I could help translating English guides to German aswell.
What's far more annoying is that with the current dumping guide for CD-based games about a quarter of Mixed-Mode CDs which I tried the guide simply is not sufficient. As soon as things are getting complicated it's left to technically more versed members reviewing posted .sub files and telling results, but they don't tell much about the technical backgrounds so newbies could learn from it. Additionally EAC (at least on my PC) has been wrong several times when detecting the first audio track's pregap, regardless of what quality the used drive is. In my case it was unable to detect a pregap of 02.00 and instead showed 00.00 - just happened with a Plextor PX-716A and a disc with clean subchannel data in pregap.
Members who are strictly following the existing guide have no chance at all to detect these pregap oddities, logically won't write a word about it as for them everything is as normal as could be, and finally will post checksums for Track 1 and Track 2 binaries which simply are wrong, which then might be added to the database without any further review.
Currently Rocknroms is discussing with F1ReB4LL on this thread about the special case of mixed-mode pregaps. I've posted a first guide proposal for this case in this thread.
What I just wanted to say is that before translating existing guides to different languages so more people can contribute dumps, I first would want to see airtight new guides combined with additional new utilities making things more secure and easier - and then see those guides translated to other languages. The question is: Do we really want to cause a run of new members contributing more and more first-time dumps which might be bad due to current guides being imperfect?
That's how I do see things - but in general I would welcome translated guides, too.
