Can someone please help? I was reading the instructions for Sonic heroes, and it says that we need a dummy file from the swapmagicfix site, but I cant find the place to download it. I'm sure that I'm probably just not looking in the right place. Can someone point me in the right direction or send me the files I need? Thanks for any help rendered.
Make a new text document on your desktop. Press the 'spacebar' once inside the document.\ Then save it as DUMMY.BIN. Congratulations you have made a 1kb dummy file. Now use Apache 2 or Isobuster to extract the files from your original .ISO and replace the Old DUMMY file, With the new one you just created. The only thing to be wary of is to keep the files IN THE SAME ORDER when re-building your .iso file. If you dont get them in the same order they wont work. Normally I just take a screenshot of the files first, So I know the EXACT order when I re-build my .iso See picture below (AS AN EXAMPLE) and good luck
No problem its pretty easy to do once you get the hang of re-building. Heres a link to a good re-building guide if you need. Software required: DVD Decrypter Iso Buster cddvdgen Nero Apache 2 1) Use DVD Decrypter to extract the iso from your hard-drive. 2) Create a new folder, Extract all the data in the iso into this folder using isobuster. Dummy Files: Some games have dummy files in them. They are used to increase the size of the image and to copy-protect the game. Burning games with the dummy files left unchanged will result in a game that does not boot (using swap magic anyway). To remedy this annoyance follow these fun steps. a) Create a new text file. Open it and press the space bar, then close it. This creates a byte of data in the text file. b) Rename the text file you made to the exact same name as the dummy file in your folder. The dummy file will be called something like DUMMY.DAT, DUMMY.000, DUMMY.001 etc, GARBAGE.DAT. c) Overwrite all those dummy files with the blank ones you've created. (Games generally only have 1 dummy file, but some have multiple dummy files 3) Open up cddvdgen, you want to create a new DVD project, the middle one. Drag over the new file you have created using Iso buster, making sure you place them back into the same order as they where in iso buster. 4) When you finish this go to the Volume tab and input the follow data. Search though the folder you created with Iso buster and locate the File, SLUS or SLES, note down the file name and number, in the first box beside name, type the name you found, example (SLES) followed by the number, without the period. Example (54322). Fill in PLAYSTATION for producer, and the licence area is your area. 5) Click the record button at the top right and save it to your C drive again. Name the file as f4.IML. You'll get 2 errors but just hit ok and the recording window will load. If you don't then you might be missing the wnaspi32.dll. Nero should have this if you need it. 6) Go to file and export image to C drive (not a folder) and name it f4.LST 7) Open up a dos prompt and go to your desktop, for most of you the command will be "cd desktop" remove the quotes. From here type "copy /b f4.000 + f4.001 + f4.002 + f4.003 f4.iso" and this combines your files. This also assumes you have a file named f4.003, if your files only go up to f4.002 don't add "+ f4.003", just put a space and f4.iso at the end. From here hit enter. 7.b) Alternativly you can save some time by using apache instead, Open apache 2. Load f4.iml Create .iso 8) Open up Nero burning rom and create a new UDF/ISO DVD (It's the last one in the list). Burn it at 4x speed. 9) Enjoy your new backed up game… Created by black_ice http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/210515 Welcome to the forums.
