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Ripping-off content
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Games contain Audios, Cinematics (Cut-scenes), Credits, Unlockables, Extras and support for other
languages. Not all these are essential to play the game. Some or all of these may be removes to reduce
the size of the game.
4. Run the game once and verify that the crack works, also goto options and reduce all the display
options to LOW (helps low end PCs run your rip)
If you had noticed any language options while installing the game, it means that the game has multiple
language support. We may remove all othre languages that are not required except the primary
language (ex. English).
1. Browse to the location of the game and search the subfolders for any files/ folders named after
languages.
Note: Shortforms of languages may also be used such as En-English, Po-Polish, Es-Spanish, Ru-Russian,
etc.
Note 1: It is better to create a dump folder where you move all these files so that you may recover
them if your game dodes not load without them.
Note 2: Run the game after deleting a set of files and make sure the game runs properly without them,
if not restore those files and proceed with the next set.
3. Now search for folders named Videos/ Movies/ Art, these may conotain the cinematics (cut-scenes).
Do not delete the entire folder but browse into the folder and look at the files.
4. Most modern games use a popular format called BINK, with the extension .bik for the videos. These
files can be viewed and recoded using RAD game tools from
Code:
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm
5. You can also recode the cut-scenes to a lower resolution or frame rate to reduce game size without
loosing the videos. (This will be covered later in advance Ripping tutorial)
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loosing the videos. (This will be covered later in advance Ripping tutorial)
6. For now you may delete all the videos or just the unnecessory ones such as credits, Intro video or
developer logo.
7. Run the game to make sure the game does not pop up any error messages. If you encounter any
errors at the playback of the deleted videos, you may create a black jpeg picture and encode it into a
bink video using RAD video tools (more details will be published in the advance ripping tutorial).
9. You may delete the unnecessory audio files (but make sure you do not delete any game sounds,
because playing a game without sound effects will be quite DUMB).
10. Finally look for any folders named HELP or Support. These contain help files for the game which are
not required while playing the game, so you may delete them too
11. Now that we have removed the extra content, let us proceed to COMPRESSING the game files to
reduce size
Let me cover the basic compression alone now. More detailed compression for specific file types will be
covered in my later posts.
Things needed:
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/251314070/UHARC_GUI.2007-01-19.zip
Step 1
1. Open UHARC_GUI
2. Open the directory containing the files that you wish to archive.
5. You can specify the name of the archive to be created at the top of this window
7. Under options make sure Include Subdirectories is selected and select Store relative paths
8. Select OK.
Now that we have compressed the game into a single file, let us go to the final step of making a dos
installer for our RIP.
2. Open notepad and type the text between the horizontal lines
Code:
_________________COPY ___ START___________________
@echo off
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@echo off
Note: Now we need to display a message about the name of the game and the name of the ripper so for
this we’ll use a command called echo
Code:
_________________COPY ___ START___________________
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
pause
eg
Code:
@echo off
color 0C
echo Ripped
echo ************************************************
echo ************************************************
echo * * By:Your Name * *
echo ***********************************************
pause
Note: The echo. is used to print a blank line and the pause command is used to wait for user input.
Now that we have displayed the information and recieved an input from the user, let us start extracting
the compressed game files.
Then add
Code:
_________________COPY ___ START___________________
eg
Code:
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Code:
@echo off
color 0C
echo Ripped
echo ************************************************
echo ************************************************
echo * * By:Your Name * *
echo ***********************************************
pause
echo Ripped
echo ************************************************
echo ************************************************
echo * * By:Your Name * *
echo ***********************************************
uharc.exe x -y+ FILENAME.uha nul
cls
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SET /P M=
IF %M%==y GOTO start1
IF %M%==n GOTO start2
pausenul
****NOTE****
Before The Word NUL goes The Symbol Above On Your Full Stop Button That Looks Like an Arrow in a
way -- Next to the ? symbol Asta Wont Show The Symbol
Where FILENAME is the name of the file that you just compressed.
Now save the notepad file as SETUP.BAT in the same folder as your compressed game.
Copy the uharc.exe file to the same folder for compression using uharc_gui respectively.
It should look Somthing like this ---- Except u should only have 1 .uha folder
Now the game has been successfully Ripped. Rename the folder to the game’s name. Burn the folder
containing the Compressed game, SETUP.bat and the compressor exe file to a CD / DVD .
3. Run SETUP.bat
5. After install has completed, run the game exe file from the folder
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