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THE ONLY GOD OF WAR BURN METHOD THAT WORKS FOR REAL
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ravedaddy
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10. December 2005 @ 23:42 |
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GOD OF WAR BACKUP TUTORIAL: by rave 2005
BEFORE I GET STARTED I WOULD LIKE TO THANK SONIX FOR ALL HIS HARD WORK,AS HE HAS DONE MOST OF ALL THE WORK,HOWEVER FOLLOWING HIS GUIDE I WAS UNABLE TO MAKE A SUCCESSFULL (WORKING) COPY OF GOD OF WAR SO I MADE A FEW CHANGES IN MY METHOD,I WILL ENCLOSE A LINK TO SONIX GUIDE
FOR YOU TO REFRENCE,AS IT IS THE BASIS FOR MY METHOD.....
AGAIN ALL THE THANX GOES TO SONIX FOR THE (HARD) WORK,, YOU ARE THE KING SONIX KEEP IT UP!!
Tools needed:
? ISO BUSTER 7.0 FULL VERSION
? Apache2
? God Of War Tool v1.00
NOTES:
In order to make a working DVD5 backup of this game you will need a lot of hard drive space (approx
20gig). You will also need to use a PC that has the NTFS file system not FAT32 as the files are larger
than 2gig. Windows 95/98 users will no doubt have problems. This guide is presuming you are using
Windows XP with enough space.
First,use iso buster and create an ISO from the original game disk.Once that is complete,create a new folder on your hard drive called ?God?.or whatever you want just as long as you kno where its at later on.open the ISO in Apache2, right-click the volume label and select ?Extract All? from the pop-up menu:Browse to the ?God? folder you created and click ok. It will take a little while for all files to be
extracted.
Once the file extraction is complete, right-click the volume label again, but this time select ?Switch
Layers? from the menu:
You should now see Layer1 in the Apache2 window, and it contains only 1 file called PART2.PAK.
Right-click the volume label for the last time, and again select ?Extract All? from the menu. Browse to
the same ?God? folder and click OK.
Once you?ve confirmed that you have a 7.93GIG ?God? directory you can continue.
Close Apache2 and open ?GodOfWar.exe?. Click the browse button and browse to your ?God? folder
to select the GODOFWAR.TOC file. Click OK.
Now hit the ?Extract? button and the tool will begin the extraction process which will take a little
while.
Once all the files have been extracted you should see a new directory in the ?God? folder called
?Extracted?. If you check the ?Extracted? folder it should contain 955 files and should be 7.12Gig in size.
You may notice that the 2 original PAK files from the game total 7.93Gig in size yet only 7.12Gig has
been extracted ? this is not an error, the original PAK files have duplicate files in each, probably to
prevent over excessive layer switching.
Next, sort the folder by TYPE: this is important
All the *.PSW files will be listed together so it makes it easier to select them all ? then delete them.The *.PSW files are the same video files as the *.PSS files so you are not loosing anything here.
Once you?ve deleted all the necessary files we can move onto the rebuilding stage.
Once again, open up the tool GodOfWar.exe, browse to the GOD folder and select the
?GODOFWAR.TOC? ? but this time click the ?Rebuild? button.
Sit back and relax while the tool rebuilds the files.
Once it?s finished rebuilding you will be presented with the EasyRelink screen:
All the files on the right side list are the ones the tool has just added to our new file. The list on the
left represents all the files we deleted ? as you have probably noticed, it lists files we didn?t actually
delete! It?s ok ? these are the duplicate files I talked about earlier. Click the ?Auto Relink Dupes?
button and that will take care of relinking the duplicate files for us.
Now all that should remain are the *.PSW files and the bonus *.PSS files that were deleted.
The rest of the relinking process has to be done manually so from the left side list select the first file
(?A01MP01.PSW?) and search for the same file but with a PSS extension on the right sided list, once
you?ve found it (?A01MP01.PSS?) select it and then press the ?Relink? button. Do the same for all the
remaining PSW files. For the bonus PSS files you can choose any pss file on the right side list to
relink them all too.
As you relink each file the list on the left should get smaller?continue until all files have been relinked.when all the relinking is done you will see a completed box hit ok.
Click the OK button and close the GodOfWar.exe tool.
Time to tidy up before making the new ISO.
Delete the ?Extracted? folder and delete the following files:
?PART1.PAK
?PART2.PAK
?GODOFWAR.TOC
Rename GODOFWAR.TOC_NEW to GODOFWAR.TOC
Rename PART1.PAK_NEW to PART1.PAK
Check your ?God? folder. It should now contain 3.47Gig of data. If it doesn?t either something went
wrong or you may have missed a stage. If it does then it?s time to create the ISO.
Included with this tutorial should be 2 files called ?GodOfWar.iml? and ?GodOfWar.ims?. Place these
two files into your ?God? directory.
Open Apache2 and select File -> Import IML File from the menu.
