nPetie

I am working on converting a PC roster to PS2, but I have run into a file compression problem (I would post this in the Console forum, but the Console forum does not appear to exist anymore). MVP Baseball 2005 for PS2 (to my understanding) performs LBA checks, essentially requiring that a modded file be the same size as the original file, in the same location as the original file. The problem is, I am unable (with either eazip or gfxpak) to compress even an original file back to the original size. For example: I extract attrib.dat from DATABASE.big (i.e. eazip -e DATABASE.big), resulting in a compressed attrib.dat (185,628 bytes). I decompress attrib.dat (i.e. eazip -u attrib.dat), resulting in a decompressed attrib.dat (751,835 bytes). I compress attrib.dat (i.e. eazip -c attrib.dat), resulting in a compress attrib.dat (246,404 bytes). I have similar results with gfxpak. Is it possible for eazip or gfxpak to compress even an original file back to the original size? If not, is it possible to defeat/offset the LBA checks in effort to load a larger DATABASE.big?