GBAtemp Exclusive: WiiScrubber

[Dylaan]

All I can say is F**K YEAH! This was the biggest thing I wanted to see come out of decrypting games, although I expected to have to re-jumble it before it was burnt. This is great! Thank-you Dack!

Just wondering, will this influence compatibility in any way?

 

[Upperleft]

i hate compressing my games

especially if it's going to wipe out the music or the cutscenes

but great job!

 

[Playset6199]

Wouldn't it be nice if Wii ISOs were released pre trimmed, for those of us with somewhat limited bandwidth.

 

[shaunj66]

Awesome work, Dack! Great job

Hopefully the majority of teams out there will spot this and "use" it to their benefit

 

[Nekobibu]

i hate compressing my games

especially if it's going to wipe out the music or the cutscenes

but great job!

Oh god...
Read the initial topic all over again, dude.

 

[jpxdude]

Great job Dack

Now, which scene group will use it first ?Â

For those how didn't understood yet, this tool is not used to shrink the Iso size so the data to burn is smaller.
It's a tool to replace garbaged and crypted data unused on the Iso file. The resulting ISO is the SAME SIZE as the original, it's just the data which differs, allowing the RARs to better compress the file to be released by the scene/store them on your computer with less size.

Thanks for the clarifcation! It'll be brilliant when release groups begin using this method, and will help my bandwidth

 

[darkpaladinmfc]

i hate compressing my games

especially if it's going to wipe out the music or the cutscenes

but great job!

This just removes garbage data

.

 

[JKR Firefox]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm almost sure that a few days (or weeks...I dunno...cocaine is a hell of a drug) ago, didn't someone mention the possibility of a program like this?

Offtopic: Bonemonkey is back? YAY!

 

[hOTzENpLOTz]

Anyone try this with Dairantou Smash Bros X?

I doubt there would be little if any garbage data, but it would be nice to shrink it down to a standard dvd.

The tool currently supports single layer discs only (have a look at the readme).

 

[armagedalbeebop]

great news

first the hello world and now this

 

[adgloride]

I won't feel as disappointed now when I download more shovelware

 

[arctic_flame]

Will the groups use it though? They're not 100% accurate releases, if they're "wiped" first...

 

[MaHe]

Will the groups use it though? They're not 100% accurate releases, if they're "wiped" first...

That's what I'm wondering too. The 'scene' has strict rules and as we know, NDS roms are never released in the pre-trimmed form either.

 

[TheWiseNoob]

OH why couldn't this be a python script!

 

[Hellios]

This tool should be mandatory on *Cool* Cats, somebody should notify them immediately.

 

[CockroachMan]

Good job doing this, good idea..

but at this moment it's kind of useless.. afaik, the Wii can't recognize games on CD or more then 1 game on a DVD.. so, even if you are able to change the game size to 10MB.. you still have to use a full DVD disc to burn it! Amirite?

Still.. good job!

 

[Dack]

You are right but it is now possible to transfer the files on t'internet a bit quicker.

I've just sent Thug4L1f3 a pm with a slightly updated version that keeps the first 0x400 bytes of each 'garbage' crypted sector intact. Compression slightly worse but image is a bit less likely to fall foul to the 'random sector read' and check that could possibly be implemented in a future firmware.

 

[djgarf]

Will the groups use it though? They're not 100% accurate releases, if they're "wiped" first...

guess you dont know anything about the gamecube scene then......
starcube were the pioneers of the gamecube garbage wiping method and pretty much all gamecube images had the garbage wiped from them (apart from the first few releases and a couple where it made little to no difference)
it's not a new trick in the scene just a new one in the wii scene and i have no doubt it will catch on(maybe not with this tool as sceners prefer to code their own rather than use public ones)

 

[go185]

Good job doing this, good idea..

but at this moment it's kind of useless.. afaik, the Wii can't recognize games on CD or more then 1 game on a DVD.. so, even if you are able to change the game size to 10MB.. you still have to use a full DVD disc to burn it! Amirite?

Still.. good job!

You still don't get it either.

This replaces garbage data with FFs and 00s, and only "shrinks" when compresses with rar/zip/whatever.

Here is a rough diagram of what happens:

 

[Hit]

excite truck is 836MB but when i create a new compressed iso wiiscrubber make a 4,37GB iso, the same of the original

Don't you get it, uploaders can now share the file as a 836MB file(Much faster download) and then u use the tool to make it 4,37GB again and burn