Few Questions. (Page 1 of 3)

ya i mean combining DATA & AUDIO tracks

Thanks a lot for ur quick response.

PS: bye the way did ur other account for my FTP worked or not, in anycase u can get them at UG now.

i Actually emailed you few days back 10) using this site email functionality a username and password for full access to my FTP. i was asking for that.

sorry, I have not received any type PM from You ((

I CANT SEE MY PM BOX, THATS MY PROBLEM !!!

With DVDs I don't believe it will, I tried it with gamecube games and it canceled out when it failed the ECM part iirc. It might work on PS2 cd based games.

Of course you can try it, it didn't ruin my gamecube game.

No, it didn't work on PS2 images, it infact made a 1KB 7z file and my image was gone.

thou i have found few things while testing it. will update soon.

ya i had a back-up.

anyhow can anyone who have Kingdom Hearts [u] [SLUS-20370] do the following things

1) copy the image to a temp folder.
2) then copy the 7za file from the packiso folder and paste it in the same temp folder.
3) open CMD then go to temp folder and enter following command
7za.exe a "Kingdom Hearts (U) [SLUS-20370].7z" "Kingdom Hearts (U) [SLUS-20370].iso"
4) this should make a 7z file check the crc of that file and update if it CRC is 9bd845dd or not.

i think that the 7za file in packiso is a modified version of 7z and that what make same zip on different system, packiso was just a front end to do all those ecm and other functionalities automatically

upload ur image remotediffs somewhere and i will make a patch.

and no, its not the original version, the original beta has a commandline version name 7z not 7za and it also differ in size.

Don't use the 4.58 beta as it slightly compresses better than previous versions
Stick with 4.57 which offers the same compression ratio as 4.53 beta.
(Else packiso'd files will differ between people using 4.53b-4.57 and 4.58b. Since packiso was invented to offer something very similar to torrentzip but with better compression using different 7zip version destroys this benefit )

Hmm now that make things clear, so as long as two peoples are using same version of 7z they will have same zip's, so all we need is some front end like Packiso but for ps2 images right?

Here download this application

http://www.mediafire.com/?4mpmiywwnzg

and extract it, run the packps2.exe and then select the folder where iso files are and press start  compression button.

update me if u get any error, (u will need .net framework 2.0 for it to run thou)

also do check if it work with file above 2GB, it should work.

and can someone check it on Kingdom Hearts [u] [SLUS-20370] and update if there crc of resulting 7z file is 9bd845dd  or not.

It is not torrentzip's fault that it does not work on files > 2GB. It's an inherent zip misfeature. Zip is a very old format where people only dreamed about files that big. Also it had to work with very little memory so the dictionary it uses is very small (32kb) compared to more modern archivers (rar has up to 4mb dictionary, 7z can use up to 64mb [provided you have the memory for that])
Though the zip format gets still developed and it is possible to use it with a bigger dictionary and also with lzma as compression method, this is far away from being standard yet, so most zip applications cannot read those zip archives. (Zip is more of a container format where you can use different compression formats like store, implode, deflate... and on. But even the deflate64 method which has been integrated into zip is not supported by many applications yet [which is just deflate with a 64kb dictionary])
Maybe in the future there will be a zip feature to allow files >2gb.

There are other limitations aswell for zip files like no unicode support and a timestamp accuracy of 2 seconds, but I will stop here.