I read in here that someone said you could split Jade Empire into 2 DVD5s - one disc for the female characters and one for the male. At the end of this post the person stated that after splitting up the movies the ISO was 4.67GB which is still too big to fit on a DVD5. Has anyone successfully split this game onto 2 DVD5s? How did you do it?
Quote:Ok, I bought Jade Empire, and figured out how to get this onto one 4.7 GB dvd.
It's a pretty simple solution actually.
1) Remove all the demos from the disc.
2) Under the movies folder, you'll find that the movies "attract.bik" and "creditmovie.bik" are the largest ones, over 100 MB each, and that "BWlogo.bik" is the smallest, at only 4 MB.
3) Delete attract.bik and copy BWlogo.bik to attract.bik
4) Delete creditmovie.bik and copy BWlogo.bik to creditmovie.bik
5) Under English->movies, delete attract.bik and copy BWlogo.bik to attract.bik
I believe this should make is so you can make a 4,519,232 KB iso image of the game and ISO it onto one disc.
If it still isnt small enough, let me know and I"ll re-do the original disc and see what else I removed or modified.
This works incredibly well on my XBOX v1.6b, and the only side effects are that you cannot play the demos (obviously) and the attraction movie and credit movies are replaced with the BioWare intro logo movie. The attraction movie is the movie that plays if you leave the game at the "Press Start" screen for too long and do nothing.
So you're saying that I must delete and rename these movie files IN CONJUCTION WITH splitting up the character movies right?? I will try it and see what happens. I'm still not sure if the size will be reduced enough to fit. Hopfully...
Man I don't know which copy of Jade Empire you have but I followe dyour procedure (I have the extracted ISO on my pc right now) and that attract.bik file is only about 32.4MB and the creditmovie.bik file is about 85MB. So after doing all the stuff that you mentioned I was only able to bring the ISO size down to 5.61GB. Originally it was 6.13GB
I'm not making this up I have the ISO right here so either you have a different version of this game or something is not right here! I'm positive I followed the procedure exactly how you wrote it. Mine is an NTSC copy of the original disc.
I never said I had the game,I only quoted what I read on xbox-scene.com.
Also,are there video files in other languages? OR video files in other regions. If your country doesn't support PAL....take the PAL videos out.....etc. BAsicly the things that can be removed are
-videos in other regions or languages
-demos
-updatedash.xbe
-update.xbe
-there are others,but those should be the first things to look for.
You could also go somewhere where someone might have posted 'shrunk' versions of the video files that ARE in the game. OR you could read about ways to do so and do them yourself. There are alot of options.....I imagine you could seperate the game into two disks by eliminating the female videos from the disk to make the male disk. and take out the male videos to make the female disk. Could work,I can't see why it wouldn't. Just don't put in the female disk and start the male game,it might freeze.
I've been doing the research on this game ever since it came out. The only ways to copy this that I have seen are either use a DVD+R D/L disc which doesn't seem to work in my Thomson drive (I have yet to hear of someone who has got a D/L disc to work on the Thomson drive so I'm still waiting to hear that), or you can downsample the movies. Supposedly there is a kit to do this but I don't want to do that.
The guy who posted those instructions that you quoted obviously failed math in school or he didn't have the full ISO because after I removed the demos, the Italian and Spanish folders, and then renamed the files like he said, it still works out to be 5.61 GB or whatever. How he fit that onto a DVD5 I have no clue. Maybe they make different blank DVDs in Fairy Land I don't know.
The best theory so far is making 2 discs (one for certain characters and the other disc for the remaining characters). I haven't tried it because I still can't make the game fit onto 1 DVD5 even after splitting the movies. We'll see.
yeah,it's frustrating.....we had the same thing with metal gear solid 2. Then we got the game splitter and everything was great. If I see anymore news I'll post.
Quote:I got Jade Empire down to under 4 gigs in under 15 minutes!!! The reason why the movie folder is sooooo large is because the same movies are done for each of the characters!!! What I did choose one character that I wanted, then deleted the others movies. I even kept the Demo on the Disc!!! Ill post more soon!!!
