IsoBuster 5.2 Released

[Felipefpl]

THIS IS NOT AN ADVERTISING, THE REASON I ADDED THIS WAS BECAUSE SUPPORT FOR SOME GAMING SYSTEMS WERE ADDED!

I thought the romhackers here might like it. I know some of them recommend isobuster for a few things

IsoBuster 5.2 was released today.

It features a lot of new functionality again. It can now open spanned files and drives, in various combinations as image files, and it can clone huge drives (for instance) to several spanned drives (and/or files). Also pretty cool is the support for many new image file formats, most of them compressed, such as *.imgc, *.iso.gz, *.isz, *.cso, *.vcd, *.zso and more. And then there's extraction of Mac style files and their Finder properties to 'Apple Single' or 'Apple Double'. There is actually a lot more to check out .. see below list for all the details:

Changes / New:

    Support for Compressed ISO image files, also known as CISO files (*.cso, *.ciso)
    Support for Compact ISO image files (No compression but omitted sectors) (*.cso, *.wbi)
    Support for (compressed) ZISO image files (*.zso, *.ziso)
    Support for (compressed) DAX image files (*.dax)
    Support for (compressed) JSO image files (*.jso)
    Support for (compressed) ISZ image files (*.isz)
    Support for (compressed) VCD image files (*.vcd)
    Support for (compressed) IMGC image files (*.imgc)
    Support for (compressed) ISO.GZ optical image files (*.iso.gz)
    Support for (compressed) IMG.GZ memory stick image files (*.img.gz)
    Support for spanned file's list (*.imlst). A simple text file with a file or drive on each line
    Support for 'Apple Single' file extraction via right mouse click (on files and folders in a Mac file system MFS/HFS(+) or on files with Mac properties in UDF, ISO/Joliet and NTFS)
    Support for 'Apple Double' (._*) file extraction via right mouse click (on files and folders in a Mac file system MFS/HFS(+) or on files with Mac properties in UDF, ISO/Joliet and NTFS)
    Ability to open spanned files and drives in various combinations
    Ability to extract image files and make clones to spanned drives and files
    Ability to execute commands via the breadcrumb control (now documented)
    Ability to execute command line parameters via the breadcrumb control
    Support for the Toshiba RD-VX47 DVR
    F2FS File System Recognition
    Support for the Nintendo GameCube (GC) Memory Card (MC) file system
    Support for Nintendo GameCube Memory Card image files (*.gcp)
    Support for the Nintendo 64 file system
    Support for Nintendo 64 Memory Pak image files (*.mpk, *.n64)
    New Command line parameter /CHSP: to change the optical drive's speed on bad sectors
    New Command line parameter /DELAY: to introduce waits between reads, in case of bad sectors (Same as via the GUI but with more options)
    Use your own icons inside IsoBuster is now documented

Improvements:

    FAT handling rewritten (A generic FAT implementation for all type FATs, used by various file systems including the FAT file system itself)
    Analyzing a FAT in search of files without the need to parse the entire file system or do a full scan has been improved
    Analyzing a FAT on its own is now part of the generic FAT implementation and therefore also available for GC MC and other similar file systems
    FAT file systems that miss the MBR signature are now parsed as well (As seen on some Toshiba DVR)
    Improved showing properties for various objects
    GameCube Optical File Systems don't show the extra [SYSTEM] icon anymore. The files can now be inspected as $Meta files
    The UDF file system (and its Recovered variants) now expose $Meta files: $AVDP, $PVD, $LVD, ..
    ISO, Joliet and Rock Ridge File Systems now expose $Meta files: $VD and $PathTable
    XFS filenames are now considered UTF8 instead of ANSI
    Partition information is now shown as "Source" when cloning a partition (instead of just the source drive information)
    Tracks, Partitions and Sessions can now also have the 'compressed' property set, when they are part of a compressed image file for instance
    The ability to clone over drives that are BitLocker encrypted and that are currently locked by Windows has been improved (Also best use Windows' Disk Management to remove the drive letter first)
    Support for *.bin, *.b01, *.b02, .. multi-file naming
    Command line parameter /EP: now supports a comma separated list (no need to add /EP: per switch)
    Command line parameter /EP:NCD can now be used to suppress the destination check dialog
    Command line parameter /EP:NFS can now be used to suppress the 'Not enough free space' dialog
    Command line parameter /EF: now also supports /ef:mfs
    Command line parameter /EF: now also supports /ef:mac
    Command line parameter /CI: now also supports /ci:d for completion on demand
    Command line parameter /ET: now supports /et:mcb, /et:asn and /et:adb to extract as MacBinary, Apple Single or Apple Double
    Improved MacBinary header creation during extraction
    MacBinary extraction is not a global setting anymore for UDF, ISO/Joliet and NTFS, only for MFS and HFS(+)
    IsoBuster now replaces illegal filename characters (for Windows) when extracting from MFS and HFS(+) using the exact same characters a Mac would use (For instance if it were to save to a Windows file system like FAT32)
    The filename renaming functionality in case of same-name files has been improved, especially when the file name contains more dots than just the one near the end
    IsoBuster now also aborts during completion on demand on read errors (for instance when testing file readability or while performing a surface scan) if that is the setting in Scan options
    Some more scaling improvements
    Plenty of other tweaks and improvements

Fixes:

    IsoBuster now cleans up unused drive handles straight away. Windows Auto-play doesn't play nice with open handles, so when IsoBuster was running and a CD was inserted, Windows, depending on the system settings, would immediately eject the disc again

https://www.isobuster.com/news/isobuster_5.2_release_notes

[tygerbug]

IsoBuster is a very useful program, if you're working with physical discs and disc images. It can often extract data that other programs can't.

[Jorpho]

Too bad it's shockingly expensive. But I guess a lot of the features that aren't in the free version are still covered by other programs out there. (The lack of UDF support was a frustrating omission.)

[Felipefpl]

Too bad it's shockingly expensive. But I guess a lot of the features that aren't in the free version are still covered by other programs out there. (The lack of UDF support was a frustrating omission.)

It says it supports UDF files here:

https://www.isobuster.com/isobuster.php

[tygerbug]

I ended up paying for the program because I was working with a lot of discs and knew it would be useful.

[Jorpho]

It says it supports UDF files here:

Very good, sir. But it does not support extracting files from UDF filesystems in the free version, as per https://www.isobuster.com/bn.php .