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Blasphemy
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_ 		25. October 2005 @ 19:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey all ..

Umm ... okay soo ill give yous the run-down

im using DVDdecrypter to read/write iso images .. but some games seem to bee too big like for example ...

metal gear solid 2 - sequence (or something ?) was 6.4 gigs or something close to that !!

iv read most of the topics on these forums ... and i remember sonething about DUD files ??

heres another question -

how do i tell if a game is dual layer ?

im mainly backing up games off the original ... if that helps !
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pimpinIT
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_ 		25. October 2005 @ 20:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
There isnt very many dual layer games out there. God of War, GT4, Metal Gear Solid Sneak Eater(I think) and possibly a few others. The way you can tell is if the game is like 6-8 gigs(actually anything over 4.7 GB but sometimes they can easily be rebuild and made smaller). Most of the time people provide ways to "squeeze" the game onto a DVD5, through special rebuilding methods.
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LiquidusX
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_ 		25. October 2005 @ 20:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
MGS3 is not DVD9 it's dvd5

all the DVD9 games are listed on swapmagicfix.com
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Blasphemy
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_ 		25. October 2005 @ 21:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
kool thanks ill cek out that site

also if i do re-build the games / does stuff get cut out ?

coz i dont really want to do that
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Itzamna36
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_ 		25. October 2005 @ 21:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
When you rebuild games, stuff doesn't get cut out, as far as the game itself goes. I'm pretty sure it just gets rid of the dummy files that are placed there for copyright protection and such. Your not going to lose any part of the playable game.
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pimpinIT
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_ 		25. October 2005 @ 22:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thats not really true...games like GT4 and God of War either have movies completely cut or downsampled(lessened quality) the stuff that gets cut out is what most people wouldnt really care about. Now when you rebuild a single layer game nothing gets cut out other than dud space in the file.
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