If you load elf from mgs2 in hex editor, you see that used inflate library (v1.2.1). Inflate is part of zlib, that library very portable :) Why KONAMI add this library to projec? May be for compress/decompress saves on memory card, may be for compressed stage.dat for fast reading... hmmm. IL look i...

http://www.gis-center.com/forum/CODEC.rar This link for codec.dat (~5Mb in RAR) from NTSC US MGS3 SE. I think it contains only English language, but encoding of text is unknown :( I downlaoded it and it turns out its the same as the English CODEC.DAT. But i STILL dont understand the point behind ha...

...BUT i DO need to make an ISO file of MGS3 and MGS3 Substance to see if there is any hidden data that might be helpful in figuring it all out. MGS3 don't contain any hidden data. I think models are compressed with zlib like PS2 MGS2. Nah it turned out to have no hidden data after all anyways. Wha...

Maybe that link holds the key to MGS3 extraction..... I mean they are accessing and viewing content of Final Fantasy X, which is another very popular and surely to be secure DVD. And yet, maybe not so secure? These people may have the info we need here! And you will see there is a MODEL EXTRACTER t...

MGS2 is single layered, MGS2S is double-layered. oh i seee. Well either way I already ahve all the stuff off of the PC verison Of MGS2S so the PS2 version Doesnt really matter tbh, THOUGH there IS a metla Gear REX model in the Document of Mgs2 that I would like to have. And idea if THIS is double l...

I mean that my codec.dat has 29839488 bytes :) NTSC version, English text only. Ahh i see. IL take alook in asecond at my disk CODEC.DAT, though It makes no difference really because no one wants to EDIT codec .dat as itd be a wate of time unless you have a chipped PS2(ILLEGAL). Or if u have a PS2 ...

I made an ISO file of MGS3 and one of MGS2 but it apears that neither of them are DVD9.
So they dont CONTAIN a second HIDDEN layer after all.
Only DVD8 CONTAIN HIDDEN layers.
So I gained nothing at all from Makign an ISO of my MGS2 and 3 PS2 DVDS

YES THEY ARE MINE AND ARE LEGAL.

You need to make a ISO image (ISO format exactly), then find a program called Apache 2, with it you should open the iso and look for an option to get the Layer2. With it you can make another iso of the layer2, then you can extract the files. BTW you should know that the disk is double layered since...

lionheartuk , what size (in bytes) of CODEC.DAT from your MGS3se DVD? Size of ELF? (SLUS* of SLES*) Pardon, I dont quiet understand what you mean there my friend. The size of CODEC.DAT you want to know, Well tbh It doesnt really matter to me as I am not going to Extract or EDIT CODE.DAT anyways, as...

Finally recieved MGS2SUBSTANCE PS2 back from my friend :D . It doesnt have a BGM.DAT after all lol, though Snakea Eater does and When i load that into Solids it ses the number of Audio Channels is 4 but then ses it cant do it for some Unknown reason. Have you tried to read the second layer? PS2 Dis...

Finally recieved MGS2SUBSTANCE PS2 back from my friend :D . It doesnt have a BGM.DAT after all lol, though Snakea Eater does and When i load that into Solids it ses the number of Audio Channels is 4 but then ses it cant do it for some Unknown reason. Also as someone has PREVIOUSLY stated there APPEA...

well, i try to be specific regards to the tools but i can`t post it as i`m not online via home- cybercafe. it`s 2003-2006 TURFSTER tool all i can say. IL look into it now then. Thanks dude. But all im able to think of is STUNS and Solidus, file stripper I never heard of that, Il see what i can make...

john_doe wrote:Already done
http://gamefileformats.the-underdogs.in ... orer10.zip
The user interface is in German but it should work without knowing the language.

@MrMouse:
These are the specs, copied from another forum:

nice man.
nice
what forum was it btw?
care to provide a link?

can anyone help me out wth this NO1 has YET provided us with any Parts or even COMPLETE files rfom this game to look at, Thus we having nothing to go on. We only know the type so far. AND TYPE means NOTHING lol, ie: FFX character.dat is 100% different from Sonic Heros STAGE.DAT. But there BOTH endi...

First off I would love to say thanks to everyone who made this tool possible for all of us to use. Its quite fun exporting textures and seeing how they used them in game. Also I have a question. I am wanting to get Snake VR MGS1 model into milkshape. I've looked in a couple resident files trying to...