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IIRC and I got it right, I remember something about it that was because the rebuilt iso wasn't 1:1 to the original so altering file distribution along ISO won't be valid in case you want to burn it to DVD but... no source and can't remember exactly

In my case, I'm archiving all as 7z files through the process of ISO > extract > 7z (high level compression) and I'm saving a HUGE quantity of gigs in my backup HDD, so for the way to storing all these ISOs, compressed extracted games is my choice. My question is (as I didn't tested), is OK to re-convert to ISO my extracted library in case I need it because the game doesn't works or because the cluster size is not optimal for a particular game? The reason I'm archiving all as extracted&compressed is the attached screenshot down below, from left to right: Extracted size (GBs expected on XBOX HDD - without counting actual disk size caused by cluster) 7z size (7z preset 9 with some adjustments) Original Zip size for the redump file % of space gainance Extracted vs OG Zipped ISO % of space gainance 7Z vs OG Zipped ISO % of space gainance 7Z vs Extracted

BTW, thank you very much for the GoogleSheet, it's serves me a lot as I did as you and took my selection from similar criteria as you using Metacritic, but having it all in one file is a big work. Want to ask, what does mean the colour code in games column? Thanks in advance!

Just came across this post and I'm a bit on the same situation but I'm on the start point of having a huge selection (3TB aprox.) of redump games that I'm cutting by extract-iso tool and then 7zip them to cut even more space on my storage. However, I have a bit of a dilemma and a thing I like to discuss with you guys (as you are in a similar situation), what are you doing with MULTI/EUR/USA releases? I'm having a bit of trouble testing games one by one and it's gonna be like a lot of time consuming but dumping all the collection as I have it (or even doing a selection) is giving me headaches - is impossible to tell if the whole game will be work as it is (extracted by extract-iso) and I don't rely on those HDD ready collection ready to use (but also I can't rely on only extracting games as I've had some trouble with some PAL games already). Is there any alternative to DVD2XBOX for PC? I would like to use ACL files that exists for some games, maybe I didn't researched deeply but cannot found a tool for that.

To be honest, I didn't even tried to boot it as I can't transfer all files from the extracted game. There's one asset file which filename is longer to FATX support it -don't know if this issue it's due to being PAL version- and tried to look for that file's path into the default.xbe via hex editor with no luck. That made me wonder how to make HDD patches (and if there's an easy way or if, on the contrary, is needed to analyze all the content until find that paths and patching them one by one).

Hi, just started to make my collection and I'm facing my first issue with a game that is not in this list, "Gun". Is there any known way to make patches? As I'm seeing from this post that I'll struggle with some other games too; TBH I don't like the idea of having one games in one format and other in ISO/XISO.