DiskSpan GUI

[KaktoR]

I think there is no need.

You have the !GameDir! constant which you can use for tasks.

[Razer-785]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

I think there is no need.

You have the !GameDir! constant which you can use for tasks.

How can i use that in a batch file?

[KaktoR]

Depends on what you want to do within game folder

[Razer-785]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Depends on what you want to do within game folder

I want to run RapidCRC to make file hash's of the files inside the folder of the game before the compression and i want to make file checksums of the "BINS" after compression because XHashEx is to slow.

[KaktoR]

Does rapidcrc have a command line? If not then it's not possible. Not because of DSG, but because of rapidcrc.

Edit: It has a command line, but I just figured out for hash checking, not for create hash files.

rapidcrc.exe "test.md5"

So it is useless in your case if it can't make hash files.

[Razer-785]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

Does rapidcrc have a command line? If not then it's not possible. Not because of DSG, but because of rapidcrc.

Edit: It has a command line, but I just figured out for hash checking, not for create hash files.

rapidcrc.exe "test.md5"

So it is useless in your case if it can't make hash files.

Never mind i fixed it thanks KaktoR

[Cesar82]

Originally Posted by Razer-785

Never mind i fixed it thanks KaktoR

Try use rhash.

[GybEMHPj4XAp3Cu]

I have inno setup 6.7.3 and none of the scripts are compiling lmao
I tried with CODEX Installer Script , I didn't edit the script and it's not compiling?

File:C:\Users\PC\Desktop\Codex (Remake)(final)\Include\DSG\DSG_Module.iss
line 887:
Column 42:
Invalid number of parameters.

[Cesar82]

Originally Posted by GybEMHPj4XAp3Cu

I have inno setup 6.7.3 and none of the scripts are compiling lmao
I tried with CODEX Installer Script , I didn't edit the script and it's not compiling?

File:C:\Users\PC\Desktop\Codex (Remake)(final)\Include\DSG\DSG_Module.iss
line 887:
Column 42:
Invalid number of parameters.

The latest versions of Inno Setup now use parameters in the "CreateCustomForm" function.
Therefore, please use Inno Setup v6.60 or an older version until the CODEX remake installer script is updated (I recommend Inno Setup 6.05 repacked).
The new DSG modules are compatible with the latest versions of Inno Setup, but the CODEX remake script will require adjustments to utilize this new module.

[GybEMHPj4XAp3Cu]

I need some help. Let's say I have the original game in ISO format from CODEX. I install the game in a folder on my desktop(example :Outlast 2) and now I have all the game files. Then I update those files so the game is fully up to date. After that, I repack everything using DiskSpan GUI, compile an installer with Autoruns.ini, and create a new ISO with DiskSpan GUI. Would that work, or not? Because I feel like i'm missing something.

[KaktoR]

That's how it works.

You can even use Diskspan_GUI.exe to extract the files if you don't want an installer.

[Cesar82]

Updated compatible installers Black Box Script (BBS) and CODEX Installer Script (CIS) on post #3

[wareck]

hello
I changed these lines in DSG_Methods.ini for addex :

[OrderRules.CATEGORY]
...
IndexOf=ADDEX; RuleTo: Level=1;

this makes addex run before final compressor

[Registered55]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to create a hands-off, batch-mode workflow for a significant collection of PS3 ISOs. While I discovered the CHD format years ago, I've only recently fallen down the rabbit hole of modern advanced compression methods. Over the last week, I’ve been developing a PowerShell v7 script designed to scan a directory, intelligently group/move similar multi-region ISOs into their own folders (e.g., Bejeweled 3 [BLES01601] [BLUS30865]), and process them. I quickly found that tools like SREP are remarkably effective here due to the highly repeated assets found in multi-language regional releases.

However, despite my script coming along nicely, I hit a massive wall. No matter what profile or options I tried in Mini Compressor, I could never get a clean, error-free extraction of the PS3 ISO Afrika (BLUS30399). After testing almost every profile (including mxx) on a clean installation, the extraction failures were always predictable rather than random—breaking at specific offsets depending on the settings. It became clear that Mini Compressor just doesn't agree with that specific image format.

Fortunately, after searching the forum, I discovered DiskSpan 2, and every profile I've tested on it works completely out of the box with zero extraction errors.

The New Dilemma: Batch Processing & Cryptic CLI Commands
Now I’m facing a structural hurdle. As great as DiskSpan 2's GUI is, it is built around a single-task-at-a-time workflow, and I can't find a native batch-processing mode.

Because my end goal is to automate this entirely through my PowerShell script, I've been trying to inspect the underlying commands. However, snippets like these are proving quite cryptic to decipher:

commands that i have found from my investigation for example "

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" /C ""C:\Diskpan2\Resources\Win32\Arc.exe" create -ep1 -r -s; -w"C:\Diskpan2\Resources\Win32\TEMP" -m"3" -dp"C:\Diskpan2\Resources\Win32\TEMP\is-H93M2" "E:\Diskpan2\Setup.dll""

and

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" /C "(@echo off)&((if exist "C:\Diskpan2\Resources\Win32\OTHERS\SREP\srep. exe" del /F /S /Q "C:\Diskpan2\Resources\Win32\OTHERS\SREP\srep. exe" >nul))"

Could anyone kindly give me some insights or point me in the right direction on how best to approach automating DiskSpan 2's underlying engine (or FreeArc/external toolchains) to achieve a seamless, automated batch loop for subfolders? Any advice on mapping these command structures or utilizing headless execution would be hugely appreciated!

[KaktoR]

If you only want to use srep without anything else, I suggest to use ADDeX instead.
Batch cmd could be as follow

To encode the file you can use this (check out other options aswell)

ADDeX.exe -m1 "input.iso" "input.output"

To decode the file to it's original state you can use this

ADDeX.exe -d "input.output" "input.original"

This way you only need the tool itself without any other files, installers and such.

Edit:
Example Windows 11 ISO

ADDeX.exe -m1 "Win.11.AiO.28000.1719.iso" "Win.11.AiO.28000.1719.output"

ADDeX -m1 done: 100%  matches=28518
Compressed -m1 7737972736 -> 6191517568 (80%) in 80,99 s
Estimated peak decompression RAM: 852 MB

ADDeX.exe -d "Win.11.AiO.28000.1719.output" "Win.11.AiO.28000.1719.original"