https://github.com/motoharu-gosuto/psvgamesd/releases
This application is designed for two main tasks:
In Laymans Terms:
Think about it in terms of any other scene that you may know of. The new format, .psv, is the equivalent to Game Boy Advance's .gba or for a PC game in CD, an ISO. It's an exact, 1:1 copy of the contents of the cart/CD (including its file structure).
That's why you'll get "bloated" .psv files: if the cart's capacity is, say, 2 GB and the game only occupies 300 MB, then you'll get 300 MB of data and 1.7 GB of filler (zeroes most of the time). That's what happened, for example, with Wii releases and why "scrubbing" (removing the unnecessary filler data to make the file smaller) became such a common practice.
Quoted from Reddit user /u/jravn
This application is designed for two main tasks:
- Produce 1 to 1 dumps of game cards.
- Introduce functionality that allows to run these dumps.
The release of this tool means very little to pirates, aside from the handful of problem games that previously didn't work.
Things of note:
- At this time the plugin does not work with sd2vita, it will unmount and ignore your sd2vita (sd2vita support is planned for the next release).
- By established scene standards all existing dumps are considered "nuked", as only 1:1 game dumps comply with established standards (irrelevant to pirates)
- As a result, .psv is the new official file extension for 1:1 game dumps
In Laymans Terms:
Think about it in terms of any other scene that you may know of. The new format, .psv, is the equivalent to Game Boy Advance's .gba or for a PC game in CD, an ISO. It's an exact, 1:1 copy of the contents of the cart/CD (including its file structure).
That's why you'll get "bloated" .psv files: if the cart's capacity is, say, 2 GB and the game only occupies 300 MB, then you'll get 300 MB of data and 1.7 GB of filler (zeroes most of the time). That's what happened, for example, with Wii releases and why "scrubbing" (removing the unnecessary filler data to make the file smaller) became such a common practice.
Quoted from Reddit user /u/jravn
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