Is this normal and safe?
Is this normal and safe?
I just got The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker and Twilight Princess from <content removed> and both files were 1.46gb after unzipping with 7-zip. I'm checking if this size is normal and if the site appears okay. The website seems fine, but a quick search on Google shows the game sizes are around 1.13gb on a GameCube. Does this matter? Should I be concerned?
Also, I'm using Dolphin 5.0 emulator and both games are running without issues so far. Thanks for any advice!
People pirate games and then hope for support because they might believe it's the game itself or a threat that will force developers to act. There could also be concerns about viruses that compromise personal data, though the exact reasons remain unclear.
A disk image (or rom) might hold more information than just the actual file data. The 1.13 GB figure could represent the total of all file sizes, but the image itself may include extra details such as a directory list or metadata about where each file is stored on the disk. Often, a disk/rom image contains a significant amount of empty space, especially when it's a perfect copy—like a game that appears as 25 MB in a 32 MB cartridge, leaving only a few megabytes of unused space. Regardless, the emulator will process it, and it won't affect your computer since it runs on a different architecture; the contents are simply read and displayed correctly or not at all. If the image becomes corrupted during transfer, the emulator is likely to fail.
Thanks, so I used the site that "Tylerebowers" recommended and the Vimms Lair appeared secure. I'll go with your response and think it's really good. THX
VirusTotal only examines the website’s code to verify there are no JavaScript or custom scripts that could harm your computer. It doesn’t inspect individual files or downloads on the site. You could create a simple website with links to potential threats, and VirusTotal would label it safe since the actual content doesn’t infect, though it might flag something as possibly dangerous. To determine if a file is infected, you’d need to manually upload it to VirusTotal, which likely won’t accept large files. It probably wouldn’t scan the file directly either, as it isn’t an executable. Someone with malicious intent could examine disk images of game files, find compressed archives (like zip files), and embed a virus within them. The virus would then be placed inside a file that appears harmless, such as a level or map, which is compressed. When the emulator loads the game, it would decompress the file, inject the virus, and potentially cause crashes or further infections on your computer. VirusTotal or antivirus software wouldn’t detect the virus because the file is encoded in a way that looks like normal data to them.
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