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Gallstaff - Mar 29, 2002

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		Gallstaff	Mar 29, 2002
		I'm downloading snatcher in bin/cue for sega cd and i want to know what i do with this .sfv file

		crystalmethod	Mar 29, 2002
		You don't have to do anything with it. If theres an error in the files you download you can get a program to check the sfv and it will determine the "authenticity" of a particular set of files. A program called quicksfv is the best...it's what I use anyways.

		Gallstaff	Mar 29, 2002
		but what does the sfv actually do?

		ExCyber	Mar 29, 2002
		The SFV file itself doesn't do anything. It contains a list of CRC32 values for a set of files. An SFV program runs the CRC32 algorithm on your copy of the files and makes sure they're the same (actually, this isn't guaranteed, but in practical terms a corrupt file is fairly unlikely to produce the same CRC32 value as the original). It's just a way to find out  if any of the files in a "set" are corrupt. If that's not enough info, go read this...

		Gallstaff	Mar 29, 2002
		ok. So when i'm converting my files to iso+mp3, i leave the sfv as it is?

		Dyne	Mar 29, 2002
		you can leave it in the directory or delete it. the game will still burn and play fine. its basically a way to make sure the game is okay and not corrupted before you start making coasters.

		Gallstaff	Mar 29, 2002
		ok well i have never downloaded a bin/cue beofre so tell me if what i'm about to say sounds right. I want to burn this game and i have a bunch of files that read snatcher.001 snatcher.002 etc all the way to snatcher.38 it says that the file type on all of them except the sfv is an 001, 002, 003 file etc corrosponding with the extension. So basically, what do i do now? Oh and these aren't rared and didn't come rared

		MasterAkumaMatata	Mar 29, 2002
		Actually, those are RAR files; they're just named differently. Snatcher.001 = Snatcher.rar Snatcher.002 = Snatcher.r00 Snatcher.003 = Snatcher.r01 Snatcher.004 = Snatcher.r02 and so on... All you need to do is open the first file "Snatcher.001" with WinRAR and Extract. You can open the Snatcher.001 file by dragging and dropping the it into a WinRar window, or you can double click on it and choose WinRar in the that little Open With window.

		Gallstaff	Mar 29, 2002
		and then they turn into bin/cue format?

		MasterAkumaMatata	Mar 29, 2002
		Extract and find out.

		Gallstaff	Mar 29, 2002
		ah crap, i tested it in gens and it freezes at a black screen after i select new game. What the ####?

		SegaSaturnDDR	Mar 29, 2002
		i suggest you try buying a sega cd.

		Gallstaff	Mar 29, 2002
		THat doesn't help. AKuma, do you know what i could do. I don't have to extract them all do i?

		MasterAkumaMatata	Mar 29, 2002
		I believe a real Sega CD can help you more than I can, Besides, I've never tried any of those Sega CD emulators before. If you got a BIN and CUE file after extracting, that should be all you need.

		Gallstaff	Mar 29, 2002
		I did but it freezes and it's annoying. It freezes right after the all charecters are fictional blah blah blah thing.

		Gallstaff	Mar 29, 2002
		wait i just had an idea. Would bin chunking them work?

		MasterAkumaMatata	Mar 29, 2002
		That's an . Give it a try.

		Gallstaff	Mar 29, 2002
		Don't know why i didn't think of this before. I'm such a maroon!

		Gallstaff	Mar 29, 2002
		ah crap i tried that and it still gets stuck where it traditionally gets stuck... in the turbo cycle. Is there any other program that will basicallly do the same thing as binchunker? I heard that binchunker puts pregaps in between so maybe that's it.

		Dyne	Mar 29, 2002
		does that game work in Gens? some games arent 100%.

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