KAZ Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 Maybe some of you could help answer some questions I have... What does ISO stand for...as in Playstation ISO? Why is an ISO so much bigger in size than an equivalent Mame rom? Like for example: Mortal Kombat 4 ISO for Playstation will be like: 500 mb Mortal Kombat 1 ROM for mame is: 5 mb Street Fighter 2 Collection for Playstation ISO: about 500 mb Street Fighter 2 ROM for mame: 3.39 mb And yet I'd say that Mortal Kombat 1 and Street Fighter 2 ROMS for mame, look better than Playstation. Is it because Mame is taking advantage of a more powerful computer, so the size of the file doesn't have to be so big? I don't know how to think about this, so could someone help my confusion? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceCold Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 I'm pretty sure it's becuase they have so much extra storage space when using cd's that they dont' need to conserve space as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 It stands for International Standards Organization. http://www.iso.org The ISO standard for the PlayStation is called green book which is a modified version of the ISO-9660 also called XA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 Sort of...I think it's really just that an "image" of the entire playstation cd was made, even if the game does not use all of the cd. A lot of those 500mb (probably about 495mb) is just empty space... this was in response to Icecold's post... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceCold Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 I don't think that's it because Raiden is only 40MB, and it has 2 raiden games on it. But yet some other ones are huge, so I think they are using all the space, just not as well as they should. Why do space saving techniques when you have 650+ MB? Where as when they use a cartridge, they have to save space. At least this is what I've understood to be true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 No, an ISO contains data from the disk...not empty space. I would imagine that the soundtrack of a game would have the biggest impact on it's ISO size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceCold Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 kewl, Nukey Shay is back!!!!!!! But I agree with you, and that's what I tried to say, but I guess I didn't really say it very good. Anyways, where have ya been? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 In "lurk" mode occasionally...had to sell my computer. Never had to eat dumpster trash, fortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceCold Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 In "lurk" mode occasionally...had to sell my computer. Never had to eat dumpster trash, fortunately. Oh, that sucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raijin Z Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 When you rip a dualmode CD, you get an ISO and audio files. For distibution, most people encode the wav files into MP3s. This degrades the quality a little, but who cares. You can also substitute your own music if it will fit on the disc.... Nifty, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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