• Registered: 2014-05-30
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on the lookout for a specific model that is good all around for dumping discs. currently my LG drive with a +6 offset isn't going to cut it, no IDE ports on motherboard so limited to SATA or USB only.

preferably a DVD Burner as I have to replace my drive, all 6 SATA ports are filled.

  • From: Sevilla - España
  • Registered: 2011-05-16
  • Posts: 1,006

For MegaCD/Saturn/TurboGrafx-CD/Neo Geo CD... dumping a drive which supports D8 command is needed yes or yes. Additionally with these drives truncated audio tracks due to the lack of overreading is a thing of the past and make possible the use of PerfectRip, DiscImageCreator and so on which ease so much the dumping of discs with audio tracks, without truncated audio tracks, ruined last sector of data tracks of no EDC PS1 discs with audio tracks...

Plextor PX-712SA, PX-716SA, PX-755SA and PX-760SA. Or any +30/+98 real Plextor drive converted into an external drive via an PATA/SATA to USB 2.0 adapter.

As very last resource, a drive which supports properly the audio trap disc method via the emergency hole to dump into scrambled form the discs, like an Optiarc AD-7240S.

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  • Registered: 2014-05-30
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thanks for suggestion
on top of those, any specific drives for PSX?

  • From: Sevilla - España
  • Registered: 2011-05-16
  • Posts: 1,006

Recent drives are somewhat trash for the enthusiasts of digital audio extraction, because recent drives lack near always of overreading into the lead-out, and sometimes of overreading into the first pregap.

Without taking into account real Plextor drives, my old GCE-8526B LG-Hitachi CD writer is just fine for PSX: reads finely without workarounds no longer allowed the last sector of data tracks of no EDC discs with audio tracks and can overread into the first pregap AND lead-out using EAC, so for any +2 PSX disc is just fine. A -647 disc which would lose potentially audio samples due to negative combined (-641 samples for a +2 discs)? Just rip the first audio audio track in a +667 drive and solved.

Tha main problem with current conventional drives is the lack of overreading into the lead-out (however, audio trap disc method acts as workaround to rescue the lost audio samples when supported). Tipically, conventional drives won't read into the lead-out at all, so the risk of losing audio samples (especially for +2 discs and +667 drives) does exist and you cannot match certain DB entries due to that.

Examples of entries you cannot match with a +667 drive:

http://redump.org/disc/6563/
http://redump.org/disc/30018/
http://redump.org/disc/18462/

http://redump.org/disc/3210/ And the discs which share the same last dummy track: http://redump.org/discs/quicksearch/9eb22530/

For discs without audio tracks... near every modern drive is fine.

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