How do i go about getting the correct partition using RecoveryExtract.exe? If I drag my game file over it and drop, it just says no files found. Im struggling to convert some nkit files in iso because of missing partition
How do i go about getting the correct partition using RecoveryExtract.exe? If I drag my game file over it and drop, it just says no files found. Im struggling to convert some nkit files in iso because of missing partition
@nanook Hey, I'm not sure if you got a notification from GitHub or not, but I've created a pull request for NKit to convert it to .NET Core 3.1. I did this because I Wanted to use it on an ARM Linux device. I've been testing it by converting my GC games to nkit.gcz successfully for a few days now. I saw that converting it to .NET Core was one of your goals, so hopefully this helps out with that goal. The only thing I didn't replicate was your noted changes to the SharpCompress library since there isn't documentation on which lines needed to be changed. If you can detail those changes, I can look into making sure those changes are compatible with Linux as well. That may require forking SharpCompress with those changes though.
My pull request is located here: https://github.com/Nanook/NKit/pull/3
My pull request is located here: https://github.com/Nanook/NKit/pull/3
I've been a bit busy of late and hope to finish the changes off I'm in the middle of. Awesome that you're contributing too. I'm not precious of the code and happy for people to chip in ;-). There's also another dotnet core3.1 on the go https://github.com/chadneybell/NKit
Edit: With regard to the SharpCompress code. Just grab the github latest. My changes were to comment out 2 IFs that prevented multivolume SOLID RAR archives from being supported. I'll dig out the changes tomorrow night and PM you
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I was thinking that for this to be adopted by loaders there would need to be a library of code written that can be easily included in Wii homebrew. It would need to do the common things loaders do, like:
* reading/playing the banners
* reading/patching the main dol
* code for reading fragmented files
* likely many more things
Is this a pipe dream for users of USB/SD loaders on real hardware, like myself?
Or are we still much too early for this?
* reading/playing the banners
* reading/patching the main dol
* code for reading fragmented files
* likely many more things
Is this a pipe dream for users of USB/SD loaders on real hardware, like myself?
Or are we still much too early for this?
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Hi everyone, I hope you are all well and safe with this current situation. I'd like to post a couple of questions on the mechanics and what you'd advise (@nanook thanks again for your fantastic tool, mate)
For file-backup purposes, is it safe and "advised" to convert .iso to .nkit.iso and choose to remove the "update partitions" in general? These may result up to a 200BM difference sometimes, as you are aware. I understand that these are kept in the \Recovery\Redump\Wii\ folder and those that are common are thus stripped and reused.
But as a rule, is it ideal ? I ask because if ever this "recovery redump" folder is lost from my PC, one may not be able go back to a fully-fledged ISO file... correct?
In this unfortunate case, can we still convert from a nkit.iso file that has no update partitions to a working .wbfs file at least, that would be good and playable on Wii via some USB Loader? I am still using USB Loader GX (yes OK I admit I am an old timer, back from the Wii Hacks forum days, and the confinement took the dust out of the Wii for my kid)
so we are talking actual Wii playback.
Also, I have a couple of EU ISOs that don't match the redump.dat file that I was able to find around, and obviously I get errors when converting to nkit.iso. Could be a bad dump but my belief is that the game portion itself (not the rubbish on the rest of disc) is good to go.
Is there a suggested method to covert this non-confirmed ISO (due to wrong checksum from DAT file) to some other NKit file format and then validate the resulting file i.e. checking the actual game data against some (other) DAT checksums? I would like to salvage those ISOs and not sure if NKit does a checksum validation of the end-result i.e. converted file(s) ?
Thank you again for your time and contributions!
For file-backup purposes, is it safe and "advised" to convert .iso to .nkit.iso and choose to remove the "update partitions" in general? These may result up to a 200BM difference sometimes, as you are aware. I understand that these are kept in the \Recovery\Redump\Wii\ folder and those that are common are thus stripped and reused.
But as a rule, is it ideal ? I ask because if ever this "recovery redump" folder is lost from my PC, one may not be able go back to a fully-fledged ISO file... correct?
