RVZ - Nintendo GameCube (Redump) - USA Set
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RVZ - Nintendo GameCube (Redump) - USA Set
RVZ - Nintendo GameCube (Redump) - USA Set (2021-07-02)
Format Settings (default):
Format: RVZ
Block Size: 128KiB
Compression: Zstandard
Compression Level: 5
Junk Data it's preserved
Why I used the default compression settings?
"RVZ with the default settings achieves the most optimal balance between compression ratio and playability. Or if you want to save as much space as possible, RVZ with LZMA2 compression at the maximum level.
(just make sure you don't use RVZ with a too big block size, otherwise you'll experience stutters when the game seeks data from the disc -- if unsure, keep the default 128 KB block size)"
Quote by Dolphin Staff member "mbc07", more info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DolphinEmulator/comments/q02im1/so_what_settings_for_this_are_the_best_what_file/hf50m1z/
RVZ (Modern Dolphin format) - GC/Wii
The Dolphin team developed a new compression format based on WIA called RVZ. Unlike all the previous formats, RVZ is lossless and can preserve the padding data on Wii discs as well as the necessary files needed by the Wii's IOS. Usage is very similar to GCZ in Dolphin itself, but it only works on newer Dolphin versions.
Archive-quality dump? Yes.
Gain: Immediate (ISO dump size lowers). Considerable, depending on the game.
Tools Used: Dolphin 5.0-12188+
Can be reverted? Yes.
Playable on Hardware? No.
Playable on Emulators? Only Dolphin.
How to revert RVZ back to ISO that would match Redump DAT:
Keeping the junk data it's important for the preservation sake and to verify the data with Redump DATs, but if you intend to play on the real hardware, you're better off converting to ISO with junk data removed.
Other Regions:
- Addeddate
- 2021-06-28 17:15:28
- Identifier
- rvz-gc-usa-redump
- Scanner
- Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4
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Reviews
Reviewer:
Ové
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May 31, 2022
Subject: what is the total size of this redump?
Subject: what is the total size of this redump?
Can't see the size 'cause all the roms are not inside a zip file.
Edit: A reply would be nice :)
Edit: A reply would be nice :)
Reviewer:
Andrew Hubbard706
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March 20, 2022
Subject: Awesome! Converts easily to iso with Dolphin
Subject: Awesome! Converts easily to iso with Dolphin
These collections seem to be up to date; I'm finding every file I need. I wish I could keep them in *.rvz format but I am using the basic redump dats so I have to use *.iso stored in torrent zip (*.7z) files. These 3 collections are great. Dolphin converts *.rvz to *.iso in like 10 seconds a piece so don't worry about a hassle during conversion, there is none.
Reviewer:
Angie-Neon_Fly
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December 12, 2021
Subject: Almost flawless
Subject: Almost flawless
For Wii users, yoh might want to know there are a few setbacks. This plentiful list collection will run -almost- all games.
Pac-Man World 2 just crashes, I recomend the Europe version instead, but that one also crashes after a while.
Sonic Riders crashes after a few Story missions. The Europe version doesn't.
So far I've only found those errors, but the rest of the games I've tried have all worked fine for me using Nintendont.
Pac-Man World 2 just crashes, I recomend the Europe version instead, but that one also crashes after a while.
Sonic Riders crashes after a few Story missions. The Europe version doesn't.
So far I've only found those errors, but the rest of the games I've tried have all worked fine for me using Nintendont.
Reviewer:
ChadMaster
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November 20, 2021
Subject: Replies
Subject: Replies
@saiyaman23
I don't want to compromise the playability, the default settings were chosen by the dolphin dev team for good reasons, you can find more about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DolphinEmulator/comments/q02im1/so_what_settings_for_this_are_the_best_what_file/hf50m1z/
@Ashnage Narnesfugen
Archive.org scans the files with antivirus applications after the upload complete, if any malicious data it's found, the whole archive it's taken down, so far this archive remains online, that might answer your question.
@Stage88
I tried to upload a text file after deleting the torrent file, and for some odd reason didn't generate a new one, until this solution gets fixed, I recommend you to use a download manager like jdownloader.
@Carlo Andrea Sabatini
Edit:
There are huge advantages by using RVZ over ISO, specially storage space wise, maybe RomCenter it will support RVZ one day too, that would make things easier for you. There are some archives in this platform that have gamecube ISOs sets, some are a bit outdated, but you can get the missing files from here and convert it back to ISO.
