Banki
02-23-2009, 02:18 AM
How to Rip a game*
It's not 100% sure that you will make a very good looking "Rip". The problem is about time and PC. It takes hours or maybe days to make a gooooood Rip and you need a good *blender* (PC). Any way you can have look and I'm sure you'll do something nice. Try it but do not blame me if something is not as you like. Have Phun. :)
Ok lets start. A rip is a game that is compressed with cutting movies, music, intro's, and is good to know:
- to delete intro's, music, movies, just go to the main game folder and delete them;
- make sure to have a crack before starting the work and make sure that the crack works.
Here's a good site to use to find Cracks:
www.gamecopyworld.com
1. You Will Need UHARC GUI. Here's the link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/127203891/WinUHA_2.0_RC1__2005.02.27_.rar
2. Install UHARC and then start UHARC
4. Add the Game Folder or Game Files + Crack.
5. Click Create Archive and save it into desktop or a folder and name it what you like.
6. When it's done creating go to the place you saved it at and go to the next step.
3. Click on Create Archive.
7. Were not done yet. Now we gotto go to script...
8. Open notepad and write this script. Make sure the uha you called it is on del name.uha
@echo off
cls
UHARC.exe x -o+ -vm+ -y+ files.uha
cls
del name.uha
echo DONE...
pause
9. Now lets make a outro (an outro will look like this:)
echo ************************************************
echo * :::===== :::==== :::==== :::===== ::: === *
echo * ::: ::: === ::: === ::: ::: === *
echo * === ======= ======== === ====== *
echo * === === === === === === === === *
echo * ======= === === === === ======= === === *
echo ************************************************
echo ************************************************
echo * Ripped By:Your name *
echo ************************************************
echo.
echo.
pause
Edit it and add anything you like like Ripped By and stuff and add _______.com
It will look horrible in windows but when you save it as a .bat file and open it its nice
10. You get now something like:
@echo off
cls
UHARC.exe x -o+ -vm+ -y+ files.uha
cls
del files.uha
echo DONE...
pause
echo ************************************************
echo * :::===== :::==== :::==== :::===== ::: === *
echo * ::: ::: === ::: === ::: ::: === *
echo * === ======= ======== === ====== *
echo * === === === === === === === === *
echo * ======= === === === === ======= === === *
echo ************************************************
echo ************************************************
echo * Ripped By:Your name *
echo ************************************************
echo.
echo.
pause
Now save it as install.bat
Make sure when packing it that the install.bat and name.uha are in same folder and your done and now you
can upload it and share it
And now how to make an archive bigger than 2 Gigs
First you make 2 achives
@echo off
cls
UHARC.exe x -o+ -vm+ -y+ files.uha
cls
del files.uha
cls
UHARC.exe x -o+ -vm+ -y+ files2.uha
cls
del files.uha
echo DONE...
pause
echo ************************************************
echo * :::===== :::==== :::==== :::===== ::: === *
echo * ::: ::: === ::: === ::: ::: === *
echo * === ======= ======== === ====== *
echo * === === === === === === === === *
echo * ======= === === === === ======= === === *
echo ************************************************
echo ************************************************
echo * Ripped By:Your name *
echo ************************************************
echo.
echo.
I thing something like that (but not very sure)
For the registry, you could use some kind of registry monitor. You can try Regmon (works great) download it from his link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/127203652/Regmon.rar
Just collect every write action made to the registry when you install the game from the source discs.
Then write a .reg file and execute it like this, in a batch file (.bat):
regedit yourregfile.reg >nul
del yourregfile.reg
A reg file is needed, because sometimes a game won't start without the proper values written to the registry.
And for that 'MP3 Packer'.. Sometimes a game has a lot of wave files installed. But wave files are big and
are easely compressed to .ogg fiels or something. So what that realy does it compress/decompress audio files.
So any program that handles parameters in dos could be used for that.
Is there a point in creating highly compressed uharc even if I don't rip out music/vids?
It depends - if you're ripping for yourself, maybe not.
Uharc take AGES to work (it is a very high compression engine and that takes a lot of time), and if it's just
for yourself or a mate, just copy the dvd to dvd.
If it's for here or other forums, then again, maybe - but the problem is different now..
If the media (vid/sounds) compresses well and a 1.8 Gigs game with audio/movies becomes 800Mb,
then that's worth downloading.
If it stays around 1.6 Gigs, many people won't bother downloading that much just to
maybe find a crc error or a corrupt file or just a crap game.
Also note that some games are hard coded to EXPECT to see their music/video files and will crash if they're
ripped out (You need to do some extra coding-type work to kill these. Sometimes just having the video file
name with a smaller video (or a blank 1 second video) will work).
And if you really want to get into ripping, there's (somewhere, I dunno how to use them) programs that rip
audio streams, recompress them to ogg or mp3, then re-inject them into the original huge audio file.
Uharc will take 30 mins to compress 400Mb into about 45Mb, on a X2 4800+ PC.
Good Luck
*Please note this is a very general guide and i cannot provide any support for ripping games. All credit goes to original author.
