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Question - when you get the .MDS file and convert to BWA file, and then use BlindWrite - does BlindWrite automatically patch the file with TwinPeak 0.2?
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Answer - no and yes...how to explain...actually, it's much simpler than that!
First of all, Twinpeak is not a seperate program, it's a twin-sectors routine
built into the main Blindwrite program.
Blindwrite does NOT modify the BW image - for security reasons relating to the twinsectors method and detailed in the BWA .doc file provided by blindwrite. Basically, depending on the reader used to create the data/physical images, a patched file can in rare cases be corrupted by the twinpeaks method (ie. game data loss!!), obviously resulting in a coaster if the corrupt image is burned to CD.
When about to burn a BW image onto a CD-R(W), BW asks you if you want to include the physical media info contained in the BWA file (if it finds such a file with same name as the BW image & in same folder of cos'). If you answer 'yes', then it
combines the BW image and the data in the .BWA file when burning the CD.
So it comes down to EXACTLY the same thing as patching a CD image - then the BWA file is no longer needed - and burning the patched dump onto CD. The only difference is that as I said in the case of BW the image is left intact, CD data and CD physical info are kept in seperate files.
So U C, BW is quite simple - so simple in fact that one could use it blindfolded, hence its name
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