Hacking Has anyone tried trimming a PKG by removing extra languages?

DSpider · Jun 2, 2018

Can this be done?

I always ripped out everything else except for English, both for PSP and PS3 games.

On the PS3 I think I trimmed about 50 GB from the Uncharted series and The Last of Us combined.

Some games I manually searched for "_DEU", "_FRA", "_ITA" tags and either deleted them or moved them away from the game's folder (in case I needed them back), other games I just replaced them with 0 byte dummy files.

If you're never playing the game in Czech or Russian, for example, might as well delete the extra languages, to save space on the HDD. The games didn't really care, as long as the system language was set to English or if you didn't manually change the language to something else from the in-game options menu.

KiiWii · Jun 2, 2018

DSpider said:
Can this be done?

I always ripped out everything else except for English, both for PSP and PS3 games.

On the PS3 I think I trimmed about 50 GB from the Uncharted series and The Last of Us combined.

Some games I manually searched for "_DEU", "_FRA", "_ITA" tags and either deleted them or moved them away from the game's folder (in case I needed them back), other games I just replaced them with 0 byte dummy files.

If you're never playing the game in Czech or Russian, for example, might as well delete the extra languages, to save space on the HDD. The games didn't really care, as long as the system language was set to English or if you didn't manually change the language to something else from the in-game options menu.

Yes, this has been answered by me already this week. Lol.

To be smore specific, if a game has TOC that requires files be certain size or specification, its more difficult, but in general you can delete most files and rebuild in pubgen with barebone files in image0, dont even need to dummy them, but its good practice to be able to, just in case.

Sergi8 · Jun 13, 2018

KiiWii said:
Yes, this has been answered by me already this week. Lol.

To be smore specific, if a game has TOC that requires files be certain size or specification, its more difficult, but in general you can delete most files and rebuild in pubgen with barebone files in image0, dont even need to dummy them, but its good practice to be able to, just in case.

Can you link me any tutorial on this?
Noobie here

rahulvyas · Jun 27, 2018

Yes It's possible. Me and my friend we have already ripped the following games
Rise of tomb raider 20th anniversary edition
Far cry 5
and many more

thefunkygibbon · Jun 27, 2018

rahulvyas said:
Yes It's possible. Me and my friend we have already ripped the following games
Rise of tomb raider 20th anniversary edition
Far cry 5
and many more

do you or your friend want to elaborate on any of this or is it a closely guarded secret?

Mo Poge · Jun 27, 2018

A tool that could strip out different audio languages would be a great homebrew addition!

Shah Isah · Jun 28, 2018

rahulvyas said:
Yes It's possible. Me and my friend we have already ripped the following games
Rise of tomb raider 20th anniversary edition
Far cry 5
and many more

Many.. Many.. Questions. You ripped the game? Files from the game? Is your friend on gbatemp? I'd like a word.

/s

Edit: Spent too much time on reddit xD excuse me.

willhack · Jun 28, 2018

Much needed tool!

TrexxaByte · Feb 20, 2022

My initial thoughts on this... generally, a point is made to request the language upon installation, therefore, isn't it a bit sloppy, unnecessary, and wasteful of a user's disk space to install ALL other language files even after we've specified what language to use?! I can't help feel a little irked about that...

tommy28 · Feb 20, 2022

how do you unpack a ps3 fake pkg file so i can delete some files like extra languages stuff like that
i know how to unpack a fake ps4 pkg file cos there is softwares on this site to do that.
but there is nothing for ps3 fake pkg files to unpack them so does anyone know of any tools that will unpack a ps3 fake pkg file.

depaul · Feb 20, 2022

Osakasan said:
I know i shouldn't get my hopes up but goddammit that looks so close it hurts

tommy28 said:
how do you unpack a ps3 fake pkg file so i can delete some files like extra languages stuff like that
i know how to unpack a fake ps4 pkg file cos there is softwares on this site to do that.
but there is nothing for ps3 fake pkg files to unpack them so does anyone know of any tools that will unpack a ps3 fake pkg file.

PKG extractor for PS3:
https://www.psx-place.com/resources/ps3-game-extractor.824/

Btw, don't bump old threads. Better to create a new one under the PS3 section.

tommy28 · Feb 21, 2022

ok thanks depaul for that.

depaul · Feb 21, 2022

You're welcome Tommy! Btw removing additional voices from PS3 PKG works most of the time:

-Extract your PKG,
-Delete additional voices,
-Copy the extracted folder (NPUB, NPEB...) to your PS3 HDD/game folder (you don't have to rebuild the package and install it)
-Rebuild PS3 database and your copied game will be recognized

godreborn · Feb 21, 2022

you can install ps3 tools, then extract pkg will be part of the context window in windows. after that, use ps3 game ripper (also part of ps3 tools) to remove languages and stuff you don't want. they'll be replaced with 0 byte files, and iirc, the original files will be placed in a folder called RIPPED, just in case the game doesn't like it.

godreborn · Feb 21, 2022

btw, run the install file as administrator (may have to run package content id as administrator once as well) to get those in the context menu. package content id is likely to be a false positive with your virus scan, so just add it to the ignore list and restore if it does. once done ripping the package, ps3tools will allow you to create a package from the title id folder or any folder as it doesn't discriminate:

this is over the exdata folder with my rap files, so it can be any folder:

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