Cosmetic Disk Id - Revision history

Enigma at 18:18, 1 November 2022

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Enigma at 23:34, 28 March 2021

2021-03-28T23:34:30Z

Enigma: Created page with "This is no copy protection, but influences handling within an emulator when used in D64 format. When mounting a D64 in an emulator it uses the Id bytes read from the director..."

2021-03-28T23:33:43Z

Created page with "This is no copy protection, but influences handling within an emulator when used in D64 format. When mounting a D64 in an emulator it uses the Id bytes read from the director..."

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This is no copy protection, but influences handling within an emulator when used in D64 format.

When mounting a D64 in an emulator it uses the Id bytes read from the directory data as also for each sector header. The sector header data is not present in the D64 and the emulator adds that information itself.

Some games use a disk id in the directory that differs from the sector header ids. Typically the id bytes in the directory are changed to represent a nicer directory.
When such disk is converted to D64 the emulator uses the wrong ids for the sector headers and loading will fail.

==== Pages that refer to this protection ====

{{Special:Whatlinkshere/Cosmetic Disk Id}}

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 This is no copy protection, but influences handling within an emulator when used in D64 format.
-When mounting a D64 in an emulator it uses the Id bytes read from the directory data as also for each sector header. The sector header data is not present in the D64 and the emulator adds that information itself.
+When mounting a D64 in an emulator it uses the Id bytes read from the directory also for each sector header. The sector header data is not present in the D64 and the emulator generates that data itself.
-Some games use a disk id in the directory that differs from the sector header ids. Typically the id bytes in the directory are changed to represent a nicer directory.
+Some games use a disk id in the directory that is different from the sector header ids. Typically the id bytes in the directory are changed to represent a nicer directory.
 When such disk is converted to D64 the emulator uses the wrong ids for the sector headers and loading will fail.

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 Some games use a disk id in the directory that differs from the sector header ids. Typically the id bytes in the directory are changed to represent a nicer directory.
 When such disk is converted to D64 the emulator uses the wrong ids for the sector headers and loading will fail.
 ==== Pages that refer to this protection ====
 {{Special:Whatlinkshere/Cosmetic Disk Id}}