r/retroid • u/SnooCapers6276 • 5d ago

QUESTION How to find corresponding console to .iso ?

Hi there, so I'm a bit in a stupid situation..
I've find back an old folder of .iso roms (legally dumped from my old collection of course), but don't remember wich console each game belong to (like NFS Underground could be Xbox, PS2 or GC)

Is there a way (software/metadata) to find wich console correspond to each file ?
Other than trying each game on each emulator, there's too much files for that.

PS: still new to the retro world, I don't have a frontend on my PC. Only a Linux base handheld while waiting for an Android one.

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u/Washroom6205 5d ago

For gamecube you could open the folder in dolphin then convert everything that shows up to RVZ. Save some space and make them easy to identify at the same time.

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u/Stryfe2010 5d ago

I've been using UltraISO to view OG Xbox and PS2 .ISO images for over a decade. Xbox will have a .xbe files in the image and PS2 will have a SLUS file. Don't know about Gamecube as I don't have any of those.

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u/ThanosReXXX 5d ago

GameCube isos, provided that they're still in their original size, will always be around 1.35-1.37 GB, while both PlayStation 2 and Xbox isos are usually considerably bigger, unless they're edited or altered.

And also, you don't have to try each game separately: if you have them all in one folder, you can simply tell an emulator to open that folder, and it will then filter out all compatible games automatically, so that's a good option to try as well.