This guide was created to help even a newbie successfully back up PS2 games. Before continuing track down these tools, you will need them to continue. Hardware Required: DVD burner (believe it or not, it has been asked many times if you need one) Mod Chip or Swap Magic Blank DVD –R At least 20 gigs of free space. 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. 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… If you’re game won’t boot! Read below It would be advised to scan through your folder after you have extracted the iso (in step 2) for dummy files. 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. 2) 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. 3) 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. These files will always be in the main folder of the iso. 4) 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) Patch complete! Burn it at 4x. If anyone has any suggestions on how to improve the guy please feel free to comment, I will be re-writing it soon and adding pictures to make it easy to use. And if anyone is stuck feel free to ask questions and ill try my best to help out Created by black_ice
