http://redump.org/disc/59818/

Am I to understand that the other dumper just didn't submit a cuesheet along with the track hashes?  Is it that simple?

Here's the full dump of the disc, along with the scans: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold … xlqm4XrI0b

Now, since I have ONLY one data track at the end, it falls under the first version that I need to dump, therefore need to follow ringed disc dumping guide. (http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=Copy-X)
However, I only saw rings after BoS gave me a warning to check for rings, so I dumped this disc like a general CD, not ringed disc (I don't have access to the hardware to dump ringed disc anyways). The thing is that I got a match from the database: http://redump.org/disc/51889... WHAT??
Is this disc counted as ringed disc? Is the original dump invalid? Do I still need to complete the dump with SOHD-167T or DDU1613?

令和版 Oh!X / Reiwa-ban Oh!X
https://www.sbcr.jp/product/4815622886/

I could have been gave the disc to my friend in the meanwhile, trusting the submission process. I could have sold the disc, which probably has no way back to me. It is impossible for me to memorize every bit of the ringcode. Other informations, such as disc and serial number, are very easy to add to the !submissionInfo.txt by just copying from the Redump page (also, risk of adding false information is always available), but not every information can be added without the original disc.

I recommend to integrate Anubis, which blocks bot scrapers [as well?]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis - considering this website is getting nearly 2k guests (bots) every day, it would be a huge traffic profit. And if the root cause of the outage is not DDoS, which is very unlikely to me, please at least determine and try solve it.

I'm working on a tool to help me automate organizing my games collection (including renaming) and the dump datasets I'm able to download are helpful, but I have two requests...

I see that there is data for some games with non-English titles (e.g., http://redump.org/disc/29106/), and I would like my games to be sorted based on the title of the game in the game's region.

But the dat files I've been able to download seems like there's no option to include that text in the files.  Am I missing the required field? Or is this something we could get added to the dat files?

ImgBurn says:

Ring text:

http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title= … rDisc_List

However, I don't know what is required to dump this disc.  I'm not sure what type of drive to get.  I have a modern tower computer that doesn't have a CD drive bay.

My USB mini Blu-ray drive--one that is not listed in the guide--can't even read the disc.  My American DTL-H50001 debug PS2 boots it fine, though.

Alternatively to finding a way to dump it myself, I'm willing to send this to someone in either North America or Europe to get dumped.  I'd prefer North America because I live in California.  (Yes, this is a very rare disc to see in the U.S.)

disc TOC:
  track 1 {  data, pre-emphasis }
    index 01 { LBA:      0, MSF: 00:02:00 }
  track A {  data, pre-emphasis }
    index 01 { LBA:   5826, MSF: 01:19:51 }

[LBA:    321] C2 error (bits: 1752)
[LBA:    322] C2 error (bits:   96)
[LBA:   5815] C2 error (bits: 1728)
[LBA:   5816] C2 error (bits:   96)
[LBA:   5825] C2 error (bits: 1704)
[LBA:   5826] C2 error (bits:  168)

disc TOC:
  track 1 {  data, pre-emphasis }
    index 01 { LBA:      0, MSF: 00:02:00 }
  track A {  data, pre-emphasis }
    index 01 { LBA: 311362, MSF: 69:13:37 }
[LBA:    321] C2 error (bits: 1560)
[LBA:    322] C2 error (bits:  480)
[LBA: 311332] C2 error (bits: 1560)
[LBA: 311333] C2 error (bits:  480)
[LBA: 311361] C2 error (bits: 1704)
[LBA: 311362] C2 error (bits:  504)

disc TOC:
  track 1 {  data, pre-emphasis }
    index 01 { LBA:      0, MSF: 00:02:00 }
  track A {  data, pre-emphasis }
    index 01 { LBA:  64962, MSF: 14:28:12 }

[LBA:    321] C2 error (bits: 1752)
[LBA:    322] C2 error (bits:  384)
[LBA:  64935] C2 error (bits: 1752)
[LBA:  64936] C2 error (bits:  384)
[LBA:  64961] C2 error (bits: 1656)
[LBA:  64962] C2 error (bits:  384)

disc TOC:
  track 1 {  data, pre-emphasis }
    index 01 { LBA:      0, MSF: 00:02:00 }
  track A {  data, pre-emphasis }
    index 01 { LBA:  26370, MSF: 05:53:45 }
[LBA:    321] C2 error (bits: 1776)
[LBA:    322] C2 error (bits:  120)
[LBA:  26288] C2 error (bits: 1680)
[LBA:  26289] C2 error (bits:  120)
[LBA:  26353] C2 error (bits: 1776)
[LBA:  26354] C2 error (bits:  120)
[LBA:  26369] C2 error (bits: 1776)
[LBA:  26370] C2 error (bits:  120)

disc TOC:
  track 1 {  data, pre-emphasis }
    index 01 { LBA:      0, MSF: 00:02:00 }
  track A {  data, pre-emphasis }
    index 01 { LBA:  53538, MSF: 11:55:63 }