In this unfortunate case, can we still convert from a nkit.iso file that has no update partitions to a working .wbfs file at least, that would be good and playable on Wii via some USB Loader? I am still using USB Loader GX (yes OK I admit I am an old timer, back from the Wii Hacks forum days, and the confinement took the dust out of the Wii for my kid)
so we are talking actual Wii playback.Also, I have a couple of EU ISOs that don't match the redump.dat file that I was able to find around, and obviously I get errors when converting to nkit.iso. Could be a bad dump but my belief is that the game portion itself (not the rubbish on the rest of disc) is good to go.
Is there a suggested method to covert this non-confirmed ISO (due to wrong checksum from DAT file) to some other NKit file format and then validate the resulting file i.e. checking the actual game data against some (other) DAT checksums? I would like to salvage those ISOs and not sure if NKit does a checksum validation of the end-result i.e. converted file(s) ?
Thank you again for your time and contributions!
I converted some gcz files in iso and they all end up in a Wii_Match Fail folder. Are they broken now? The file name is marked with a .
I dragged the iso to the convert to iso.exe.
What am I doing wrong ?
I dragged the iso to the convert to iso.exe.
What am I doing wrong ?
Remove them if you want the space saving. If they are known they will be saved to the Recovery\Redump folder, if not (Customs/corrupt) they will be saved to (Recovery\Other). There have been some new partitions discovered I believe since the last release which currently would end up in Recovery\Other. Use nkit.gcz for smallest playable in Dolphin. .nkit.iso wii is not useable on hardware.
All the update partitions that were in the Recovery\Redump folder could be sourced again. Others possibly not
Yes you can go back to a working ISO then WBFS without the update partition. It's not ideal currently. You must set the option to recover but not remove the failed match. I am currently reworking NKit to pull everything together and improve everything. It's going well, however I have a bit of a way to go. This issue will be addressed cleanly.
Ideally it should not error. I'd be interested in seeing the output. I do have an outstanding issue regarding customs on my list to fix. If the image is corrupt in some way it could easily crash out as every bit of the disc is processed. Many custom images have been successfully testing and are 100% convertable o nkit.iso and verify fine - meaning they can be converted back to iso.
Hope that answers everything ;-)
The new version will support reading of ciso, wia. There will be an ability to convert to WBFS also. This WBFS will contain a little extra data to ensure be 100% restorable back to the source iso.
Thanks for the feedback
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Have you been able to set it up correctly?
https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/NKit/UserGuide#Getting_Started
Hope that helps
I would like to try this.
For Gamecube ISOS havin at max 1.3GB of data... how much shrunken space are we talking about?
For Gamecube ISOS havin at max 1.3GB of data... how much shrunken space are we talking about?
I probably need .dat files for the respective games.
Where can I get this or do I have to create it from the .gcz file myself?
I tested the converted games, they run quite normally
Where can I get this or do I have to create it from the .gcz file myself?
I tested the converted games, they run quite normally
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Are you looking for the original GameCube dat? If so it’s found on redump.org. Or are you looking for a dat to use for your gcz files in a rom manager like RomVault or clrmamepro?
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Depends of course a lot on the individual title: Rocky [GRKP7G] happens to be the least trimmable one I have (1.410.144.957 B as nkit.gcz), the GB Player driver [UGPP01] is the smallest (4.131.322 B), and the median one in my collection is 900 MB
Do you actually have a Wii redump dat? NKit, for whatever reason, doesn't come with one - it's included in the "fully loaded" unofficial distribution, or can be found on Dolphin forums
Just a silly question that I need to ask in order to satiate my OCD, for my own personal use, is it safe to rename game.nkit.iso files to just game.iso? The double extension makes my brain itch.
Edit: Oh, and has anyone done any conclusive performance tests on nkit compressed images vs raw?
Edit: Oh, and has anyone done any conclusive performance tests on nkit compressed images vs raw?
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Sure, it's just a name (and GC NKit-ISO is functionally equivalent to GC ISO = GCM)
Define "performance" and "compressed" - NKit-ISO isn't compressed, "just" scrubbed and decrypted (that's why it can offer the lowest sizes after compression with a general purpose compression program) though of course they can't then directly be used;
as said above there's no performance difference, for GC titles, between NKit-ISO and ISO since nothing is actually moved around the disc (unlike less accurate GC "trimmers");
NKit-GCZ requires of course more processing power to play directly since it has to be decompressed on demand, but that's not significantly different from a regular GCZ
Sorry, we can't post links to illegal copies of (parts of) Wii games
, although searching online for "NKit fully loaded" may help
