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7/30/2019 How to RIP Games

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How to RIP gamesThere are many people trying to learn how to RIP PC games, but have no idea how to start.I just thought i might give a small tutorial to help those to begin.

PC game RIPs can be done in two ways,

1. Ripping-off content that is not essential

2. Plain simple compressionRipping-off content

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Games contain Audios, Cinematics (Cut-scenes), Credits, Unlockables, Extras and supportfor other languages. Not all these are essential to play the game. Some or all of these maybe removes to reduce the size of the game.

Steps (Common to all RIPs)

1. Install the game to your hard drive

2. Download and install any requires patch for the game

3. Download a working crack and apply it

4. Run the game once and verify that the crack works, also goto options and reduce all thedisplay options to LOW (helps low end PCs run your rip)

Steps to Remove contents

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 requiredexcept the primary language (ex. English).

1. Browse to the location of the game and search the subfolders for any files/ folders namedafter languages.

Note: Shortforms of languages may also be used such as En-English, Po-Polish, Es-Spanish,Ru-Russian, etc.

2. Delete all other languages but your primary language

Note 1: It is better to create a dump folder where you move all these files so that you mayrecover 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 properlywithout 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 thevideos. These files can be viewed and recoded using RAD game toolsfrom http://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm

5. You can also recode the cut-scenes to a lower resolution or frame rate to reduce gamesize without 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, Introvideo or developer logo.

7. Run the game to make sure the game does not pop up any error messages. If youencounter any errors at the playback of the deleted videos, you may create a black jpegpicture and encode it into a bink video using RAD video tools (more details will be publishedin the advance ripping tutorial).

8. Similarly look for a folder named Audio / Sounds

9. You may delete the unnecessory audio files (but make sure you do not delete any gamesounds, 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 thegame 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 thegame files to reduce size

Steps to Compress game files

Let me cover the basic compression alone now. More detailed compression for specific filetypes will be covered in my later posts.

Things needed:

Check Download Links 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.

3.Select the entire game folder

4. Select the Add Selected button

5. You can specify the name of the archive to be created at the top of this window

6. Under Compression choose ALZ-3 (Best) and enable multimedia compression

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7. Under options make sure Include Subdirectories is selected and select Store relativepaths

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.

Creating a Batch file

1. Open the folder where our compressed game file is present

2. Open notepad and type the text between the horizontal lines

Quote:

_________________COPY ___ START___________________@echo off

_________________COPY ____ END ____________________

Note: Now we need to display a message about the name of the game and the name of theripper so for this we’ll use a command called echo

Quote:

_________________COPY ___ START___________________

echo GAME NAME

echo RIPPED BY “YOUR NAME”

echo.

echo.

echo.

echo.

pause

__________________COPY ____ END ___________________

egQuote:

@echo off color 0C



clsecho Do You Wish To Copy YourGAME To Program Files? Yes (Y) or No (N)....SET /P M=IF %M%==y GOTO copyIF %M%==n GOTO finish

After that Add ThisQuote:

:copydel FILENAME.uha nuldel UHARC.exe nulxcopy /E /Y "*.*" "C:\Program files\" nulcopy /E /Y "*.*" "E:\Program files\" nulcopy /E /Y "*.*" "F:\Program files\" nulDel "*.*"nul

Echo.echo.echo Copy Completeecho.echo.pausenulgoto finish:finish

Some Cool Looking Things For UR BatchQuote:

Exracting... ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 1%%Exracting... ÛÛÛ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 13%%

Option To Delete Or Not

Quote:

echo Delete Files After Install? YES (Y) Or NO (N)SET /P M=IF %M%==y GOTO start1IF %M%==n GOTO start2pausenul

Start One Will Have the Same Batch Exept afterQuote:

uharc.exe x -y+ FILENAME.uha nuladdDel FILENAME.uha nul



****NOTE****

Before The Word NUL goes The Symbol Above On Your Full Stop Button That Looks Like anArrow 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. Burnthe folder containing the Compressed game, SETUP.bat and the compressor exe file to a CD

/ DVD .

Now you have a just created a game RIP.

Installing your RIP

1. Copy the RIPPED game folder to your hard drive

2. Open the folder

3. Run SETUP.bat



4. Press any key to begin setup

5. After install has completed, run the game exe file from the folder

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