I once mastered a PS2 CD game into DVD, because the loading times were driving me insane. It runs so much smoother now.
Ah, 32-bit game hacking. It would be great if all the text was there, clear as water, in handy text files on the CD-ROM for you to edit. No, sorry. As soon as console processors started to get anything close to powerful, one of their most popular tasks was to mangle and compress game text in a vicious manner. Let's just say it's a non-trivial matter for many games around.
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