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Dark Sonic, posted Wed Dec 25, 2019 10:16 am (52779)

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How to edit the .ELF file in the PS2 version so that the offsets are read correctly in the assembled new create .CVM archive and the game does not crash?

I encountered this problem when I edited their .CVM archives in Sonic Heroes, Shadow The Hedgehog and in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity. This is a kind of ISO archive, only with its own title.
What tools I just didn't use, and DkZ Studio, and just rebuild the .CVM archive using Xpert 2.0, and in Apache - the result is the same - the games crash as soon as the main menus appear.
If at least one file in this archive exceeds the original, the game crashes. After reading various forums, I rather ran into a similar problem that the user described on the example of Persona 3 on PS2.
Can you help with the problem? Can anyone write a script or tool for the games mentioned above?
Link to a description of a similar problem - https://aloshi.com/archives/44

I attach the original files from 3 games:

Sonic Heroes PS2 - https://mega.nz/#F!0t1hzSiJ!x8Por5J9_do7GFn0GqRBGw

Shadow The Hedgehog PS2 - https://mega.nz/#F!g50zySIY!j__kBZye9YxZ_oXQc0sB3w

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity PS2 - https://mega.nz/#F!k4tBFC6L!fFh9vB22DDXGDTZr9_6qOA