Resistance: Fall of Man has 17GB of garbage? *UPDATED*
UPDATE: Thanks to your comments, we began checking what’s the real score about this issue. It turns out that there are really padding files, but they just amounted to 420 MB of padding per region.
Insomniac Games‘ new title for the PS3, Resistance: Fall of Man was supposed to take up 22GB of space on a Blu-ray disc, giving PS3 gamers value for money and a game with highly-detailed graphics to boot. However, a NeoGAF forum user who ripped the disk on Linux seems to think otherwise. The forum user named squatingyeti actually found over 17GB (17.75GB to be exact) worth of artificial padding which brings the game up to 22GB.
For the less technically minded amongst you, we’ll explain what artificial padding is. It’s simply rubbish data placed on the disc to push the data which is actually going to be used (game data such as music, graphics etc) to the outer edge of the disc, therefore letting it be read first by the laser and making a game load quicker. This may seem like it is a good idea to make the game seem larger, but Blu-ray is supposed to be superior technology and has a constant read over the entire disk.
Hopefully the aptly-named padding files are just badly named files, and may actually do something useful. Here’ one example of said files:
PS3_GAMEUSRDIRpackedmoviesmuxedntscauto_generated_padding_0.bin
We have contacted Insomniac Games about this discovery and are awaiting a response.
UPDATE: Thanks to your comments, we began checking what’s the real score about this issue. It turns out that there are really padding files, but they just amounted to 420 MB of padding per region.
Insomniac Games‘ new title for the PS3, Resistance: Fall of Man was supposed to take up 22GB of space on a Blu-ray disc, giving PS3 gamers value for money and a game with highly-detailed graphics to boot. However, a NeoGAF forum user who ripped the disk on Linux seems to think otherwise. The forum user named squatingyeti actually found over 17GB (17.75GB to be exact) worth of artificial padding which brings the game up to 22GB.
For the less technically minded amongst you, we’ll explain what artificial padding is. It’s simply rubbish data placed on the disc to push the data which is actually going to be used (game data such as music, graphics etc) to the outer edge of the disc, therefore letting it be read first by the laser and making a game load quicker. This may seem like it is a good idea to make the game seem larger, but Blu-ray is supposed to be superior technology and has a constant read over the entire disk.
Hopefully the aptly-named padding files are just badly named files, and may actually do something useful. Here’ one example of said files:
PS3_GAMEUSRDIRpackedmoviesmuxedntscauto_generated_padding_0.bin
We have contacted Insomniac Games about this discovery and are awaiting a response.
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