It's not 100% sure that you will make a very good looking "Rip". The problem is about time and PC. It takes hours or maybe days to make a gooooood Rip and you need a good *blender* (PC). Any way you can have look and I'm sure you'll do something nice. Try it but do not blame me if something is not as you like. Have Phun. :)
Ok lets start. A rip is a game that is compressed with cutting movies, music, intro's, and is good to know:
- to delete intro's, music, movies, just go to the main game folder and delete them;
- make sure to have a crack before starting the work and make sure that the crack works.
Here's a good site to use to find Cracks:
www.gamecopyworld.com
1. You Will Need UHARC GUI. Here's the link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/127203891/WinUHA_2.0_RC1__2005.02.27_.rar
2. Install UHARC and then start UHARC
4. Add the Game Folder or Game Files + Crack.
5. Click Create Archive and save it into desktop or a folder and name it what you like.
6. When it's done creating go to the place you saved it at and go to the next step.
3. Click on Create Archive.
7. Were not done yet. Now we gotto go to script...
8. Open notepad and write this script. Make sure the uha you called it is on del name.uha
@echo off
cls
UHARC.exe x -o+ -vm+ -y+ files.uha
cls
del name.uha
echo DONE...
pause
9. Now lets make a outro (an outro will look like this:)
echo ************************************************
echo * :::===== :::==== :::==== :::===== ::: === *
echo * ::: ::: === ::: === ::: ::: === *
echo * === ======= ======== === ====== *
echo * === === === === === === === === *
echo * ======= === === === === ======= === === *
echo ************************************************
echo ************************************************
echo * Ripped By:Your name *
echo ************************************************
echo.
echo.
pause
Edit it and add anything you like like Ripped By and stuff and add _______.com
It will look horrible in windows but when you save it as a .bat file and open it its nice
10. You get now something like:
@echo off
cls
UHARC.exe x -o+ -vm+ -y+ files.uha
cls
del files.uha
echo DONE...
pause
echo ************************************************
echo * :::===== :::==== :::==== :::===== ::: === *
echo * ::: ::: === ::: === ::: ::: === *
echo * === ======= ======== === ====== *
echo * === === === === === === === === *
echo * ======= === === === === ======= === === *
echo ************************************************
echo ************************************************
echo * Ripped By:Your name *
echo ************************************************
echo.
echo.
pause
Now save it as install.bat
Make sure when packing it that the install.bat and name.uha are in same folder and your done and now you
can upload it and share it
And now how to make an archive bigger than 2 Gigs
First you make 2 achives
@echo off
cls
UHARC.exe x -o+ -vm+ -y+ files.uha
cls
del files.uha
cls
UHARC.exe x -o+ -vm+ -y+ files2.uha
cls
del files.uha
echo DONE...
pause
echo ************************************************
echo * :::===== :::==== :::==== :::===== ::: === *
echo * ::: ::: === ::: === ::: ::: === *
echo * === ======= ======== === ====== *
echo * === === === === === === === === *
echo * ======= === === === === ======= === === *
echo ************************************************
echo ************************************************
echo * Ripped By:Your name *
echo ************************************************
echo.
echo.
I thing something like that (but not very sure)
For the registry, you could use some kind of registry monitor. You can try Regmon (works great) download it from his link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/127203652/Regmon.rar
Just collect every write action made to the registry when you install the game from the source discs.
Then write a .reg file and execute it like this, in a batch file (.bat):
regedit yourregfile.reg >nul
del yourregfile.reg
A reg file is needed, because sometimes a game won't start without the proper values written to the registry.
And for that 'MP3 Packer'.. Sometimes a game has a lot of wave files installed. But wave files are big and
are easely compressed to .ogg fiels or something. So what that realy does it compress/decompress audio files.
So any program that handles parameters in dos could be used for that.
Is there a point in creating highly compressed uharc even if I don't rip out music/vids?
It depends - if you're ripping for yourself, maybe not.
Uharc take AGES to work (it is a very high compression engine and that takes a lot of time), and if it's just
for yourself or a mate, just copy the dvd to dvd.
If it's for here or other forums, then again, maybe - but the problem is different now..
If the media (vid/sounds) compresses well and a 1.8 Gigs game with audio/movies becomes 800Mb,
then that's worth downloading.
If it stays around 1.6 Gigs, many people won't bother downloading that much just to
maybe find a crc error or a corrupt file or just a crap game.
Also note that some games are hard coded to EXPECT to see their music/video files and will crash if they're
ripped out (You need to do some extra coding-type work to kill these. Sometimes just having the video file
name with a smaller video (or a blank 1 second video) will work).
And if you really want to get into ripping, there's (somewhere, I dunno how to use them) programs that rip
audio streams, recompress them to ogg or mp3, then re-inject them into the original huge audio file.
Uharc will take 30 mins to compress 400Mb into about 45Mb, on a X2 4800+ PC.
Good Luck
*Please note this is a very general guide and i cannot provide any support for ripping games. All credit goes to original author.