I searched "snatcher sega cd" and google suggested "snatcher sega cd rom"
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by [email protected]
I forgot to explain: The CD-ROM one is also weird.
They're called ISOs because the CD-ROM filesystem standard is ISO 9660, and that's ISO as in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO*).In a different world the file extension/file type would have been dot iso9660 and we'd... probably still be calling them ISOs, honestly, but DOS/Windows only supporting 3-character extensions at the time didn't help.
* blame the French. UTC stands for "Coordinated Universal Time", you know?"
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@Canageek nothing comes on CDs anymore?
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but yeah. over in the PC space, this stuff was always just warez. as in "softwares", but with a Z, so it's Kool.
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with multiple words for different specific types of pirated media (warez/isos/images/roms) it's no surprise the larger community settled on just one name.
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but since it's technically incorrect it does make my bloodpressure go up a little everytime I see it used wrong.
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by [email protected]
although to be honest, ISO was misused a lot too.
an "ISO" is technically a specific type of dump of a CD-ROM, it's the dumped ISO-9660 filesystem into a linear file.But that filesystem doesn't contain any CD audio, those are separate. So more likely you'll see a bin/cue pair with some audio tracks, if the game uses CD-audio (and many did!)
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@foone what do you mean, roms are what you get when you image a floppy with the tab open
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by [email protected]
so often have I downloaded "ISOs" (from Highly Legitimate Sources (says the retrogaming researcher/hacker)) and instead of an ISO file I have one of the 800 different disc image format that aren't actually ISOs
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@foone a streamer I like pronounces Warez like Juarez and it fucks me up every time he does it. I feel like he does it on purpose.
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some consoles even have their own disc image formats!
Ever look into Wii games? It's madness over there. -
There's a whole special toolset for converting between ISOs, WDF, WIA, CISO, GCZ, and WBFS.
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@Mareepy I'm sure he does. I've definitely done that more than once
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@foone Wait, I thought they were named after the spaceknight. /s
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@foone Huh. All this time I had assumed it was "International Standards Organization."
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@foone hold on, does that mean that if I took an “iso” with dd if=device of=file.iso that I can salvage the CD audio out of file.iso?
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anyway this has been annoying me for so long that 8 years ago I ported a version of Tetris to run off a ROM chip on an ISA card. Therefore I had a "ROM" of a PC game. I played it in an old 286 board with no drives attached, floppy, optical, or hard!
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@mhoye no, because that's making an ISO9660 dump, that's literally what an ISO file is, it contains no CD-ROM audio. That's in separate non-ISO9660 tracks
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone How do you pronounce "warez"? I always pronounced it like "wares" (like the last bit of "housewares"), but my little brother once pronounced it "juarez" (like the border town), and I previously just assumed I was right.
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. last edited by
@BoydStephenSmithJr I think everyone I know who pronounced it juarez was doing it for a laugh. I always pronounced it like "wares" with maybe making the "S" sound go on a little extra long
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@curtmack that would make logical sense, so of course that's not what it stands for
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