Is this normal and safe?

[OMGITSAMACGAMER]

I just downloaded The legend of zelda wind waker and twilight princess from <content removed>  and they were both 1.46gb after being unzipped with 7-zip. Im just wondering if this size looks fine and if the website looks fine aswell. Im pretty sure the websites fine, but searching the game's sizes on google says they're 1.13gb on the gamecube so i don't know why it's bigger. Should i care, should it be a problem?

BTW, i'm using dolphin 5.0 emulator and both games run fine at the start (that's as far as i've gotten)

 

Thanks for any help

Edited February 12, 2019 by SansVarnic
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[Spotty]

Why do people pirate games and then expect support for it?

Maybe it's the game... Maybe it's a virus that will send all your personal information to Russia and delete your files... Who knows?

[Tylerebowers]

scan it with virus total ( its a website)

 

 

 

[mariushm]

A disk image (or rom) can contain more data than actual file contents.

The 1.13 GB may refer to the sum of all file sizes, but the image itself may contain additional data (like the list of files, information where each file is located in the disk image). and other things. Often a disk/rom image can contain a lot of empty space, when the image is a 1:1 copy of something - for example a game may be 25 MB in a 32 MB cartridge, so you get a  32 MB image with the last 5 MB or so of empty/blank characters

 

Either way, the emulator will take it or not, it's not like it can infect your computer, since it's different architecture, different everything, the contents is read by the emulator and you get stuff on the screen or you don't get anything.

If the image is corrupted/broken at some point, the emulator will probably crash.

[OMGITSAMACGAMER]

18 minutes ago, mariushm said:

A disk image (or rom) can contain more data than actual file contents.

The 1.13 GB may refer to the sum of all file sizes, but the image itself may contain additional data (like the list of files, information where each file is located in the disk image). and other things. Often a disk/rom image can contain a lot of empty space, when the image is a 1:1 copy of something - for example a game may be 25 MB in a 32 MB cartridge, so you get a  32 MB image with the last 5 MB or so of empty/blank characters

 

Either way, the emulator will take it or not, it's not like it can infect your computer, since it's different architecture, different everything, the contents is read by the emulator and you get stuff on the screen or you don't get anything.

If the image is corrupted/broken at some point, the emulator will probably crash.

Ok thx, so i'd used that site that "Tylerebowers" suggested and vimms lair showed up safe. So i'll take your answer and i guess that it's really fine. THX

Edited February 12, 2019 by SansVarnic

[mariushm]

VirusTotal only scans the code on the website, to make sure there's no Javascript or custom code that would infect your computer.

It doesn't scan individual files and downloads on the website.

 

Basically, I could make a website and put links on the main page to viruses you could download and infect yourself and VirusTotal would say the website is safe, because the actual code on the page does not infect you, it does not contain viruses - it only links to something that may be or may not be a virus, but VirusTotal doesn't check that.

 

To check if the file is infected, you would have to actually upload the file to VirusTotal and it probably refuse to handle it because of its large size.

 

Also, it would probably not scan the file directly anyway, because it's not an executable file.

 

For example, someone with bad intentions could look at the game files inside the disk image, and let's say it finds a file (like a level, or a map or something) that works like an archive, containing several things, and each of those things is  compressed in some way (for example a level file could contain the map, the songs running in background, sound effects and other things, so the level file would be like a zip file).

Well, that someone could take a virus, figure out how to compress it the way the game expects it, and then replace a chunk of that file with the virus.

 

When the emulator runs the game, the game will read the big file from the image, decompress the chunk with the virus and there the virus could do some bad things and make the emulator crash and continue to infect your computer after that crash.

 

VirusTotal or an antivirus would not find the virus when it scans the file, because it's compressed in that game specific way, to the antivirus it's just a bunch of characters.

The game has to decompress that bunch of characters into something and then the emulator actually does things based on the instructions in those characters.

 

 

[SansVarnic]

-= Locked =-

 

We cannot help you with pirated content. 

I have removed the link to where you got it from as well.