Questions about CDZ

[tekhnolyze]

I looked around but couldn't find anything on this. I had just a few questions about the .CDZ format.

1. Is this format exclusive to the pSX emu? I've never seen it used with other programs.

2. Is it stable? Like if I store all my disc images in cdz instead of their original format, do I stand a greater chance of them becoming corrupt than if I kept them in the original format?

3. is CDZ an actual compression format, or is it just a renamed ZIP or something?

4. Is there a way to do batch conversions to CDZ, rather than one by one?

thanks

[Truth Unknown]

1. For now yes.
2. I can't think of problems outside of file-name issues with the UI in pSX.
3. Not sure, but it compresses.
4. Not natively, maybe you can get cleaver with a batch file.