What the hell is this file extension!?

mrvtec · Post by **mrvtec** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:29 am

Ok, I downloaded this game, Need For Speed Carbon. And was splited so i joined it using HJ Split. And thought i could burn it onto a DVD and play it happly after. But in the instruction that came with the download, it said burn ISO to a DVD. WTF!! How could i when the file's not an image file?? Or is it some other wierd issue, coz i have totally no idea what to do now. Any body?
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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:01 am

When I click on the image I get a bunch of this:

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mrvtec · Post by **mrvtec** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:22 pm

Reaper wrote: When I click on the image I get a bunch of this:

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I'm pretty sure i've uploaded it correctly, i'll upload it agian and this time it will be in PNG format. If it doesn't work, well all the picture shows is the properties dialog box of the file i'm having trouble with. And in that dialog box, where it says " Type of file:... " it's ment to indicate something like.....Type if file: ISO. But instead it indicates it's a " File " in detailed, as indicated in the dialog box Type of file: File. I never knew " File " can be picked up as an ISO???!!!

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:59 pm

I still get the same. Sorry, can't help with this.

Also, you know you posted this in the Jokes forum?

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manadren · Post by **manadren** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:06 pm

yeah, this should've been posted in the "Anything Computers" forum, but oh well. And the problem with the image is Red's fault, not mrvtec's. If you save the link as a png file, it will work fine.

First off may I say this is not a warez forum and nor do we condone piracy. And it kinda annoys me when people come around whining for help when the pirated game they downloaded doesn't work. Not to say I've never pirated anything, but when I did I did my own research when I ran into problems.

I would help if I could see the full file name (or is that the full filename) so I could take a gander at the extension I might be able to say more.

Secondly the .001-.085 files are likely not just split but split compressed archive files, most likely RAR archives, so you would likely open it with WinRAR, 7zip or something similar, and extract the cddvd image files using that instead of just joining files willy-nilly with HJ Split.

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mrvtec · Post by **mrvtec** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:17 am

Sorry dudes, i didn't know. Coz i'm new and it said Jokes Forum Games...... so i thought it's for games as well. Any way, i'll have to probably download another one that's not in some wierd format.

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:16 am

Or just buy a legit copy and not have to go through all the fuss or risk of getting a virus.

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:51 am

That is an option also.

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flowergirlajg · Post by **flowergirlajg** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:42 pm

mrvtec wrote:
Reaper wrote: When I click on the image I get a bunch of this:

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I'm pretty sure i've uploaded it correctly, i'll upload it agian and this time it will be in PNG format. If it doesn't work, well all the picture shows is the properties dialog box of the file i'm having trouble with. And in that dialog box, where it says " Type of file:... " it's ment to indicate something like.....Type if file: ISO. But instead it indicates it's a " File " in detailed, as indicated in the dialog box Type of file: File. I never knew " File " can be picked up as an ISO???!!!
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it worked 4 me!

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:19 pm

flowergirlajg wrote: it worked 4 me!

Yes, because your browser is violating standards.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.html#sec7.2.1 wrote: If and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the resource. If the media type remains unknown, the recipient SHOULD treat it as type "application/octet-stream".

That attachment has the media type of “text/html”, meaning that user agents must process it as HTML, even if it’s actually a PNG image.

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flowergirlajg · Post by **flowergirlajg** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:13 am

U r so friggin smart!!

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michaelk1993adg · Post by **michaelk1993adg** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:22 am

what do you mean violating standards its no allowed

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michaelk1993adg · Post by **michaelk1993adg** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:23 am

hes too smarty hes one of the imposters get him.

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scherzo · Post by **scherzo** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:03 am

manadren wrote: yeah, this should've been posted in the "Anything Computers" forum, but oh well. And the problem with the image is Red's fault, not mrvtec's. If you save the link as a png file, it will work fine.

First off may I say this is not a warez forum and nor do we condone piracy. And it kinda annoys me when people come around whining for help when the pirated game they downloaded doesn't work. Not to say I've never pirated anything, but when I did I did my own research when I ran into problems.

I would help if I could see the full file name (or is that the full filename) so I could take a gander at the extension I might be able to say more.

Secondly the .001-.085 files are likely not just split but split compressed archive files, most likely RAR archives, so you would likely open it with WinRAR, 7zip or something similar, and extract the cddvd image files using that instead of just joining files willy-nilly with HJ Split.

right looks like its archived, self extracting. open any of the files and inside will be another file, that file will be the ISO. after you can mount with daemon or burn, sometimes after mounting the image you will find a 'crack' folder or the serial is in the .nfo

most cases winrar is what does the trick. from the looks of it you have another program assosiated to 'zipped or rar' files

hope you put up your peer guardian when you downloaded this

winrar here http://www.rarlab.com/

peer guardian here http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

daemon tools here http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/announcements.php

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