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Drag and drop ecm.exe on the extracted folder into the command window then press space bar then locate the ISO file you want to compress and then drag and drop the file into the same command window.A command window will appear, please see picture below.
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Now to compress an ISO file, press the Window Button in your computer together with the ‘R’ key or go to your Task Bar, click the Window Button and then type on Search Program and Files ‘run’ then type ‘cmd’ and hit enter.As you can see below, the folder comprises of two executable file (encircled on the picture) this two files use to compress and uncompress ISO files.Download ECM Tools and extract the file on a location in your computer.ecm file but for the sake of this tutorial I will use ECM Tools as I believe that this is the most practical and lightweight in terms of size. You have two options here on how to compress and uncompress.Click on the Download link and you will be directed to the download area.You can filter the result by selecting the section and what console does your Game ROM will run.Search for the name of the Game ROM that you want.Visit Emuparadise, this is my favourite site for Game ROMS where every ROMS that I want hosted here.Some of ROM hosting sites like Emuparadise uses this tool in order to deliver fast and efficient download for the ROM that they hosted. This technology is being use in packing ISO files for Game ROMS in order to lessen the size of the files then upload it on the server and to download with ease for others. ECM is as special compression technique that allows better compression on CD images to save space as well as bandwidth. Today I will show you how to compress or uncompress ISO file using the ECM Tools so that we can reduce the size of the file for archiving purposes. ISO files are one of image files we use to have an image copy of a disk, in other words it’s like an exact virtual copy of our disk so that we can still have a back up even if the actual disk worn out.