Last night i tried to backup my 24game. I tried to do what all people said here but sth went wrong. So i decided to do sth else. I did the job with isobuster and cdvdgen without split files gamedata1 and gamedata2. Was so simple. The whole file gamedata just got little (from 5.3 turned to 3.9 without fix the pss files) and i wrote it on a Taiyo dvd. just like a miracle the game played flawlessly without freeze and all others. I also noticed something else, i burned BLACKgame that is a single layer dvd, with isobuster again. The target file was ONLY 2.1 gb from 4.3 that was the source file, i wrote it in a Taiyo dvd and the game played perfect. The PS2 when reads the Taiyo dvd which it is only 2.3 gb, i almost cannot hear it. But when it reads the normal copies from Alcohol that the game is exactly the same size with the source, i can hear that reads all the time.
Sorry for my English. Im trying to be better from time to time.
Thats entirely normal game companies purposely put in dummy files to deliberately make it harder to back games up and make them play however the game companies don't rely on us using our heads or rather only think that the minor few will use our heads when in gfact its the majority so don't worry this is perfectly normal also be on the look out for files such as DMY, DUMMY as these are also dummy files and can be removed manually however I'd advise that you look into some of the walkthroughs on this site before attempting anything like that.
Aslong as you're using decent media it really shouldn't matter.
However don't misinterpret the fact that a 4.7GB blank DVD can only actually hold 4.38GB this is because in general 1000mb is referred to 1GB which isn't true, this number is only a rounded up figure.
To be honest I didn't realise that they did it to make games run smoother, I thought DVD9 was just a ploy to deter people, granted there are games that need all that space but theres also alot of games that rarely use up enough space on a DVD5, let alone DVD9.
