ISO question

aderack · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Location: Brooklyn, NY

So I've got here an ISO. Is there any easy way to access its contents, without burning it to disc?

I guess one method is to mount it as a virtual drive. I used to have a program for that, once.

Ideally, though, I'd just... crack the thing open and shake out the candy, though. Yet the disc burning programs I have don't let me do this.

Broco · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Headquarters

Use either Daemon Tools (for virtual drive mounting) or Winrar (for extracting).

aderack · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Location: Brooklyn, NY

Whoa. I just this moment realized that WinRAR could do that.

Great! Thread over.

Felix · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 11:03 pm

yup, winrar can look at plain flavor ISOs as easily as it can .rar files, but for any other disc image format, you'll have to mount it (this is awkward but perhaps like the bar for knowing what is what with modern computing).

alcohol or daemon tools, etc etc

Brooks · Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Location: peak caucasity

This's relevant to my interests. Err, I believe.

I don't suppose anyone out there'd care to comment on the feasibilty of .ISO-content hacking?
I'm wondering if text-refits, as applied by groups of bored people to 16-bitters like Chrono Trigger or Seiken Densetsu 3, might be a go-er for, say, PS2 equivalents.

Felix · Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:52 am

completely feasible, but inconvenient as the dickens when you can't actually boot the code without having to burn it to a disc and put it in another machine.

Broco · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Headquarters

As Ethoscapade says. You'd need a PS2 devkit to boot a game off your hard drive, and those are tightly controlled. It will have to wait for emulation.

I'm surprised there aren't more PS1 fan translations though, seeing as emulation is advanced with that platform.

internisus · shafer sephiroth Joined: 04 Dec 2006

aderack · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Location: Brooklyn, NY

Sometimes you eat the bar... and sometimes, wahl, the bar? It eats you.

Felix · Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:53 am

that some kind of eastern thing?

Corinth · thatbox Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Jeff Garneau · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

HD loader might work, but i think the hard drive might be formatted in kind of a weird way when you have it set up for that sort of thing.

I guess you could probably look for decent-looking ascii strings no problem.

yeah hd loader would probably work.

Teflon · Joined: 11 Jan 2007

I think HDloader will only run properly formatted PS2 ISOs. But that's no problem because these days there's tools available that let you roll your own.

I've done all this to hack some PS2 game once, but I can't for the life of me remember what or why.

EDIT: oh right I use swapmagic and a moldy old PS2 which doesn't read CD-Rs no more. I was trying to get some CD-R game to run off a DVD, which is a hugely troublesome undertaking because you run face-first into the PS2's copy protection.

Takashi · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

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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