

i got the DDE and i noticed my files were the incorrect sizes make sure there the same as the ones sonix posted

well i got the same file sizes as what sonix posted but its still nuked. both from dvd or hard drive.

game locks up on big blue sega screen can't get past that

hi i just burned it and it just kept going to my dashboard and it wouldn't work is there another way i can burn it, also i burned it as a iso, is that correct

I just put the game in my dvd drive (Samsung), started up dvd2xbox 0.5.9, loaded the game in the drive, selected directory, and hit start. I did this 3 times and tested each time and I have yet to have the game not work. Not sure what the problem is?

thanks Sonix,

would you be willing to share the source code to your 2K5 tool ?
would really appreciate it. I'm intrested for learning purposes only.

I clicked on the tool link and get a page full of gibberish, Someone told me once that I had a java setting wrong but I have yet to figure it out. It only occurs in a link with a download and very very seldomly, Anyone ever had this problem before?

Games seems to play pretty good for me but it does hang and quit responding in First Person mode for me after about a minute of playing. Thanks for the tool.

Mark

Ive tried to find that progie.... but it takes me to ur site and there is no link for this tool. can u repost please? thanks.

^^^ Me too

If you go to his site and look on the left hand side you will see under "Old Tools", click here to download NFL2K5 Backup Tool. Click it and download it!

-Matt

I just used the Tool and after it was done my game was still 4.6 GB. Do I delete the " Ripped " folder after it is done? I think removing the folder would make my game small enough to burn.

4.6GB is small enough to burn on to DVD. A single layer DVD can hold up to 4.7GB.

Downloaded the program and began to run the tool which detects an error after processing about 221 files. States windows has encountered an error and need to close down the tool. Tried downloading again and the same results, anyone have any ideas?

Derf9_9

I ran into the same problem it goes so far and it encounterd an error and needs to close.

Great work! Thanks for coding this!

Sorry mate, wrong quote. I was quoting the guy who had problems with Manhunt and Spiderman 2.

Cheers

I can't get it to work for me. It process the files 0-F and then leaves them in the folder ripped and quits the program.

I can't figure out whats going on. Oh and I'm using version 1.2

hello i'm french sorry for my english.
how do you make the torrent after using the tools?,thanks

do i put update dashupdate and default xbe inthe iso?please help.