Moding these Games???

[Hjustin2]

I've always been interested in moding games. Never figured things out, too many different files. Tried with Civilization 2 and glad i had the ISO backed up. HA HA Boy it can take a while to use the CD manipulator to make my ISO. So the question is(there a program that opens the files and manipulate the game)?

[Zach]

What is "these games" ?? Assuming you mean PSX games, no it's hardly possible to modify them in any way. They are all read only files, stored on a CD that can't be altered. In a lot of cases they are also compressed with custom file containers and algorithms too.

You can't MOD CD based games like you can MOD a Cartridge based ROM. It's many times more difficult and I've never really heard of anyone writing tools to do so.

[TchuBacha]

What about ripping > modifying > burning > then loading it on a modified psx?

[Hjustin2]

Shoot i've been looking into moding any game. and like he said i tried making ISO with cd manipulator> edit the rules with notepad>save as>delete the rules from the ISO>add the moded file that i saved>and final, save the changes of the ISO, it didnt pull through. In ran but had glitches till it locked.

[Leerz]

actually it's possible, but only on certain files/games
if the game uses bitmaps for textures (which can be very huge)

then you can edit the game, with CDmage,
import your file and replace it with userdata, from browse,

if you can decode the textures from the other formats, then can import your own textures, to export on the game.

unless it's packed / compressed.

game sample, driver 2 disc 1 and disc2 (the opening, logo's "bruno bonel" and the Driver 2 Welcome Screen)

some bin files there were just renamed bitmaps which can be easily altered,
of course you output file MUST not be BIGGER(but can be smaller) than the ORIGINAL, otherwise, it'll go boom.

if you can get a hold of PSX video converting tools, to and from then replacing movies on some games are possible, (even vlc can play some PSX movies)

you can test it on your favorite emulator, (the stable ones if you may) a modded psx shouold be able to run it as well.

Cheers
-Leerz
Viva Las Filipinas

[Hjustin2]

Well does anyone know a producer that can help hack the psone games, or a small time hacker would work too.

[azoreseuropa]

Go to http://www.romhacking.net and they can help you better.

[Hjustin2]

Thank you, it will take a while for me to research this romhacker instructions

[Leerz]

also, if you could get a look at some of Zorlon's work
(he's made some pretty good PSX game mods, altering movies, and logos etc)

[Hjustin2]

They aint got much im interested in. The TIM extractor is kewl, but I am looking for moding the game play, maybe add new things. For Psone, mostly want for ps2.