Browse to your ?God? directory and select the ?GodOfWar.iml? file. Apache will open the file and you
will see it?s layout. Now, go to File -> Build ISO from the menu, browse to where you would like
Apache2 to save your new ISO, give it a name, press ok and sit back and wait
Once Apache2 has completed creating the ISO you will see this message:iso created successfully.Check your newly created iso and it should be 3.47Gig in size.
Use your favourite burning program to burn the iso to dvd5.
You now have a working DVD5 backup of this great game!
LINKS TO ALL THE TOOLS EXCEPT FOR ISO BUSTER
LINK TO APACHE 2 AND GOD OF WAR TOOL.
http://www.backuptools.co.uk
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shamuu
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15. December 2005 @ 17:03 |
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I followed your information exactly, but for some reason isobuster makes a *.tao file, and when i use the godofwar.exe file to rebuild the old *.toc, when you have to link the files...It doesn't show the *.psw files
i need to like with the *.pss files. Is there something i did wrong?
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8. January 2006 @ 13:22 |
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i havent been able to create an iso from the dvd, will the tao work?
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hellnight
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9. January 2006 @ 20:06 |
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I ran into a similar issue as pipiolo, After rebuilding the EasyRelink screen doesn't pop up and when I try to rebuild again it does pop up after a bit but both the pss and psw files are to the left and can't be relinked.
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mvil
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10. January 2006 @ 14:47 |
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Does this finished backup of god of war include the movies in the game because i looked on the tutorial of backup god of war in buckuptools.com and they have said "I have already created two previous tutorials ?the first with bonus movies removed, the second with all movies
downsampled. This version also downsamples all the movies"
Now because i havent finished the game, are the movies that they are talking about the ones that are played during the actual game or are they something else?
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SDF_GR
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11. January 2006 @ 15:05 |
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Just go to backuptools.co.uk and read the tutorials "carefully"!!!
I have made 3 different backup's with the 3 tutorials with 100% sucess.
Just download the GT4 backup kit to get Apache3 or go to www.thefileforum.com and download it.
IsoBuster sucks for PS2 games.
Rip the game from an IDE DVD(NO External ieee1394 or USB)with Apache3 create a file list with Apache3 extract "both layers" with Apache3 and just FOLLOW the tutorial Carefully!!!
Don't use iml2iso(2gb Fat limitation)you can do it from command line or you can download IML2DVD from backuptools.co.uk
Don't forget to place to the directory "system32" activeskin.ocx and winaspi32.dll and register them.
To rebuild yout iso always use CDDVD Generator.
To burn your iso use DVD Decrypter with SPTI interface at 4x speed Always!!
and i repeat if you follow step by step the version 3 tutorial by Sonix you will have all the videos and the game working 100%!!!
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Kronic06
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11. January 2006 @ 17:40 |
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My godofwar.exe like the thing to extract doesnt work i have redownloaded it many times its has an error saying that i was in the middle of something then closes i click Browse for the TOC file in D/ps2games/godofwar and i click extract or Rebuild it comes up with and error plz help me i know how do do it all and i wana play it but this godofwar.exe program just wont work
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mega_cool
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11. January 2006 @ 20:52 |
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another easy method with no time consumption is to get a DVD+/-R for less than 8 bucks and copy the game straight into that, now dont pounce people i know that it freezes half way because of switching layers, but if you use the toxic patcher, it works like a charm. i done it adn it worked i finished the game.
lets get copyin!!!!!
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Kronic06
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11. January 2006 @ 22:48 |
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can ne1 help me look at my reply above ^^^^
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SDF_GR
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12. January 2006 @ 13:56 |
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Go to Backuptools.co.uk and download Munge-O-Matic.That should work.
It worked for me.
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Kronic06
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12. January 2006 @ 14:53 |
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i have done that and wen i got to extract the godofwar.TOC file it doesnt work but the rebuild one does this is on munge o matic
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SDF_GR
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13. January 2006 @ 14:08 |
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i don't know dude that's odd.go to www.thefileforum.com and dowload it from there maybe it works or register to backuptools.co.uk forum and ask for Sonix help he should know.
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mvil
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15. January 2006 @ 16:30 |
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I dont think that this is the only God of war burn method. I spent about 2 days searching for an easier way to backup this great game. The method of burning that is mentoned in this thread is maybe the only working method thats gets the game to work on a normal dvd but i found a working dual layer patch that is supposed to work with any dual layer game. i used it on god of war and burnt the patched iso onto dvd-duallayer using Nero. I now have a full working backup of god of war. the patch can be found here and i hope that this will help alot of ppl out.
http://forums.psxforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=27443
have fun!
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qasim1991
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30. January 2006 @ 09:02 |
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ok i may be wrong because i dont have any experience with God of War, but if it is a DVD-9 then just read the image and burn it onto a dual layer disc, preferably with Alcohol 120%, which has had a 100% success rate for me ( i have backed up about 40 of my games)
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