/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7341526]

Where do you get your Xbox roms from? I've been trying to use the archive.org HDD ready romset but it keeps giving me fuckloads of data errors when I try to extract the archives.

[Anonymous No.7341550]

>>7341526
romskingdom and reddit /r/roms

[Anonymous No.7341574]

>>7341526
These are the full size rips if you were interested: https://archive.org/details/xboxcds

[Anonymous No.7341593]

>>7341574
How does this work though since there's a max 4GB file size limit?

[Anonymous No.7342320]

>>7341526
My penis weenis of course. :)

[Anonymous No.7343439]

>>7341526
archive.org is the only other source I know of. I got mine from Pleasuredome, but you need to build up a seeding ratio to not get banned.
http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/torrents.php?search=&category=59&active=1&sort=data&order=DESC

[Anonymous No.7343964]

>>7341526
From AlvRo's collection and archive.org, but they are redump isos. I get corrupt downloads too sometimes, just try to download them again.

[Anonymous No.7343993]

Not retro

[Anonymous No.7344013]

>>7343964
Where's AlvRo's collection hosted these days? The eye got rid of it.

[Anonymous No.7344851]

>>7341526
I've been using the same set of late and they always give an error or two exacting with 7-zip but extract fine with WinRAR.

[Anonymous No.7344857]

>>7344013
they take shit down from the eye?

[Anonymous No.7344859]

Use yandex and search for xbox isos.
Plenty of sites left.

[Anonymous No.7344861]

>>7341593
What do you mean? Just fire up Jdownloader and leech away.

[Anonymous No.7344864]

>>7343964
There's nothing corrupt on there. Just down rely on your browser's resume abilities. Use a proper downloader.

[Anonymous No.7344865]

>>7344857
For PS2 at least, yes. Haven't checked xbox since I don't have the URLs on hand.

[Anonymous No.7344876]

>>7344013
docs google com/spreadsheets/d/19tAZ1KNEUZ58e-4kPJGh947alDb1oyrNpzcnCLk7DEE/pubhtml

[Anonymous No.7344880]

>>7341526
You're about to learn why only retards like redump, in their infinite wisdom they add a shit ton of dummy data to the end of their xbox dumps so you need to use xdvdmulleter to unfuck it. Why not just use a straight DVD rip or even just uncompressed files is beyond me, but fuck redump

[Anonymous No.7344891]

>>7344880
>>7341526
yeah, was just about to say this.
most of my stuff is from theizozone back when that was still around but archive.org is not a great replacement.

[Anonymous No.7344902]

>>7344880
I've never had issues with PS1 Redumps, but I have to agree TOSEC is generally better.

[Anonymous No.7344908]

>>7344880
I prefer redump because I actually know what I'm doing.

[Anonymous No.7344927]

>>7344908
If you ever want to extract music or do game hacks, Dreamcast Redump games aren't recognized by GDITools.

[Anonymous No.7346029]

>>7344908
>I know what I'm doing
>I like that they add junk data that was never there on the disc in the first place
>the extra work is actually a good thing
redumptards should stick to emulation

[Anonymous No.7346058]

>>7346029
you seem to underestimate the autism of dumpers to do things right, not make things easy

http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=Microsoft_Xbox_and_Xbox_360_Dumping_Guide

[Anonymous No.7346098]

>>7346058
>all this effort for dumps which don't work
how about you just get a retail disc, use a softmodded original xbox to rip the contents, transfer it to a PC and use the standard xiso or common iso format for dvd?

[Anonymous No.7346147]

>>7344927
>Dreamcast Redump games
Anyone here able to explain what makes them so different?
>be me
>get a chink gdemu and decide to try and dump the one dreamcast game I own legit to play on it
>dump with SD Rip
>all other files match redump database except one
>end up spending like an hour downloading different pre-ripped images online to compare so I know where I fucked up
>but they're all the same as mine but none match redump
>finally find the one link with the redump dump
Turns out the more common release and the one my Dreamcast shat out are missing a couple dozen zeros in the track02.raw file.
And I cannot for the life of me understand why they would be important or why the fuck SD Rip wouldn't be able to read them.
Game works fine without those zeroes btw

[Anonymous No.7346507]

>>7346147
>not playing games will all unused the zeros the developers originally intended
Might as well just emulate

[Anonymous No.7346531]

>>7341526
the xbox is the only console i have never even considered to emulate, what a piece of junk that shouldn't even exist.

