The CCI lie and a rant on the future of backups

I have tried countless, COUNTLESS games in CCI format and I have yet to find any good reason to use them. Imagine terrible performance, stutters, video playback errors, and even some games straight up not even working right.

Mechassult? Bad audio on menu Wwe raw 2? bad FMV skipping Half Life 2? 10 minute load times even on UDMA6 Tony Hawks American Wasteland? Graphical errors all over menus Blinx? FMVs load incorrectly giving bad audio sync

I have had over 20 games needed to be reverted to their normal full disc rip to even get them working again. The fact that the future of xbox recovery is full of these CCI images which might I add are COMPLETELY ruining these games will soon dominate the image backups we have on the internet. CCIs are compressed games, and the xbox cant unpack them fast enough even though some games do work-- most dont.

Honestly, if you come in here and proclaim you didnt have a problem you can be rest assured my hashes match your exact images and I can replicate the problems on numerous systems.

Also, as a side note-- Tony Hawk Project 8s iso dump that has been online for years is bad and has numerous errors you can even replicate in xemu. Loading screens are filled with static.

Posted Oct 6, 2025, 7:07 PM UTC

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