ISO vs CD-ROM

Seifer989 · May 7th, 2007

I just wanted to educate myself a bit by seeing how other people do this, and if one is better than the other, then why?

From what I've seen using an ISO definitely gives you a boost in performance, but takes up disk space. While Cd-Rom can be packed up and stored away until it's played again.

From what I've seen making ISOs from game Cds are slow and I mean SLOW. But burning the ISO that you made appears to be fine and on the fly. Why is this?

How do you coordinate things when it comes to organizing your PSX game/backup collection, and why do you do it that way? Which is the best way?

Fadingz · May 7th, 2007

1st you should be making copies of your games

Making an ISO means converting the CD format into ISO/img format, hence it will take longer time because it is reading from CD. On the other hand, burning is just decoding the ISO/img format reading from your hard drive (without the waiting delay on your disk drive), hence it is much faster. (very similar to copy and paste in both cases with format changes)
I just make an ISO when I wanna play the game and put the disk back to my pile; when I finish, I just simply delete the ISO.

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Tomasz · May 7th, 2007

A few years ago, I really tried to get CD drives working well with epsxe. What I found is that some drives worked well, while some just simply did not. The main issues were:
*noise: Most drives spin up to very high speeds. Some can be slowed down with Pete's plugin or Nero drivespeed (8x or 16x is more than enough and usually relatively quiet), but some do not allow this to be throttled down.
*spin up: After a period of inactivity, drives spin down; then when accessed again, they need to spin up to high speeds... this causes a stall in gameplay.
*decreased fps: with some drives, disc access caused slowdowns.

In the end, I now just use disc images to save headaches. I just view it like "installing" a game on the hard disk... I have plenty of room to spare and save wear and tear on the original discs.

Paratech · May 7th, 2007

Yes, I like to have ISOs of games I own on the Hard Drive to save on wear and tear, and I also like to back them up in case the original CD "dies". I haven't had a CD do that yet, but I had to resurface a few, and you can only do that a number of times before the CD is ruined.

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May 7th, 2007	#1 (permalink)
Seifer989 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: VA Posts: 12	ISO vs CD-ROM I just wanted to educate myself a bit by seeing how other people do this, and if one is better than the other, then why? From what I've seen using an ISO definitely gives you a boost in performance, but takes up disk space. While Cd-Rom can be packed up and stored away until it's played again. From what I've seen making ISOs from game Cds are slow and I mean SLOW. But burning the ISO that you made appears to be fine and on the fly. Why is this? How do you coordinate things when it comes to organizing your PSX game/backup collection, and why do you do it that way? Which is the best way?

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May 7th, 2007	#3 (permalink)
Tomasz Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 16	A few years ago, I really tried to get CD drives working well with epsxe. What I found is that some drives worked well, while some just simply did not. The main issues were: noise: Most drives spin up to very high speeds. Some can be slowed down with Pete's plugin or Nero drivespeed (8x or 16x is more than enough and usually relatively quiet), but some do not allow this to be throttled down. spin up: After a period of inactivity, drives spin down; then when accessed again, they need to spin up to high speeds... this causes a stall in gameplay. *decreased fps: with some drives, disc access caused slowdowns. In the end, I now just use disc images to save headaches. I just view it like "installing" a game on the hard disk... I have plenty of room to spare and save wear and tear on the original discs.

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Paratech Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Franklin, Pa Posts: 4,056	Yes, I like to have ISOs of games I own on the Hard Drive to save on wear and tear, and I also like to back them up in case the original CD "dies". I haven't had a CD do that yet, but I had to resurface a few, and you can only do that a number of times before the CD is ruined. __________________ -Dreams of getting a new 360 XBOX in 201x. -Current consoles: Playstation 2 and Wii, also has DS/GBA and a PSP 3000 -PC: AMD 5000 2.6 Dual Core, 2GB Ram, 8600 GeForce GT video card, SB Live!, Win XP SP3