The disc was freezing in a cut-scene after you go back to Roan's city, but it was repacked May 22th 2009. Now everything is working fine. If you have the old version, grab the repacked version and load your save normally.
Grandia II (Single Disc) (Repack)
Dream Resurrection
Dream Resurrection or DCRES is a project maintained by TuxTheWise. The goal is making high quality releases, caring about dummy (faster loadings), file order (GD or custom that makes loadings faster and reader noise quieter), downsampling (the best quality with available space) and selfboot. Please always see readme files of each game, they always have important information. Feedback? Suggestions? Problems? Fell free to send a PM.
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Review by IGN (http://dreamcast.ign.com/articles/161/161012p1.html)
Readme file:
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Dreamcast Resurrection - 2009 (since 2008)
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Grandia II [Single Disc] (NTSC-U) *Repack*
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The game was freezing on a cut-scene after you go back to Roan's city. It took a while but I found
out the problem. For some reason, the song that played on the cut-scene was freezing the game if
it was downsampled, but after I restored the original file everything worked again. It increased
only around 600kb on overburn, so I doubt you'll have any problems burning this. At least, I
hadn't.
I hope this is the final release, I can't work on this game anymore LOL.
Don't forget reading the original readme below, it has important information. If this repack is
the first download for you of my release, be sure to read the overburn information.=====================
Original readme file:
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Grandia II [Single Disc] (NTSC-U)
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Ripped: Nothing (!).
Downsampled: All sounds monoized (including video's); voices downsampled; videos downsampled.
Source: Echelon's release, GD dump.
=== ATTENTION: ===
This release is for standard 80min CD-R but it needs around 5mb overburn (< 1%). I tested burning
this in two different brands of CD-R and in one CD-RW, burning ended without errors and all data
could be read with success in my PC DVD drive. Both CD-R booted and worked alright in my Dreamcast.
The boot binary is in the "critical" zone (overburnt), so if your game boots nice it won't present
any errors after since other files are in the "safe" zone.
So, for burning, be sure to use a nice brand 80min CD-R. Getting a bigger CD is not necessary. Burn
in a good speed (4x, 8x or 16x) and I doubt you'll have any problem.
To burn this with DiscJuggler, you have to go in the "Advanced Tab" and mark "Overburn CD", else it
will say media is too small and it will cancel recording. If you're using Alcohol 120%, you'll have
to figure out how to record by yourself.
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My last release was a split release following Echelon's file separation. However, some people were
complaining that the game was freezing in a part in second disc, so I had to take a look on that.
I was bored anyway, so I took a time to analyse this game more deeply and see if I could make it
fit on a single disc. All single discs versions of Grandia II that I saw had the videos ripped,
what is really annoying.
I'll save you from listening all my story (and myself of writing it all), and I'll tell you the
final part. After some (correction: a lot) of experiments, I finally could finish this release. All
sounds were monoized, as usual, using high quality decoders. Voices were downsampled, and
fortunately they didn't got annoying or too bad. Videos were downsampled to the maximum I could
without making them crap. I used VBR for them, and that was the decisive factor that made the space
enough. Note that videos are ugly, they're far from perfect, but you can watch them without
problems. And by the way, if you check their size you'll realize that it's a miracle that they got
so good. I tried to downsample the skills videos, but if I changed them the game froze, so they got
intact. I also shrinked the AFS files to make the more space I could.
I used Echelon's main binary, and game files are all there, so I'm sure the game will work until
the end without errors. Oh, and I was able to figure out a better file order than last time, so
loading times are faster and reader's noise is very reduced.
Did I make history again? Well, I hope. Enjoy Grandia II with full content on a single disc.
Features of my release:
- Not corrupted files at all, it was made with GD dump files.
- Nothing ripped, and the game is on a single disc.
- All downsampling were made using high quality decoders and encoders.
- Used custom file order based on GD's. It means faster loadings and less Dreamcast reader noise.
- Selfboot.
About the game:
- It has VGA Box support.
Other comments:
- "Extras" folder in the pack contains some useless stuff.
- Release comes with manual and covers.
Download:
Total size: 482mb
http://rapidshare.com/files/235111510/gr2s_repack_dcres.7z.001
http://rapidshare.com/files/235460767/gr2s_repack_dcres.7z.002
http://rapidshare.com/files/235072257/gr2s_repack_dcres.7z.003
Files inside 7z archive:
[\]
< Grandia II (Single) (Repack) - DCRES.cdi >
File Size: 819.037.526 bytes
< Grandia II (Single) (Repack) - DCRES.nfo >
File Size: 6.498 bytes
< Grandia II (Single) (Repack) - DCRES.sfv >
File Size: 492 bytes
< Manual.pdf >
File Size: 4.038.732 bytes
[Covers\]
< Back.jpg >
File Size: 744.525 bytes
< Disc.jpg >
File Size: 67.064 bytes
< Front.jpg >
File Size: 502.281 bytes
< Inlay.jpg >
File Size: 147.342 bytes
< Inside.jpg >
File Size: 620.318 bytes
[Extras\]
< 0GDTEX.BMP >
File Size: 196.662 bytes
< ABSTRACT.TXT >
File Size: 34 bytes
< BIBLIOGR.TXT >
File Size: 38 bytes
< COPYRIGH.TXT >
File Size: 29 bytes
< TRACK02.MP3 >
File Size: 80.031 bytes
Checking files:
Save the text below with .sfv extension and open with any SFV checker. I recommend RapidCRC.
gr2s_repack_dcres.7z.003 02F4E613
gr2s_repack_dcres.7z.001 17988449
gr2s_repack_dcres.7z.002 F093BF85
Extracting files:
Use 7-zip. For unpacking the RAR files inside archive, you can use WinRAR.
Burning files:
Alcohol 120% probably can burn all extensions, but I recommend Disc Juggler for CDI files.