[Anonymous No.7346553]

>>7346531
this one HUEG black and green box makes every PS2 owner seethe
CLICK AND FIND OUT WHY

[Anonymous No.7346585]

>>7346553
>muh halobox

[Anonymous No.7346657]

>>7346531
i think it has a handful of "hidden gems" which we don't hear much about since all the xbox ppl just played halo

[Anonymous No.7346662]

>>7346585
>Super Mario Shart

[Anonymous No.7346684]

>>7346662
>Timeless charm and soul VS tween angst

[Anonymous No.7348492]

>>7341593
There isn't a 4gb limit...

[Anonymous No.7350191]

>>7348492
Yes there is. It's FAT32

[Anonymous No.7350207]

>>7346531
i just want to play mech assault and ninja gaiden fuck halo

[Anonymous No.7350231]

>>7344880
>>7346058
Because the aim of the project is to copy and preserve the original data as accurately as possible.

It's unbelievable, every time, EVERY TIME, every FUCKING time a new archival project is created there just has to be obligatory dipshits that will complain it's stupid and the only thing that matters are playable rips or whatever and fuck everything else. EVERY TIME.

"who cares about emulators being so accurate, they should just work le xd"
"who cares about FLAC or EAC or whatever 128kbps mp3 is enough le xd"
"who cares about redump, trurip, TOSEC, etc. archival is stupid just torrent a copy that works and that's enough le xd"
"GoodROM is stupid, they should just provide one working rom and disregard all others, it's too much work to simply copy the one rom with (U)[!] tags, le xd"
"BD Remuxes are retarded, YIFY is good enough le xd"
"why scene still pack everything in one convenient easily verifiable .iso file in multiple rars? why not just pack 20.000+ files liable to be modified in one compressed file and call it a day? le xd"

[Anonymous No.7350250]

>>7341526
>og SCDA
>unreal championship 2
>doax
>og halo 1
>on pc
LETS GOOOOOOOO
does it support online?

[Anonymous No.7350278]

>>7350231
you're replying to me even though I was telling him they were doing it right, not to make it easier for him, I fully agree with you, I felt frustrated with them too

[Anonymous No.7352415]

>>7350250
Xkai

[Anonymous No.7352515]

>>7341593
By extracting the contents of the ISO to the xbox HDD? there's tools to auto extract & ftp them.

[Anonymous No.7352524]

>>7341526
try googling around for a copy of alvros sets, getting rarer to find & hope you have a 1fichier account

[Anonymous No.7352528]

>>7350231
What's the point of making a copy of an optical disc that does NOT match what the original hardware reads?
Who's to say the additional data found even exists and isn't just a bug in their dumping methods? Could even just be a manufacturing error if it actually is pressed to the disc in the first place.

[Anonymous No.7354218]

>>7352528
>What's the point of making a copy of an optical disc that does NOT match what the original hardware reads
Archival and preservation. Storage is cheap, there's no need NOT to preserve it. And it may be useful in the future.

>Who's to say the additional data found even exists and isn't just a bug in their dumping methods?
Redundancy. If the data matches different methods, it's probably correct, if not, it may be improved.

>Could even just be a manufacturing error if it actually is pressed to the disc in the first place
Virtually impossible. Pressed media are exact replicas of the original glass master and is accurate to the micrometric scale. Any deviation of that scale will result in a catastrophic defect in the manufacturing of the entire disc, on every disc of the entire batch. It's common and when that happens the discs are just discarded, and the machines stamp the layers of aliminium again. It's really cheap actually, a few cents for a hundred discs.