Does anyone know if it is possible to extract media or any other type of files from a game CD-ROM?
Does this work?
Blitz3D Forums/Blitz3D Programming/Does this work? A CD Rom is just a disk. Accessing files on it is no different than accessing files on a hard disk.
Always been curious about how you get the drive letter?
Ross you could use the api GetModuleFileName() and extract the drive letter.
i don't mean any disk, i mean like an x-box disk or a playstation, or a gamecube disk. also, it doesn't need to be through Blitz. this was just a random question that popped into my head, and i figured there are quite a few super-smart computer people on the forum. if it is an inappropiate topic for the forum because it is non-blitz related please tell me and i will not post anything similar to it again.
Unless they have some special file format ( in which case the answer is almost certainly no ) then a disk is a disk is a disk.
If you are talking about accessing the media on the disk on a run-time basis (ie your program is accessing the media, as and when it needs, whilst running) then this is more difficult and certainly not easily achievable due to custom compression/encryption/file-systems.
If you just want to extract music/sound/graphics from a Playstation, X-Box, etc game disk to your hard-drive and manipulate it from there, then this is much easier.
If you just want to extract music/sound/graphics from a Playstation, X-Box, etc game disk to your hard-drive and manipulate it from there, then this is much easier.
I don't encourage ripping media asset from a commercial product.
Also the title of this thread is too generic. You should have posted this isn the General forum.
Also the title of this thread is too generic. You should have posted this isn the General forum.