Hi everyone, this is my first post on the forums in the first few days since I started browsing through the mountains of threads on DVD backup and similar things. I've got a problem that I wasn't able to find a solution for, and if any help could be given, or even a point in the right direction, that would be great. I apologize if I missed a thread that detailed how to remedy the situation.
A few days ago I went to sit down and play my copy of MGS:3 and my PS2 would recognize it. I went through the ritual MOD chip boot procedure that I've been accustomed to for the last five or six years, but still nothing. My best possible guess is my DVD copy of MSG must have been sun damaged or hurt on the move across the country I made earlier this autumn.
So, the first thing I did was jump on Bitorrent and quickly search for a new copy of the MGS.iso to burn.
I managed to find it relatively quickly, but this is where I'm stuck. The ISO comes in roughly a 30 part WinRAR archive, with subsequent files that windows doesn't recognize that have summaris of "R30 File" through "R63 File". I wasn't quite sure what to do with these files, all which are the same size of the archived ISO files.
I extracted all the ISO archives and got an image file of just under 4GB, which seemed right to me. So I went to burn the image file, and Nero yelled at me, telling me the image was over 2GB and therefor I had to burn it as a UDF format. I burned the image, and surprise surprise, it didn't work.
So my question really is what am I doing wrong? Should the image files be matained seperately while they're burned, having 1-30 image files as opposed to one large one? These other files, the non-archived R30-R63 Files, what relevance have they? And the whole UDF format thing, which I really have no clue is about..
I just burned it with DVD Decrypter at 1x speed. Still no luck with getting it to work. My playstation is yelling at me to insert a PS2 format disk. What I think I'm having the problem with is extracting the image file from the archive through WinRAR. Is there a specific way to do it?
Aye, I just tried 4x speed aswell with no avail.. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, as I'm extracting the image file without a problem, and seem to experience no problems while burning. For some reason my PS2 just doesn't want to read the disk, which is odd, as it is having no problem reading any other original or backup copies of other games
Files r30 - r63 are still rar archives. The fact they're not iconed is just a Windows/WinRAR bug, don't worry about it.
Open up WinRAR, highlight the first file (.rar), click 'Extract To' & click OK.
You'll now have a complete iso file extracted from all the archives (.rar - .r63 inclusive)
Now use DVDecrypter, Nero, Alcohol, or whatever burning prog you like to burn the iso to disc using the program's Image Burning function.
Make sure it's good quality media, and you burn at 1/2 the disc's max speed.
Aye, it seems I've gone through all the motions. I did some research myself on the other file types and realized they were archives aswell. I'm using Memorex DVD-R which have never given me trouble in the past, and the firmware on my DVD hardware is all brand-spanking new. I'm roughly at the point where the only thing I can think of as being corrupt or detrimental is the Image itself from torrent. I'm currently downloading an alternate copy now. Hopefully it will work..
