Differences between ISO making programs

Book · August 2nd, 2006

Are there any differences between ISO making programs ? And if there are, which one is considered to be the best? Alcohol 120?

Silenus · August 2nd, 2006

There is a Software discussion section of the forums here.
Where I think your question is more fitted.

Coolsvilleman · August 2nd, 2006

There are tons but ya the easiest is alchol 120%.

Celine · August 2nd, 2006

Think you might be better off asking at forums which are specifically about caring for your discs?

http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?&forumid=52, among many others.

**General Plot** · August 2nd, 2006

Moved to Software Discussion.

Book · August 2nd, 2006

So are there any differences??

a_en · August 2nd, 2006

they is no difference (i dunno :P), they just better than other.

Book · August 2nd, 2006

better in what way?!

Kazuya Mishima · August 2nd, 2006

I.e. Alcohol reads parts of some scratched cds than isobuster can't. Other than that they all do the same. The interface in alcohol is straightforward while in isobuster you have to choose between 5-6 different kind of isos.

Book · August 4th, 2006

How can it read the parts if they are scratched, or does it just skip the bad sectors? So alcohol is better (in its code) since it can read them?

Mr. Killjoy · August 4th, 2006

Some softwares allow to set a read retry on errors (or automaticly do it), sometimes it's enough to recover datas that are hard to read, but not the totally unreadable ones.

Book · August 10th, 2006

So you say that alcohol 120% automatically retries to read data on a scrached surface ? So I suppose the best one is alcohol? UltraISO also ha high reviews on download.com. Has anybody tried this one? I have also tried MagicISO and they created same-size images, so I suppose they do the same work?

Exodus · August 10th, 2006

I have UltraISO, but I've only ever used it to convert an image. Alcohol has always proved to be reliable, so I never bothered with others.

forkart · August 14th, 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by Book

Are there any differences between ISO making programs ? And if there are, which one is considered to be the best? Alcohol 120?

I use magiciso. It does a good work on making iso image.
http://www.magiciso.com/

Vanit · August 14th, 2006

Also never trust reviews of programs on download.com or any other website because its usually bs. The program I use for making iso's is nero because the cd/dvd images it makes usually work whereas when I'm making iso of my PS2 games with other programs the games might not boot on pcsx2. Also when my friend leant me his burnt DC games for me to copy, only the cd images made with nero would boot with chankast.

I apologize for mentioning piracy. But you can't deny its most relevant when comparing the qualities of imaging programs.

**refraction** · August 14th, 2006

yes but i cant deny you are talking about piracy.

you know the rules, keep it clean

UniverseJDJ · August 15th, 2006

I use a combination of UltraISO and PowerISO...

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Book ***** Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Earth Posts: 100	How can it read the parts if they are scratched, or does it just skip the bad sectors? So alcohol is better (in its code) since it can read them?

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Book ***** Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Earth Posts: 100	So you say that alcohol 120% automatically retries to read data on a scrached surface ? So I suppose the best one is alcohol? UltraISO also ha high reviews on download.com. Has anybody tried this one? I have also tried MagicISO and they created same-size images, so I suppose they do the same work?

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Vanit Heretic Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Australia! Posts: 2,701	Also never trust reviews of programs on download.com or any other website because its usually bs. The program I use for making iso's is nero because the cd/dvd images it makes usually work whereas when I'm making iso of my PS2 games with other programs the games might not boot on pcsx2. Also when my friend leant me his burnt DC games for me to copy, only the cd images made with nero would boot with chankast. I apologize for mentioning piracy. But you can't deny its most relevant when comparing the qualities of imaging programs. __________________ Click here to download my Sin and Punishment English translation.

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