Hacking Theoretic problem with putting ISOs on External USB Hard Drives

[invu]

The iso-to-hdd-loading part could probably be done on the pc. Maybe there will be a tool to do this, or some other way. Though I don't think it's ideal, it is still way better then copying over FTP

Ext2 or similar would have been great. Samba shares should be possible too (I think) and would really be great! But... let's first wait for the loader and see how it works.

 

[waninkoko]

You can create two partitions in a HDD: one for data, and another for games.

 

[invu]

So, we are really talking about a filesystem. Then how does the transfer: Iso->Hdd work?

 

[waninkoko]

Dvd->Hdd
Iso->Hdd

 

[Richy Freeway]

Dvd->Hdd
Iso->Hdd

Any more clue as to how we get the ISO to the HDD?

 

[waninkoko]

PC application made by kwiirk.

 

[Richy Freeway]

Nice. Cheers for the info!

 

[Dodi]

Ahh it all makes sense now.
Thanks for that Waninkoko!

 

[computerboy]

Thanks you Wanin for the info. Just a few questions which you dion't have to answer if you don't want to.
How far into developping this are you? Are you just testing or are you still coding? when will a release be out (how many days, weeks)?

 

[waninkoko]

Testing more than coding.

 

[computerboy]

Thanks for the answer and thanks for all the apps that you've coded already

 

[invu]

And why all the trouble with WBS if you could have used i.e. ext2?

Can you give us some details about WBS?

Anyway, thanks for your time and work!

 

[FoGBaV]

Hi Waninkoko ... one question - will the ISO witch is transfered to HDD be shrinked ?

It would be wasted HDD space to take a 4,5 ISO to hdd witch can be shrinked to 500 MB (e.g. Your NAND running Hamster Game 8) ).

Thank you 4 your great work - and not "showbreaking" on the usb-loader ...8)

Greets

 

[snikerz]

Waninkoko, which external hard drive do you use? I want to buy one that works 100% with your software

 

[DjoeN]

I don't think this is the "Ask Waninkoko personal" topic!

D*mn*d, ppl have patience and wait till it gets released, then you will see and have plenty of time to ask around how it works and what you need!

 

[Sonic4Ever]

I've heard something about Waninkoko using his own file system.
Perhaps this will slim down the size of the ISOs. This would be great =)

Don't suggest stupid theories that may lead to NONSENSE.

 

[NETSHARK]

Dvd->Hdd
Iso->Hdd

This reminds me of the XBOX days

the only way to play ISOs there is by one of these two methods there wasn`t a Game.ISO file loader at all, you have to extract the files from the ISO and play them off the HD, anyway i just wanted to thank you for saving our Wii`s Drive

and all the work you`ve done before

 

[FoGBaV]

What exactly is so stupid when we ask about a function witch is already developed for normal ISOs -> WII Scrubber ...

If the ISos are transfered to HDD in normal Form it will be waste of space on HDD for many games.

If the ISO is transfered in "Filemode" everything is ok ... but this will kill PArtitions witch exists on ISO ...

I think it is a normal question as every other question here ...

Nonsense i can see in your posts blaming us asking questions ... sorry ...

 

[Artia]

The stupid question was: "Could a Filesystem Shrink an iso and slim down it size?"

The answer should be: No. A filesystem is a way in which a storage system is formatted, not a program to reduce iso size.

 

[etrigan]

why not using Samba method? like DOS, it also can't access NTFS, but there's a utiltiy called NTFSpro , it map NTFS as a network drive...
im poor in coding, just for reference

Lets be completely clear about SAMBA: Accessing and continually reading an ISO over SAMBA is likely not feasible for fluid game play. Certainly not fast enough over wireless, and a wired adapter via USB may be a crap shoot also.

6x dvd is roughly 8310KB/s; 54megabit/s wireless is 6912KB/s in the best case. Wireless rarely connects to its fullest. Most I get is usually 6000KB/s on my 802.11g.

As for the lan adapter: 100mb/s is roughly 12800KB/s, thats certainly faster than the dvd. But does the Nintendo Lan Adapter give you those speeds? Who knows.

Now if there was a gigE adapter, that didn't suck over Nintendo's wack implementation of USB, then that would possibly work out. But there's not.

In my opinion it would provide a far better gaming experience to just load the games via a USB drive. The fact that is faster than the dvd should have you all excited enough to do it.

USB 2.0 is 480mb/s, which is roughly 61440KB/s....now I don't expect that the USB 2.0 hack that was released for the Wii will give these speeds, but im sure WHATEVER it gives is going to be faster than the DVD, Wireless or LAN could ever do. And this doesn't count in all the improvements Waninkoko is going to throw in as he develops this further.

Im sold on USB, just hope this is real.