The RVZ can be reverted to ISO that matches with Redump dat, all you need it's to open dolphin, set up the directory where you put the RVZ files, which will fullfill the gameslist, then select the games you want to restore, right click, and convert to ISO, is not much different from extracting from ZIP files actually xD
https://imgur.com/a/XWmsnoR
@mjr_awesome
Thanks for the comment ;)
For higher compression purposes, there are better options, but RVZ it's a playable format, so I didn't want to compromise the performance during gameplay.
That's why I went for the default settings, instead of using compression ratio level 22 or changing the compression algorithm to something else.
Zstandard provides faster compression and decompression performance than LZMA/LZMA2, I assume Dolphin takes advantage of that to unpack data into RAM.
I don't want to compromise the playability, the default settings were chosen by the dolphin dev team for good reasons, you can find more about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DolphinEmulator/comments/q02im1/so_what_settings_for_this_are_the_best_what_file/hf50m1z/
@Ashnage Narnesfugen
Archive.org scans the files with antivirus applications after the upload complete, if any malicious data it's found, the whole archive it's taken down, so far this archive remains online, that might answer your question.
@Stage88
I tried to upload a text file after deleting the torrent file, and for some odd reason didn't generate a new one, until this solution gets fixed, I recommend you to use a download manager like jdownloader.
@Carlo Andrea Sabatini
Edit:
There are huge advantages by using RVZ over ISO, specially storage space wise, maybe RomCenter it will support RVZ one day too, that would make things easier for you. There are some archives in this platform that have gamecube ISOs sets, some are a bit outdated, but you can get the missing files from here and convert it back to ISO.
The RVZ can be reverted to ISO that matches with Redump dat, all you need it's to open dolphin, set up the directory where you put the RVZ files, which will fullfill the gameslist, then select the games you want to restore, right click, and convert to ISO, is not much different from extracting from ZIP files actually xD
https://imgur.com/a/XWmsnoR
@mjr_awesome
Thanks for the comment ;)
For higher compression purposes, there are better options, but RVZ it's a playable format, so I didn't want to compromise the performance during gameplay.
That's why I went for the default settings, instead of using compression ratio level 22 or changing the compression algorithm to something else.
Zstandard provides faster compression and decompression performance than LZMA/LZMA2, I assume Dolphin takes advantage of that to unpack data into RAM.
Reviewer:
saiyaman23
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November 19, 2021
Subject: Compression level
Subject: Compression level
Why 5 instead of compression level 22?
Reviewer:
Ashnage Narnesfugen
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November 10, 2021
Subject: Are those files virus free?
Subject: Are those files virus free?
i'm actually downloading TLZ TP, and i'm curious to know if the files are completely safe.
Reviewer:
Stage88
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July 25, 2021
Subject: I found a way of fixing the torrent
Subject: I found a way of fixing the torrent
@ChadMaster
Thanks for your reply! Do you plan on uploading any more CHD rom sets? I really appreciate your hard work :)
Thanks for your reply! Do you plan on uploading any more CHD rom sets? I really appreciate your hard work :)
Reviewer:
Carlo Andrea Sabatini
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July 6, 2021
Subject: Not dat friendly
Subject: Not dat friendly
Mate whenever i verify the roms downloaded with the dat from gamecube you provided by redump.org i never get the green on romcenter. They never get recognized which will make it impossible to have updated when dats get updated aswell. They dont seem to be the real redump versions from redump.org dats, otherwise they d be recognized by the dat itself.
Edit: Thanks for it. Yah unlucky that's gonna be real bothering considering the gamecube set is one of the heaviest and everytime i would need to convert to iso everything in order to know what i miss when i want to updated.
Edit: Thanks for it. Yah unlucky that's gonna be real bothering considering the gamecube set is one of the heaviest and everytime i would need to convert to iso everything in order to know what i miss when i want to updated.
Reviewer:
mjr_awesome
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July 5, 2021
Subject: LZMA/LZMA2 vs Zstandard
Subject: LZMA/LZMA2 vs Zstandard
LZMA and LZMA2 compression provides notable space savings over Zstandard when it comes to RVZ, but I'm sure you already know that. Thanks for your uploads.