• From: California USA
  • Registered: 2009-05-17
  • Posts: 219

I'm trying to dump an Action Replay cheat code disk [1 track on CD medium] for PS2 but it immediately comes back with read errors in ISOBuster. In Windows explorer, all the files drag off the CD without problem except one named 'BIG.DAT' (likely the file that contains the cheat codes).

I would think the disk was bad but it's not scratched and it works flawlessly in a PS2.  I suspect AR used some sort of non standard format to protect their codes from being copied off the disk. If that is the case, anyone have any ideas how to properly dump the disk?

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  • Registered: 2009-05-03
  • Posts: 344

I'm having the same problem with the God of War II Disc II and the Metal Gear Solid Vol. 1 DVD. So I'm interested in the response you get.

If we run into this problem how do we dump these games?

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2009-12-26
  • Posts: 61

yes, i'd run into similar problems with special discs...i had posted it here but didn't get an answer http://forum.redump.org/topic/5948/dump … ad-errors/

The problem for me was that these "build-in" read errors are giving different results with other drives (i think due to the error correction)

  • From: Hyrule
  • Registered: 2008-01-16
  • Posts: 1,440

Specialist, yours are DVD video so they are to by unlocked simply loading them with meadiaplayer or another video player, then close the program and dump it as always.

About those other PS2 CDs: first TOC and filled image size has nothing in common, by the way if CD is protected with a wrong TOC it could be dumped with the swap method you can find in many posts around. I cannot say anything more, I hope someone will give a better reply.

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  • Registered: 2009-05-03
  • Posts: 344

Thank you, that worked like a charm on the too disc's I was having an issue with :-)