Hacking An idea for Metroid Prime Trilogy without USB or DualLayer disc

[illinialex24]

I did buy it and I'm transfering it to my USB drive. The metal case is awesome. Support good games seriously.

 

[CheatingSoi]

^^CheatingSoi Likes this^^

 

[xombi-mp]

What I'm thinking is to rip the MPT iso to my PC and, using Wiiscrubber, erasing everything except the menu data and data from the first MP game (that means erasing MP2 and MP3), and then burning it. Then I'd do the same but instead of not erasing MP1, I wouldn't erase MP2 and burn, and then everything but MP3 and burn. That way, you can have the Trilogy in 3 single layer discs, and you'd choose one disc depending in wich game you play; and since all of them have the menu data, the difficulty level wouln't randomly change.

This idea intrigues me. I would like to try it, but I've never used Wii Scrubber before. I have it downloaded and the metroid trilogy iso loaded. I'm wondering how to exactly "erase" something. When I right click on a file it says extract or replace, no delete option. Would I use the Partition Builder and just extract what I need and create a new partition that way? I really want to see if this will work.

 

[heph]

What I'm thinking is to rip the MPT iso to my PC and, using Wiiscrubber, erasing everything except the menu data and data from the first MP game (that means erasing MP2 and MP3), and then burning it. Then I'd do the same but instead of not erasing MP1, I wouldn't erase MP2 and burn, and then everything but MP3 and burn. That way, you can have the Trilogy in 3 single layer discs, and you'd choose one disc depending in wich game you play; and since all of them have the menu data, the difficulty level wouln't randomly change.

God I hope this works.

*crosses fingers*

 

[vettacossx]

This idea intrigues me. I would like to try it, but I've never used Wii Scrubber before. I have it downloaded and the metroid trilogy iso loaded. I'm wondering how to exactly "erase" something. When I right click on a file it says extract or replace, no delete option. Would I use the Partition Builder and just extract what I need and create a new partition that way? I really want to see if this will work.

well you wouldnt actually erase it...What you would do is find the SMALLEST CUTSCENE for example...EXTRACT THAT...and replace ALL THE CUTSCENES WITH THAT SMALL ONE (one at a time testing each) While you may not be able to replace every single Cutscene its very likely you can erase enough to make a decent single layer version (AS WE HAVE DONE WITH SMASH BROS AND WIISCRUBBER) and i imagine this is his goal (i planed on this as well AND I DO USE USB LOADER but i dont want MPT if its gonna waste 8 gigs IMO the lot isnt worth shit...only MP2 is of ANY interest to me on wii.....

But yes this should by ALL MEANS work just fine (This from a guy who has used wii scrubber to hack

The Conduit, (In Game Debug and well as replacing BIK video cinimatics in game!)

Smash bros, (Texture edits)

Mario Kart, (texture edits)

pokemon battle rev (sound mod with soplox)

I can tell you from experience IF YOU DO THIS TEST EACH MOD ONE FILE AT A TIME JUST BECAUSE ONE REPLACED AND WORKED DOES NOT MEAN ALL CUTSCENES CAN BE REPLACED

Best of luck ill look for this about...If nothing pops up ill jump on the mod wagon and see if i cant get it as well

planned on it anyways

 

[lolorlofl]

Or you can just, I don't know, BUY it. I refuse to download it until I buy it. I don't do that to many games, but this game is really deserving of a purchase.

 

[xDlmaoxD]

Or you can just, I don't know, BUY it. I refuse to download it until I buy it. I don't do that to many games, but this game is really deserving of a purchase.

So buy it and stop talking to us about how good your morals are.
@ first post - Just try harder than in the Veteran mode xD

 

[Adr990]

You already can make the Video map of MP2 from 300MB to 9MB, with replacing all video files with the smallest video file.

I'm gonna try it too on MP1 and MP3

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Done.

Video maps:

MP1 79MB => 7MB
MP2: 300MB => 9,55MB
MP3 420MB => 7,55MB

Original Videos: 799MB
"Scrubbed" Videos: 24,10MB

Total differences : 774,09 MB

 

[D34DL1N3R]

After deleting and/or removing files using Wiiscrubber, the iso which is output is still nearly 8GB. How do you get around this?

