Batch Extract Xbox Redump ISO's to XISO's?

[Squeeth]

Hey everyone, this might be a noobish question but I figured I'd ask it anyways just to see if anyone might have any insight into this.

I'm trying to use Xemu to emulate my collection of Xbox Redump ISO's and I'm getting the dreaded "Please insert disc" error. Reading up on this I found that they don't support regular ISO files and require XISO files. After searching the web I found numerous tools that can do this, but most of them are single file only. One I found was XDVDMulleter but it was not doing the job given my library is located on a mapped network drive.

I found the extract-xiso utility (found here https://github.com/XboxDev/extract-xiso) and it seems to work for single files, but I was curious how I might go about doing a batch extract? I found a topic on this, however the commands discussed weren't working for me.

I have my collection located at X:\Microsoft Xbox and it's all raw .iso files. Would I drop the extract-xiso.c file into this folder, shift right click and run a certain command that modifies it to run until it's processed all the files?

If anyone could help, I'd greatly appreciate it. Let me know if there's any more info that's need, and thanks in advance!

Edited March 29, 2022 by Squeeth

[bundangdon]

Actually, if you're using Xemu, it does support .iso files, as far as I can remember anyways. Have you tried using this in the default command line parameters?

-full-screen -dvd_path

Also, there's a tutorial on how to set up xemu here, in case you might need it

 

Edited March 4, 2022 by bundangdon

[Squeeth]

26 minutes ago, bundangdon said:

Actually, if you're using Xemu, it does support .iso files, as far as I can remember anyways. Have you tried using this in the default command line parameters?

-full-screen -dvd_path

Also, there's a tutorial on how to set up xemu here, in case you might need it

 

As far as I remembered, they did too...but according to their site they no longer do. I posted screenshots of what I read. It's kind of confusing to me since I swear I used to have redump ISO files.

I had it setup in the past but have since rebuilt/reconfigured my library from the ground up.

I'll get around to testing the command line parameters and following the guide posted tomorrow as well just to test and see what happens.

Thanks for the reply, I'll update with my findings on those things tomorrow.

[bundangdon]

No worries! Hope that it works for you and let me know how it goes after you try that tutorial

[Squeeth]

5 hours ago, bundangdon said:

No worries! Hope that it works for you and let me know how it goes after you try that tutorial

Unfortunately there was no luck after double checking those things. Additionally I see on the 2nd response to that tutorial it says "Some iso's don't work in Xemu. For example from Redump."

I think if I can't get the batch extract to work I may just have to find another source for them that isn't Redump

[bundangdon]

41 minutes ago, Squeeth said:

Unfortunately there was no luck after double checking those things. Additionally I see on the 2nd response to that tutorial it says "Some iso's don't work in Xemu. For example from Redump."

I think if I can't get the batch extract to work I may just have to find another source for them that isn't Redump

Okay, sorry to hear that. I think that the xiso format may be more reliable/stable which is probably why the Xemu team decided to support them exclusively. It's a bit frustrating when you consider this along with the fact that CXBX only supports folders with .xbe files. However, I'm certainly thankful that Xbox emulation has come this far and am grateful for anything at all at this point. There are two tools that I've tried in the past which may help: C-Xbox Tool or XDVDMulleter. I'm not sure of their homepage-address but they can be easily found with Google

[Squeeth]

12 minutes ago, bundangdon said:

Okay, sorry to hear that. I think that the xiso format may be more reliable/stable which is probably why the Xemu team decided to support them exclusively. It's a bit frustrating when you consider this along with the fact that CXBX only supports folders with .xbe files. However, I'm certainly thankful that Xbox emulation has come this far and am grateful for anything at all at this point. There are two tools that I've tried in the past which may help: C-Xbox Tool or XDVDMulleter. I'm not sure of their homepage-address but they can be easily found with Google

I did try both of those, but they seemingly hiccup when I try to do any sort of batch processing. I think what's bugging me the most is I know I had it all working a few months ago before I rebuilt my library, and now it's not working and I can't figure out why lol

[darreldearth]

You'll probably have to convert them all to folder format  XISOs,  then to XISO.isos using these 2 batch codes from another post I started. It should work though. Just save each string of code in a text file and save it as .bat, and then run them when they're in the same folder as the games.....

 

Batch Code To convert Multiple XISO Folder Formatted games (games must be 1 word no spaces) to XISO.isos is:

FOR /D %%d in (*) DO extract-xiso -c %%d

and then Batch Code from Multiple ISO's or XISO.iso's back to XISO Folder Formatted Games is:

FOR %%f in (*.iso) DO extract-xiso "%%f"

[Squeeth]

On 3/5/2022 at 5:11 AM, darreldearth said:

You'll probably have to convert them all to folder format  XISOs,  then to XISO.isos using these 2 batch codes from another post I started. It should work though. Just save each string of code in a text file and save it as .bat, and then run them when they're in the same folder as the games.....

 

Batch Code To convert Multiple XISO Folder Formatted games (games must be 1 word no spaces) to XISO.isos is:

FOR /D %%d in (*) DO extract-xiso -c %%d

and then Batch Code from Multiple ISO's or XISO.iso's back to XISO Folder Formatted Games is:

FOR %%f in (*.iso) DO extract-xiso "%%f"

I ended up finding a source that was compressed folder format games, so I just finished extracting those and replacing all the spaces with dashes so it's all one word. Granted they're over 8 characters long total but that shouldn't be the cause of what I got now. I have the extract-xiso.c file in the root folder of all the folder format games, created the batch file using the first code you posted. It is throwing me an error saying "'extract-xiso' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

I'm wondering if the tool needs to be compiled/built or if the .c extention on the end of it needs to be removed and turned to a .bat?

Thanks in advance

[Squeeth]

I have screenshots attached that should help better explain the structure and placement. The first one shows the .bat file contents. The second shows the error when running the self-made .bat file. The third shows the extract-xiso.c file in the root folder of my Microsoft Xbox folder containing all the folder formatted games.

Thanks again in advance.

 

Edited March 14, 2022 by Squeeth

[Squeeth]

Okay, disregard my last two posts...I'm obviously a little challenged at using GitHub for this and just realized I didn't have the actual utility downloaded lol

Let me grab the .exe from the latest release and I'll report back.

[Squeeth]

SUCCESS! Once I got out of my "stupid me" bubble, the issue then came up for the vcruntime140.dll. Got an AIO package I found on github for all the proper runtime packages, installed, ran the .bat and it started extracting. Once the first successful extract was completed I did a test with Xemu and it does in fact work!

I'll consider this forum post issue closed, but will continue to monitor from time to time to help anyone else out if needed.

Thanks again for the help @darreldearth!

[icharsue]

Hi all.

Found a decent GUI tool called Repackinator for anyone else trying to make the batch process easier/quicker:

https://github.com/Team-Resurgent/Repackinator/releases/tag/v1.3.0

And a useful youtube video as a guide:

Hope this helps anyone who finds the bat file method abit overwhelming.