After playing the hideously fugly and awful Elevator Action update for PSN, I decided I wanted EA Returns on one of my consoles, preferably my Xbox HDD. Normal MAME and other emulators on the Xbox, last time I checked, can't emulate EAR.

But Taito Legends 2 has it on there, near flawless from what I can remember. Thing is, the full compilation about 650mb and my HDD is nearly full. Is it possible to open the file up, rip out all that extra crap, and just have EAR and maybe Metal Black in the ISO?

I have 7Zip which I've used to open ISOs before (Samurai Shodown emulation on PSP for example), but I've never tried anything with Xbox files.

Is it possible? What progs do I need? Is it as simple as busting it open, deleting and then zipping it back up again? Cheers.

I'd actually just recommend replacing your XBox's hard disk wholesale. There should be plenty of tuts on xbox-scene to help with that. It's what I did to mine - five or six years ago, admittedly, but still - and having 120GB in there is wonderful.

Ah, but unless you replace the disk, you'll never be able to run Metal Wolf Chaos off of the hard drive, and really, that's something that everyone should experience at least once.

I played it via disc. Are there improvements when you play it from your HDD? Of course it goes without saying that I loved it.

Otherwise, if they updated MAME, I'll have to look into that. Last I heard people were soldering more RAM into their units to improve compatibility. Problem as always is finding the damn things because they're always hidden away via FTP.