[LBA:    321] C2 error (bits: 1776)
[LBA:    322] C2 error (bits:  624)
[LBA:  53517] C2 error (bits:  404)
[LBA:  53518] C2 error (bits: 2052)
[LBA:  53537] C2 error (bits: 1776)
[LBA:  53538] C2 error (bits:  120)

So far I have seen the pattern on 5 game discs from 3 different doujin groups. Given the regularity of the pattern, I think it has to be some kind of mastering issue rather than damage. The affected blocks are not used by any files, so I can easily copy the files off the disc in e.g. Windows Explorer. The games are playable from the copied files so it doesn't seem to be copy protection either. (I have never seen a doujin release with disc-based copy-protection.)

The affected discs seem to have other characteristics in common as well:

• UDF filesystem

• Mode 2

• Pre-emphasis flag set

• Other sectors with invalid mode adjoining the sectors with C2 errors

Has anyone else encountered this? I wonder if these discs can be considered eligible for Redump submission, for example using --force-split to replace the affected sectors with 0x55, if I can provide two sets of matching logs?

Example logs:
http://interbutt.com/misc/Aurorablast3_logs_Plextor.zip
http://interbutt.com/misc/Aurorablast3_ … iDrive.zip

I'm interested in helping out as I've got an assortment of optical games media in my collection, with a high percentage of that being PC video game related.

First question is that I need to get a suitable drive that works for the project, I have found the wiki page about supported drives and found that I could buy a Plextor 755A DVD/CD-RW drive, and then update the firmware to the one there. Is there anything else I need to know about this, I see that this drive uses an IDE interface - would using a USB to IDE converter work, or am I better using a PCI card with an IDE header on it / older motherboard which has an IDE interface present.

Second question, disc condition. I buy many of my optical media secondhand, often in large bundles/lots. This means not all discs are in "perfect" condition, if you're going by music grading standards some of them might be considered "Good"/"Good plus" where there is significant visible wear (scratches, scuffs) but the discs still can be read. Considering the need for specific hardware, are we also expected to provide dumps from "clean" media and would the software easily identify if there was a read error.

Thanks in advance

A lot has happened in the past 6 or 7 years my mum died then I had to look after my dad then he died , and electricity prices went through the roof so I decided I didn't want to dump anymore.

I still have most of my games I dumped and want to know if anyone wants to buy any of my discs before I die . I want my games to go to a good home, its not the money I'm after I have plenty of that its just I wanted to give my old mates the opportunity to buy any of my dumps.

Leave your comments here and I promise to check back in the following days or weeks.

I have a lot of jap dreamcast, and pal, and a few usa, I have psp games and a load of umd movies, not to mention hundreds of xbox,  xbox 360, wii, ps2, ps3 which all have to go.

I would like to sell in bulk so hopefully those interested can grab some bargains and send my discs to a good home, a better home than cash convereerts or cex or even worse the skip.

I know paccy might still want some xbox games, I think the last time I went on this site was before covid and energy prices sky rocketed.

Anyway hope all my friends are well and good, leave a comment here if you are.

The BIOS datfiles downloadable on redump seem to use a different format to the usual XML datfiles.

I'm trying to write a parser for it and was wondering if that format has a name and where I can find more information about it.

I'm talking about the files that start with a header like this:

clrmamepro (
    name "Nintendo - GameCube - BIOS Images"
    description "Nintendo - GameCube - BIOS Images (16) (2021-09-18)"
    category Console
    version 2021-04-16
    author "ElBarto, Jackal, Extrems | redump.org"
)

Any links to documentation about this format is much appreciated.
Thanks!

As some of you may know, Tony and I have been working hard buying and dumping the remaining common PAL titles for Xbox 360 in order to verificate most of the non-regional european listed in the Wiki:

http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title= … mped_Discs

Thanks to the funds obtained from the fundrising promoted, as well as our own funds and the help of other users, we are really close to complete our "Wanted" list.

We were very specific about the titles we wanted so understand is impossible to clean the list at all. But, by the time we are finished, the essencial core of the Xbox 360 set will be correctly documented in Redump.org

This post is a call to all the recent european Xbox 360 dumpers i've seen posting verifications: We are struggling trying to reach a Ninja Gaiden 3 - Razor's Edge PAL copy (is common to the whole Europe/Australia and should match USA).

Is not super-expensive (about 40 euros) but we've invested a lot of money from our side (and we will use more to a batch of games coming from UK thanks to Billy). So if you guys can assist us with this one, would be awesome.

Thanks for the atention

BTW, I'm going to take the chance to advice the team again: The Xbox 360 PAL Missings Wiki would benefit a lot for a rebuild. While I deeply apreciate all the fixes added, this list needs a little twist to understand better which discs are being completely missed, which one are verifications needed, and which ones would be good to be verificated in order to confirm the regions.

Not easy task, but again, we are trying to erase all non-regional ones from it.