God of War II is my 1st DVD9 game I have tried to backup. I use DVD Decrypter like I always do to make my ps2 DVD5 backups. I made the backup the same way I would a normal ps2 DVD5 game but burnt it to a Verbatim DVD+R DL DVD.
I Have a slim ps2 with swap magic 3.6 it works grate on all my DVD5 backups but say "not a valid ps2 disc" when i try to boot a DVD+R DL game. I am using the "DVD" swap magic disc to boot my DVD games.
Thank you for your time and help. :)
p.s. DVD Decrypter Tries to burn the .MDS file every time I try to burn the ISO file. You guys think Nero would work?
You need to rebuild God of War II to work with Swapmagic, DVD±R DL do not work with Swapmagic. I use swapmagic and I rebuild GoW2 3.98GB and the game works great. Just follow one of the guides at this site.
here's gnie's version
Don't close the xpert2 tool until you get to #14 on the list note: you hdd drive must be in ntfs system(over 4gb bigfile), needed about 30 - 40 gb hdd working space
1. run xpert2
2. selelct gow2 plugin
3. open the B select the bigfile= new-part1.pak
4. open the T select the tablefile = godofwar.toc
5. click 1 extract lba
6. click 2 extract file (take a long time to extract all the file ,~7.93gb
7. goto @new-part1.pak folder ,do what ever you want to dummy .pss .psw or ds .pss .psw
and after that check all the files total size must be less then 4gb
8. click 3 rebuild file after done you will get the new-new.part1.pak and godofwar-relink-lsn.txt
9. goto to tool -> relinker then open the godofwar-relink-lsn.txt and load, then relink those file you dummy ,all done click save
10. then exit the relinker
11. back to main xpert2 tool, click 4 rebuild lba
12. now you got new-new-part1.pak and new-godofwar.toc
13. delete all the old file new-part1.pak, godofwar.toc and @new-part1.pak folder , all the .txt file
14 rename new-new-part1.pak as part1.pak and new-godofwar.toc as godofwar.toc
15. use cdvdgen open the dvd-rom master project and drag and drop all those file and do what ever you know .
16. export gow2.iml and gow2.ims file
17. use my cdvd_iml2iso gui ver 5.1
18. build the gow2.iso
19. burn your game
