551 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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sarami wrote:

Some reasons, VideoNow player may require 18032 zero bytes in the head of the 1st track, but it is obvious that "e1 e1 e1 01 e1 e1 e1 00" (black&white disc) is the head of the 1st track as the disc format.

Could you explain that? What offset should be used for the B&W discs, for the Color discs, for the Jr. discs, for the XP discs?

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552 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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/vn     Search specific bytes
For VideoNow
val     insert empty bytes in the head of the 1st track if value is set

What does that mean? It shouldn't insert bytes, it should be treated like a forced offset. /vn 18032 should be equal to /a -4508.

And 18032 should be the default value (if no value is set after "/vn").

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553 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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That converter is for the Dreamcast dumps only. For the other systems you need to use CDMage or to mount your image onto a virtual drive and dump it with any tool that supports splitting the tracks and correcting the offset.

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554 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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sarami wrote:
F1ReB4LL wrote:

Still doesn't work properly.

Uploaded test version. http://www.mediafire.com/file/eq80y20l9 … st.7z/file

Works in this version, hope it won't get broken again smile

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556 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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We only need your dumping logs, if you have any original discs and a will to dump them, we don't need any roms, nor sharing any.

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557 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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http://forum.redump.org/topic/23179/som … or-expert/

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558 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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What?

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559 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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RazorStoJ wrote:

I'm currently looking to buy that one and dump that also, none of us have it

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/o328172490 - just in case you have some spare $300 smile

RazorStoJ wrote:

Can you resend the discord link it expired

https://discord.gg/AHTfxQV

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560 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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MagnAyato wrote:

But I have read many CCD files and   DataTracksScrambled is always  set to 0.

Is that consistent ?

For the dumps - most likely yes, unless there's a custom dumping tool to dump into ccd as scrambled either on Plextors or via swapping. As I've said, I'm unsure this flag is actually supported, should be tested.

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562 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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https://www.ecma-international.org/publ … ma-130.pdf - you can read about the scrambling here.
IIRC, CloneCD theoretically supports data tracks in scrambled form, "1" should mean the data is scrambled, "0" surely means descrambled.

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563 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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564 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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RazorStoJ wrote:

Yeah that one, I have already given in to the Steel Battalion Community

Out of curiosity: does anyone from that community have a demo version of the first Tekki? https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/u225352296

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565 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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https://assemblergames.com/threads/pick … ost-931447 - this one? Awesome, if so smile

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566 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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Is it possible to generate the real SS sectors contents, without padding them with zeroes? What is the logic in different amounts of readable/unreadable sectors in different blocks?

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567 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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sarami wrote:
F1ReB4LL wrote:

http://forum.redump.org/topic/22567/ss- … gether-us/ -- this disc has a confirmed sub desync, but the recent DIC doesn't create the 'subs indexes' set of files (actually, the tracks are the same for both TOC and sub indexes, but the gaps in cue differ).

http://www.mediafire.com/file/eq80y20l9 … st.7z/file
- fixed: Desync flag was not set in some cases

Still doesn't work properly. http://forum.redump.org/post/70904/#p70904

FILE "subpop (1) (Subs indexes) (Track 01).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 00:00:00
    INDEX 01 00:00:32

Should be "INDEX 01 00:00:33".

FILE "subpop (1) (Subs indexes) (Track 09).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:03

Missing "INDEX 00 00:00:00".

The .sub file itself is correct and sub2cue detects "INDEX 01 00:00:33" for track 1 and "INDEX 00 00:00:00" for track 9 properly, so it's the DIC's gap detection bugged.

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568 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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http://forum.redump.org/topic/22985/ss-pd-demo/ - any idea why the descrambling failed/cancelled for the 2nd dump?

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570 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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571 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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Other than putting everything into the filename, the only other options are to extend a number of dats (and the db, allowing to select the categories and other kinds of tags to choose the groups of titles to be included into the dat), to extend a number of XML tags (the t**r*p's way) or both.

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572 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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The only alternative I can imagine is to modify the media sections to hold an additional system tag (which should hold as many systems as needed for the discs that relate to more than one system simultaneously) and output the per-system dats by request, but I really doubt iR0b0t will implement that. And the simple XML 'system' and 'related game' tags will not help much here unless someone writes a tool to split/convert the dat using these fields (though, that could be also a solution to handle the architectures and OSes inside the PC, MAC and Amiga dats and maybe even categories via another tag, allowing to add the multimedia and application titles and sort them properly).

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573 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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Jackal wrote:

Nobody likes your naming scheme @F1ReB4LL

Only 2 persons so far (not including TS, who has only pointed at the long filenames so far).

Jackal wrote:

Adding fictional titles and parts and creating huge and ugly filenames that don't comply with No-Intro standards.

Stop trolling. I've stated above quite clearly:

The region tags, various "(Alt)" and similar tags aren't the parts of the title as well, it's not an argument. The title part ends before the region tag.

OK, let's ask iRobot to remove all the tags, because any tag turns your title into fictional. And they must be in UTF 8 to support colons, question marks, etc., because replacing a colon with a dash makes the title "fictional". Asian titles should be all named using the native alphabet, since not all of them have the romanized titles on their covers and we don't want the fictional ones.

Jackal wrote:

You are always criticizing me for messing up things, but this is where you are messing up

You've already made your PC section an unmaintainable untagged pile of crap with all those untagged titles for all the OSes and PC/MAC/Amiga/whatever else hybrids and with all the standard ringcode revision marks absolutely ignored in all the cases, now you want to do the same with the media sections, no, that won't happen. It is now already full of questionable dumps without the title keys and possibly the decrypted dumps as well (since I remember some early discussions about dumping the protected ones with IsoBuster and active AnyDVD), let's now also give them plain untagged names and make them absolutely unsortable.

Once again: let's do the shorter tags, but it's not the "tags vs. no tags" discussion, but a tags format discussion. "A giant douche vs. a turd sandwich" election, if you want.

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574 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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So what happens if a game is released on multiple systems, but the disc's release was just accompanied by a certain system?

Only that certain system should be mentioned, then, if it's somehow tied to only one of the ports.

It looks sloppy as hell and not part of the item's official title.

The region tags, various "(Alt)" and similar tags aren't the parts of the title as well, it's not an argument. The title part ends before the region tag.

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575 Reply by F1ReB4LL

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user7 wrote:

Why? That can be noted in the entry's Comments.

"so, people, who only interested in PSX-related audio discs (for example) could easily sort out the needed files and ignore the rest".

These are the 'special' systems and their sections aren't intended to store all the releases for them, so they need to follow the special rules. And don't forget that the majority of people won't be able to see these entries and their comments, so the tags _must_ be in the dats.

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