Purkinje
December 3rd, 2011, 07:13
So I've been doing some digging and research on why Xbox discs are not readable by DVD drives in PCs. I came across a Wikipedia article that cited a source that is not longer on the net (copying-xbox-games.com if you were curious). The citation was the following:
"Guide to setup EvolutionX". Retrieved 2010-01-06. "The reason that you have to convert the EvolutionX files to an ISO format is because your Xbox uses a special "xISO" format to read the DVD's. That's why Xbox DVD's can't be read on a standard computer. You use a program called xISO to create that ISO, then burn the ISO to a CDRW. It's in a format called "UDF" so that your Xbox can read the disc. Since the data is encoded in the UDF format, you won't be able to view the files on your PC once they are burned to CDRW."
My question is purely theoretical. Is it theoretically possible to somehow get the PC DVD drive to communicate with the xISO format? Would it be through custom firmware for each and every make and model of DVD drive out there? Could the drive be tricked somehow into copying the data, and then converting it afterwards? Also, are there any other resources/documentation on the xISO format?
This may be a silly question -- but sometimes I get interesting answers to what I thought was a silly question, so I tend to ask them anyway if I can't find out the answer on my own. The reason I ask is that I'd like to try my hand at contributing to an emulator, and depending on the answer, this may be where I start. I don't have a lot of experience in this particular area of programming, but I do know quite a bit about C/C++ itself, as well as Java, Python, and a few other languages. I've also made significant progress on a chip-8 emulator, so I have a meager understanding of the structure of an emulator.
Thanks a lot for your help,
Purkinje
"Guide to setup EvolutionX". Retrieved 2010-01-06. "The reason that you have to convert the EvolutionX files to an ISO format is because your Xbox uses a special "xISO" format to read the DVD's. That's why Xbox DVD's can't be read on a standard computer. You use a program called xISO to create that ISO, then burn the ISO to a CDRW. It's in a format called "UDF" so that your Xbox can read the disc. Since the data is encoded in the UDF format, you won't be able to view the files on your PC once they are burned to CDRW."
My question is purely theoretical. Is it theoretically possible to somehow get the PC DVD drive to communicate with the xISO format? Would it be through custom firmware for each and every make and model of DVD drive out there? Could the drive be tricked somehow into copying the data, and then converting it afterwards? Also, are there any other resources/documentation on the xISO format?
This may be a silly question -- but sometimes I get interesting answers to what I thought was a silly question, so I tend to ask them anyway if I can't find out the answer on my own. The reason I ask is that I'd like to try my hand at contributing to an emulator, and depending on the answer, this may be where I start. I don't have a lot of experience in this particular area of programming, but I do know quite a bit about C/C++ itself, as well as Java, Python, and a few other languages. I've also made significant progress on a chip-8 emulator, so I have a meager understanding of the structure of an emulator.
Thanks a lot for your help,
Purkinje