Are Rips still Rips nowadays ???

otiscrusher · Post by **otiscrusher** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:14 pm

Theres always a motivation for any question.

Post by **Smiling Spectre** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:04 pm

Actually, as I see it, there is no difference in cost of "full" and "rip" now, if you not pay per mb/gb. I think, most of downloaders don't sits on computer and wait for "this last mb of Oblivion". They simply start downloading and check it sometimes. So time not matter.

But qualify is matter. "Old" RIPs always have something missing, and I cannot check, if "new" RIP is full or not. For example, here, in Russia, there is Russian "rip" of Psychonauts. 2CDs. How? Most movies simply erased at all. Why I need this?

So if I can select between rip and full - I'll select full. Even if hacker will say "nothing ripped, only repack". I don't trust unknown hacker so much.

Post by **hurenBock** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:18 am

well lol im not from russia and i dont own russian warez too.....
but usually

the stuff written in the nfo`s right.........at least thats the expierence
i made with english rips

PS: oh i remember i once had a russian CS SOURCE version and i still remember that i got that syntax error everytime i tried to install.......

lol so i just removed those mysterious letters that should be russian ones i guess lol and it was working......

3dslUserLoad · Post by **3dslUserLoad** » Tue May 06, 2008 12:23 am

With a lot of assembler programming knowledge, a lot of patience and a lot of searching the internet for appropriate tools I am able to compress games like STOLEN from about 2GB to 200MB for archiving purposes without appreciable limititations - only by removing useless stuff like foreign language files, parasite installer and advertising stuff, decompiling container files and compressing sound files.
I think if a rip is proper made it can be valuable.

alexz721 · Post by **alexz721** » Thu May 29, 2008 12:15 am

Did anyone else make the rip-R.I.P. joke yet?

...Damn.

Hello everybody!

3dslUserLoad · Post by **3dslUserLoad** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:07 am

In my opinion a rip is a proof for the ripper that he is able to drop the final file size below a self determined limit.
Even if "nothing" is ripped, such Rips have essential flaws:

1) Sound

44kHz-soundfiles are often resampled to 22kHz and compressed to MP3 with very bad quality. This results in gurgling, stuttering or mickey mouse like playback. Also many different sound files are often simply duplicated by only few ones.

2) Graphics

Graphic files are often compressed to JPG. This results in loosing transparency information which lets graphics appear with strange disturbances or blocky artifacts.

3) Updates

Performing an update could be impossible because of the altered file content which may be verified by the update program.