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Posted on 10-16-16 10:54:48 PM Link | Quote
I noticed the cd for this game has a 33 megabyte "DUMMY" file on it. I've seen people ripping data from these games - how do you open them? It reads as a "unix executable" and has a creation date of 2002... for a game released in 2007.
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Posted on 10-17-16 12:16:31 AM Link | Quote
Dummy files are random files used to pad out discs for one reason or another. Pad them out too much and you can easily end up in a weird situation.

You might want to take a look into that dummy file with a hex editor, as I have strong suspicion it's not a Unix executable. MadEdit is what I'd recommend, as it's not only a hex editor, but it can also read Shift JIS encoded files. As this is a Japanese game, I'd presume that dummy file would also contain at least some Japanese strings.

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Posted on 10-17-16 08:45:00 AM Link | Quote
Sounds like it's a PS2 ELF file.

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Posted on 10-23-16 09:08:58 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by divingkataetheweirdo
Dummy files are random files used to pad out discs for one reason or another. Pad them out too much and you can easily end up in a weird situation.

You might want to take a look into that dummy file with a hex editor, as I have strong suspicion it's not a Unix executable. MadEdit is what I'd recommend, as it's not only a hex editor, but it can also read Shift JIS encoded files. As this is a Japanese game, I'd presume that dummy file would also contain at least some Japanese strings.


Opened it up and it's 33 Megabytes of "00" in hex. So I guess that means there's no weird old movies.
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Posted on 10-23-16 10:03:24 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Mr.Tickles
Opened it up and it's 33 Megabytes of "00" in hex. So I guess that means there's no weird old movies.


Disappointing, but not a surprise. Hot Shots Golf 2 has a similar dummy file, but it's 22 MB. Having a dummy file with a bunch of zeroes is actually pretty common.


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