PS2 DVD giving false size info to Nero

[RedCorvus]

Greetings everyone

I have been able to backup my PS2 games for some time now and never once had any problems... until now.

Pioneer A04 Burner
Nero 5.5 Software
Ritek G03 DVD-Rs
Newest version of PS2, Version 9
Swap Disc (mod for PS2 to play backups)

What I have been doing, drop the PS2 game into the burner and then go into Nero and do a DVD copy. Then it does the image to disk and then onto a blank DVD it goes, after which they work fine on the PS2.

I just brought "Champions Of Norrath" (PS2 DVD Game) yesterday and wanted to back it up ASAP so I did what I always do but this time there was a very odd problem.

The DVD is 3.99GB but... Nero tells me that it is almost 8GB! Checked all settings and rebooted the system, still Nero believes that the DVD is 8GB but when you check the DVD drive it is only 3.99GB.

So Nero wont let me burn the image because of the error of the media not being large enough size. Now I have even checked the image that Nero makes and the image is 3.99GB. After all this time of doing movies and games... I have never seen Nero read the wrong size before

Has anyone had this happen before? Know any sites, posts, comments, suggestions or anything else in regards to this?

Thanks for any and all help!


Note: I did search the forums but did not really find anything of this nature and also if I posted in the wrong place... sorry

[Tearren]

You could try to create an ISO with DVDDecrypter on the HD and burn it.

Tearren

[steveryan]

Try DVD Decrypter in ISO read/write mode. Bah! Too late

[RedCorvus]

Thank you Tearren and steveryan, I will try this as soon as I get home from work today.

Thanks for the input!

[Tearren]

Your welcome.

Please let us know if it works, I am interested it this.

Tearren

[handyguy]

No you cannot. CON is a dual layer game & you cannot back it up, period. You could back up one layer & play to a certain point then you get a black screen cause it can't find layer two.
You'd have to hack it & adjust the hex code & other stuff & I dont know how to do that.

[RedCorvus]

As handyguy says, its a dual layer DVD.

But the PC hardware swears its only 3.9GB but after doing a ISO with Decrypter, I end up with 2 layers around the 4GB size each

Thanks once again for everyone's input on this subject. I'm off to go wear my dunce hat for not knowing there was dual layer games out there... Hey look.... another coaster for my coffee mug :P

[handyguy]

There are only about 4 dual layer PS2 games, this is the first one I found.

If you really want to know the games on the scene try ps2-news.org & read release list.