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Somethin interesting about SC2 3DO iso...
« on: February 18, 2006, 10:30:38 am »
I was just screwin around and decided to hex edit my SC2 3DO cd iso and there is a phrase "i am a duck" that is repeated multiple times in the 'beginning' of the iso file.

don't know what it really means, but a few of my other 3DO iso's have it too, so it just doesnt pertain to SC2.
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Re: Somethin interesting about SC2 3DO iso...
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2006, 11:48:03 am »
It's not just in the beginning, it's everywhere in the ISO. The phrase "iamaduck" (no spaces, 8 bytes) seems to repeat at the end of each file (possibly losing the start so that it always starts on a multiple of 8 bytes) until the next multiple of 2 KB is reached. It looks like the Opera file system is using the phrase as padding.
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Re: Somethin interesting about SC2 3DO iso...
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2006, 11:41:37 pm »
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Re: Somethin interesting about SC2 3DO iso...
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2006, 09:14:30 am »
Quote from: Kohr-Ah Death on February 18, 2006, 11:41:37 pm
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Not really. If your file system is based on fixed-sized blocks (like most file systems), you'll have wasted space at the end of each file. Using an instantly recognisable string is a nice debugging aid when you're trying to debug the file system.
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