Re: GameCube disc format
Posted by nickiboyee on .
So, im glad i checked this. First of all Merry Christmas and thank you for providing the most extensive archive of games available to the public. Secondly id like to say that ive spent alot of time downloading gamecube nkit.iso 7-zip files. When i go to unzip the file it says its corrupted. Only a handful were successfully unzipped. Third, ive been looking to use .nkit files on Swiss. I have 0 interest for dolphin, i enjoy playing on native consoles. So i please please please encourage you to keep Swiss, Nintendont, & USBLoader GX in mind, not just dolphin. The methods to recover nkit to iso and all in between is very confusing and difficult for my windows 10 surface. Youtube tutorials might go along way. Again thank you for all that you do, and i look forward to a reply
Games in the GameCube Vault currently use the NKit ISO format (.nkit.iso). It's the smallest format available and runs great on Wii consoles. Recent releases of Dolphin however are scaring people away from NKit ISOs and while they make some valid points, it's a lousy user experience (especially for newcomers).
With that in mind I'm considering switching the GameCube Vault back to scrubbed ISOs. Scrubbed ISOs work exactly like ISOs on both console and Dolphin but can be zipped much smaller, almost as small as an NKit ISO. They can also be restored to a Redump ISO with NKit. To distinguish them I'm considering the extension ".scrub.iso". Scrubbed ISOs seem to check all the boxes.
1. Small download size.
2. Plays perfectly on console (same as ISOs).
3. Plays perfectly on Dolphin.
Anyone have any thoughts?
With that in mind I'm considering switching the GameCube Vault back to scrubbed ISOs. Scrubbed ISOs work exactly like ISOs on both console and Dolphin but can be zipped much smaller, almost as small as an NKit ISO. They can also be restored to a Redump ISO with NKit. To distinguish them I'm considering the extension ".scrub.iso". Scrubbed ISOs seem to check all the boxes.
1. Small download size.
2. Plays perfectly on console (same as ISOs).
3. Plays perfectly on Dolphin.
Anyone have any thoughts?
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| Re: GameCube disc format | Vimm -- 12/26/2020 4:03 pm UTC |
| Re: GameCube disc format | NICKIBOYEE -- 12/26/2020 7:43 pm UTC |
| Re: GameCube disc format | Vimm -- 12/26/2020 8:00 pm UTC |