{"id":26,"date":"2014-03-17T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/2014\/03\/17\/gdrom-explorer-v1-6-not-dead-yet\/"},"modified":"2020-04-18T13:16:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T11:16:22","slug":"gdrom-explorer-v1-6-not-dead-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/2014\/03\/17\/gdrom-explorer-v1-6-not-dead-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"GDROM Explorer v1.6: not dead yet!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After almost a year, yeah I agree, it is legit to think so&#8230; To be honest, this version comes with a lot a new stuff. I wanted to slightly transform this tool into something you would like to use. So in this new version you can get many details about the IP.BIN: list of internal libraries and flags used, MR images inside, track list from the TOC, etc. I tried to focus on the user experience and ease users&#8217; wills by supporting the Drag&#8217;n Drop for extracting files. Yeah, wasn&#8217;t that simple! .Net is a nice framework but coolest UI stuff we want are mostly only available in native code&#8230; and I did not really want to make this program a compilation of hack!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Added: a nice IP.BIN viewer (game settings, images, libraries and a lot more).<\/li><li>Added: Primary Volume Descriptor viewer.<\/li><li>Added: MR image conversion and extraction.<\/li><li>Added: File extraction via Drag&#8217;n Drop operation.<\/li><li>Added: Status bar to show the program last event.<\/li><li>Added: Padus DiscJuggler image (.CDI) support.<\/li><li>Added: Disc track extraction.<\/li><li>Added: Settings menu for mostly the file associations.<\/li><li>Added: Auto-load NAOMI DES key.<\/li><li>Fixed: IP.BIN parsing errors.<\/li><li>Fixed: Progress bar flickering.<\/li><li>Fixed: Support data\/data images.<\/li><li>Fixed: Memory leakages.<\/li><li>Fixed: Typos here and there.<\/li><li>Improved: UI colors, remove and add some icons.<\/li><li>Improved: Try reading image even if IP.BIN missing.<\/li><li>Improved: Error handling for non-compliant images.<\/li><li>Improved: Explicit error messages upon IP.BIN parsing errors.<\/li><li>Improved: Code robustness.<\/li><li>Testing: Add unit tests for IP.BIN parsing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, here is what you are looking for (or not!): <s>GDROM Explorer v1.6<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ic.pics.livejournal.com\/japanese_cake\/21723562\/1552\/1552_original.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5451.png?resize=380%2C267&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-170\" width=\"380\" height=\"267\" title=\"gdrom-explorer-16-ip-1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5451.png?w=760&amp;ssl=1 760w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5451.png?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5452.png?resize=380%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169\" width=\"380\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5452.png?w=760&amp;ssl=1 760w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5452.png?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5453.png?resize=445%2C193&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-173\" width=\"445\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5453.png?w=890&amp;ssl=1 890w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5453.png?resize=300%2C130&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5453.png?resize=768%2C333&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 1.4em;\">Update<\/span><\/b>: Now the version 1.6.1 is out, bug fixed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fixed: \u00a8No valid file-system found&#8221; error.<\/li><li>Fixed: Some Naomi images are detected as Dreamcast images.<\/li><li>Fixed: Weird behaviour when clicking on &#8216;+&#8217; and &#8216;-&#8216; in the tree.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Download link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/download\/4rvgwjflwj6ecdi\/jc-gdrom-explorer-v1.6.1.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GDROM Explorer v1.6.1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After almost a year, yeah I agree, it is legit to think so&#8230; To be honest, this version comes with a lot a new stuff. I wanted to slightly transform this tool into something you would like to use. So in this new version you can get many details about the IP.BIN: list of internal&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/2014\/03\/17\/gdrom-explorer-v1-6-not-dead-yet\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GDROM Explorer v1.6: not dead yet!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,53],"tags":[5,23,17],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-pc-apps","tag-dreamcast","tag-gdrom-explorer","tag-naomi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}