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I'll admit to being largely clueless when it comes to Mac software except for the utilities I typically use, but I'm planning on getting a Macbook in a couple months and was curious as to the options for software that lets you rip mountable ISO files available on OSX. Price isn't too much of a concern as long as it's not obscenely expensive; I'm mostly looking for something that's easy to use (my biggest concern) without too many troubles. I could always use parallels and Windows based ISO ripping software, which is easy enough to find, but I'd prefer something native to OSX for this kind of thing if it exists.

OS X comes with a utility that lets you rip ISOs. It's called Disk Utility, and you can find it in Finder -> Go -> Utilities.

Vain wrote:OS X comes with a utility that lets you rip ISOs. It's called Disk Utility, and you can find it in Finder -> Go -> Utilities.

Does it rip ISOs for software and DVDs, just DVDs, etc? If it'll do both then that's one less headache for me to worry about.

I haven't tested it extensively with commercial DVD movies. It handles DVD movies without copy protection just fine.

There is a commercial application 'Toast' that is widely spoken of, but I've never bothered with anything beyond Disk Utility or simply using 'dd' from the command line.

Vain wrote:I haven't tested it extensively with commercial DVD movies. It handles DVD movies without copy protection just fine.

There is a commercial application 'Toast' that is widely spoken of, but I've never bothered with anything beyond Disk Utility or simply using 'dd' from the command line.

Well, it's less DVD movies than software I'm concerned with. Since I'll need it to rip a few region-encoded game discs.

Dunno. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work, assuming the machine can read the disk at all. So what if it doesn't? If you're going to buy a mac anyway, this comes free with your machine. Try it, and if it doesn't work, drop $80 bucks on Toast, since you said you didn't care about price. I'm sure Disk Utility will do what you need.

Region-encoded game disks? You mean console games? They still have a regular filestructure so they'll rip, but they won't be playable without chipping anyway.

Stark wrote:Region-encoded game disks? You mean console games? They still have a regular filestructure so they'll rip, but they won't be playable without chipping anyway.

PC games actually. Region locked Japanese game, but I figure I could work around the lock by ripping it and mounting via virtual drives without having to change the dvd drive's region, thanks to that having a limit on how many times you can switch.

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How do you even region-lock a data disk? I assign an almost zero percent chance this will pose any problem at all for diskutil, and almost believe you're making it up.

region locked data

game with region code

*head explodes*

Bleh, okay, looks like I jumped the gun on the region locking bit and didn't read its specs carefully enough. But at least it doesn't seem like I'll have trouble ripping it.

Actually I'm curious; Widnows has that silly 'applocale' thing to work in different 'regions' (since some games check language or location settings). Does OSX even implement this kind of granularity and how is it got around?