 

[darksun45230]

^ I believe it's possible to replace the movie scenes with the lowest space consuming file.

 

[Adr990]

After deleting and/or removing files using Wiiscrubber, the iso which is output is still nearly 8GB. How do you get around this?
Delete / scrub more?

QUOTE(darksun45230 @ Aug 29 2009, 06:27 PM) ^ I believe it's possible to replace the movie scenes with the lowest space consuming file.

Yes.
That was/is what I was/are doing.

They did do that with SSBB too. To 'scrub' it from DVD9 to DVD5.

 

[darksun45230]

Yes, but must we 'scrub' the videos? I don't know about anyone else, but I have a 7.39 Micro SD and what I want is to make minimal cuts so as to preserve as much of the game as possible. Is there anyway I can accomplish this?

 

[D34DL1N3R]

I already replaced ALL files from MP3 & the size listed in Wiiscrubber was under the size of a dvd5. When I scrubbed the image after make all the changes... the resulting iso wsa the same size as the dvd9 - even though Wiiscrubber stated differently on the top right before clicking scrub.

 

[Adr990]

Yes, but must we 'scrub' the videos? I don't know about anyone else, but I have a 7.39 Micro SD and what I want is to make minimal cuts so as to preserve as much of the game as possible. Is there anyway I can accomplish this?
No, just replace all videos with the smallest video file.

QUOTE(D34DL1N3R @ Aug 29 2009, 06:43 PM) I already replaced ALL files from MP3 & the size listed in Wiiscrubber was under the size of a dvd5. When I scrubbed the image after make all the changes... the resulting iso wsa the same size as the dvd9 - even though Wiiscrubber stated differently on the top right before clicking scrub.

You need to trucha sing the disc partitions before doing this stuff. Else no changes will be made.

'replaced ALL files from MP3' replaced all files with the smallest files on the ISO?
Or open up all files with a Hex editor and make it really small? (Like only 00 big

)

What did you do?

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Thanks for the Trucha sign tip.

Replaced with 0kb files. Would that not work beings Wiiscrubber already removes the MP3 portion of the iso?

 

[Adr990]

It doesn't remove MP3 from the ISO.

But replace all files with 0kb beings, should work.
(To play MP1 and MP2 trough the menu.)

To do MP3 stuff trough the menu, I guess we need to burn two discs. One for MP1 & MP2 and one for MP3.

I'm gonna give it a shot.

 

[darksun45230]

Yes, but must we 'scrub' the videos? I don't know about anyone else, but I have a 7.39 Micro SD and what I want is to make minimal cuts so as to preserve as much of the game as possible. Is there anyway I can accomplish this?
No, just replace all videos with the smallest video file.

But doesn't that (and forgive me if I'm ignorant here) replace all the cutscenes in the game? Like I said I want to keep as much of the game as possible (cutscenes included unless there is no alternative) so does replacing all the videos with the smallest video file interfere with the games cutscenes/movies?


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You need to trucha sing the disc partitions before doing this stuff. Else no changes will be made.

Is there a link or something to which I can learn of what "Trucha Sing" is? I assume it has to do with the Trucha option in Wii Scrubber?

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Ok, so evidently I'm doing something wrong. I trucha signed both partitions then opened the iso in Wiiscrubber, deleted the update partition, replaced MP3 files with 0kb files, and clicked scrub.

Resulting iso is still 7.91 GB.

Tried resizing the partition to the minimum and I get the same size. Tried shrinking the partition and I get the same size. Tried using trim and I get the same size.

EDIT: Nevermind. I think I figured it out.

 

[ACK06]

I thought that you couldn't modify the game data without throwing off the SHA/MD5/HMAC tables, too. Or is this what Trucha accomplishes?

 

[D34DL1N3R]

I guess I didn't figure it out, lol. Still getting the same filesize even though scrubber reports 4202 MB.

@ACK06, I have no idea.