Ziped ISO's?

Jim · January 17th, 2003

Would it be possible to allow ePSXe to run ISO's while ziped? I've notice that when Ziping an ISO it becomes much smaller in size and it would be great if ePSXe could run the ISO's when they have been ziped!

**_E_** · January 17th, 2003

IIRC, Mooby Cdr plugin comes with an option to play such Zipped ISOs

Jim · January 17th, 2003

Where can I get it?

**_E_** · January 17th, 2003

there:
http://www.ngemu.com/psx/plugins.php?page=cdr

Jim · January 17th, 2003

Cool thanks!

chp · January 19th, 2003

This plugin read only RAR files and crashes my PC....

JAZ · January 19th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by chp
This plugin read only RAR files and crashes my PC....

It doesnt only read .rar files, its best to make an iso (I use clone-cd) then use the built in .bz compression (put moobys as your cd-plugin then goto configure and choose compress .bz then browse to your iso)
All isos I make work great like this and it also shrinks the iso to a lower size than a .rar file.

**Shiori** · January 19th, 2003

Mooby also said you need a TON of RAM to run zipped ISOs, as it caches it directly into physical memory. Not sure if it can use the paging file, but I think you need 768MB of RAM minimum.

**Snake785** · January 19th, 2003

Shiori, rars, and bz compressed isos work fine on my machine (I have 256 MB of RAM), so I'm guessing it does for the paging file. Well, you better off using .bz because it decompressed on the fly while the game is running so thats pretty cool.

chp · January 19th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by JAZ

It doesnt only read .rar files, its best to make an iso (I use clone-cd) then use the built in .bz compression (put moobys as your cd-plugin then goto configure and choose compress .bz then browse to your iso)
All isos I make work great like this and it also shrinks the iso to a lower size than a .rar file.

Thanks alot.....

I'll try it....

Mmmm.... where you find the "compress to .bz" in that plugin? can't find it... Can you explain a bit more JAZ?

JAZ · January 19th, 2003

This should make it clear but if not then reply back

chp · January 19th, 2003

Argh.... I used an old version of this plugin... (1.4)

Now I understand better....

Thanks again Jaz....

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Jim Der Meister Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Everywhere and nowhere Posts: 26	Ziped ISO's? Would it be possible to allow ePSXe to run ISO's while ziped? I've notice that when Ziping an ISO it becomes much smaller in size and it would be great if ePSXe could run the ISO's when they have been ziped!

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Shiori :3 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Seoul, South Korea Posts: 10,116	Mooby also said you need a TON of RAM to run zipped ISOs, as it caches it directly into physical memory. Not sure if it can use the paging file, but I think you need 768MB of RAM minimum. __________________ "...And when I finally meet you again, I want to ask you - have you found what you were looking for? Because that's what I felt you were doing, all these years. And I want to hear you answer, "Yes, I have, thank you for asking," and we'll be together again, until the end of our days..."

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chp Bip...Bip... Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: on Earth Posts: 966	Argh.... I used an old version of this plugin... (1.4) Now I understand better.... Thanks again Jaz.... __________________ If god doesn't exist in our world, then...I will create god with my own hands!

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