With some recent progress on the Jag emu scene I wanted to try some of the Jag games I ahve on my PC - unfort they are in .Jag format. Anyone have a util that can strip the header off these and turn them into .BIN files?
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.Jag -> .Bin converter
Started by Goochman, Jun 23 2011 2:19 PM
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Posted Thu Jun 23, 2011 2:48 PM
Why on earth would you want to strip out the only information that would tell an emu where to load and run the thing?
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Posted Thu Jun 23, 2011 2:54 PM
Goochman, on Thu Jun 23, 2011 2:19 PM, said:
With some recent progress on the Jag emu scene I wanted to try some of the Jag games I ahve on my PC - unfort they are in .Jag format. Anyone have a util that can strip the header off these and turn them into .BIN files?
There's a few different file types disguised by the '.JAG' extension, I think some ROM collections have all files renamed to that or maybe someone just decided it'd be a great way to confuse people as they could be pretty much anything
Maybe your best bet is to experiment with some renaming of files or see if JiFFI can detect some of them for you and give you a hint as to what they really should be. Or possibly name a few of the titles here & see if anyone wants to volunteer some infos as to how you might get somewhere with them.
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Posted Thu Jun 23, 2011 3:21 PM
The new version of VJ will do header detection, so this should be a non-issue, at least with Virtual Jaguar. 
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Posted Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:03 AM
Shamus, on Thu Jun 23, 2011 2:48 PM, said:
Why on earth would you want to strip out the only information that would tell an emu where to load and run the thing?
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Jagulator doesnt run .Jag files
Anyhow - Ill try a few and see if they work or not - not a big issue since I use my Jag and carts but would be fun to test this out on my home PC.
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Posted Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:56 AM
Chances are then that they aren't even .jag files, especially if they came from a source that used Cowering's renaming tool.
Explanation here: http://icculus.org/v...extensions.html
Explanation here: http://icculus.org/v...extensions.html
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Posted Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:32 AM
Yea, let JiFFI try to spot what your mystery .JAG files are or do some trial & error if you've got lots of free time to burn - Jagulator works fine with ROMs that have been renamed to .JAG as long as they are loaded as a ROM.
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Posted Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:14 AM
Thanks - will take a look when I get some free time.
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