use only dmtool box and make sure you choose 32k alligment or else audiostreaming games will be broken.Hi, i want to compress my gamecube games, afaik Nintendont only read iso and ciso, which is the best tool to do this?
they shoudl all work compressed with dmtoolbox at 32k alligment, only games that dmtoolbox cant compress will fail but you will notice since the games like kirby air ride files get bigger than base iso lolYeah, use the DMTool box. Make sure to check the Nintendont compatibility list for games that work or don't work when compressed.
Didn't not know that.. Thank you for the info.they shoudl all work compressed with dmtoolbox at 32k alligment,
nope gc iso tool breaks the alligment of many audiostreaming games, making them crash with nintendont. it shouldnt be uised, while most games dont have audiostreaming the ones that do are easily breakable with that app.You can use GC ISO Tool to do the job. It's a more complete solution and have more options.
they arent compressed, they are trimmed, so you just loose the extra filezie that doesnt have anything on it and are made of padding.whaou! thanks for this post, I did'nt know it was possible to use compressed image with nintendon't!
Nkit iso is not recomneded for nintendont, many nkit isos dont even work, i cant count on how many reports we had of people using isos that crash only to find out they were nkit isos, they switch to full isos and everything worked, so i would never recommend nkit for nintendont ever.Nkit (nkit iso format) does align the audio and tgc files to 32k. Why is dmtoolbox recommended instead?
I get the point, but can't see why dmtoolbox is different.Nkit iso is not recomneded for nintendont, many nkit isos dont even work, i cant count on how many reports we had of people using isos that crash only to find out they were nkit isos, they switch to full isos and everything worked, so i would never recommend nkit for nintendont ever.
even thge dolphin devs said it shouldnt be used for gaming read its reply
see dolphin dev reply.
And nintendont is much more picky than dolphin which can make many games crash and such.
Swiss' developers at least recommend using Nkit to trim .isos (to the point that Swiss complains unless you use nkit or untrimmed)I get the point, but can't see why dmtoolbox is different.
btw, many users can't distinguish between gcm, nkit.iso, iso... so i wouldn't trust that nonworking reports
its very easy to see the difference. when you trim with dmtoolbox you dont swap file locations around, you just trim the padding they put at the end of the iso so if the game was 900mb and then they added padding to the end of the iso to reach 1.35gb, if you use dmtoolbox you get trim until 900 and done.I get the point, but can't see why dmtoolbox is different.
btw, many users can't distinguish between gcm, nkit.iso, iso... so i wouldn't trust that nonworking reports
i dont know any single title, i heard people complain about games not working over the time and many of them were nkit isos complains, i dont recall any specific game name tbh, like i said, if it works for your games then nice, but please dont go to nintendont thread or github issues complain when a game crashes using a nkit iso before trying a vanilla iso.Thx for the explanation. I tought that these inner movings applied to wii isos only, not gc.
To end this conversation, do you known positively about just one title that doesn't work as nkit? so i can see it with my eyes.
optimized and 32k and then installBumping for 2 reasons:
1- A long time ago I tried this DM ToolBox and my isos crashed no matter what. So, what would be the exact options to correctly shrink an iso? And can I checksum with DM ToolBox?
Extracted + 32K?
Optimized + 32K?
2- Will try tomorrow and don't want to lose this thread.