1,501

(1 replies, posted in General discussion)

IMO, BIOS dat should be deleted, not our dumps inside.

RetroGamer wrote:

By the way, anybody shown interest in dumping Neo Geo CD discs?

Most of them have a subchannel-based protection, some magic dumping tool from Dremora is needed smile

1,502

(5 replies, posted in General discussion)

Looks like the same code is responsible for both scrambling and descrambling procedures. I.e. scrambling the already scrambling data leads to its descrambling and vice-versa. So, I've taken the scrambled dump and descrambled it via the tool. Its contents will be inverted during the burning, which will result in a true 1:1 copy.

So, at last - http://redump.org/disc/8047/

1,503

(18 replies, posted in News)

Like it or hate it - we've switched the naming to No-Intro's convention.

Comments from staff:

After careful considerations and several votings we've decided to change to the No-Intro naming convention. No-Intro has promised to come with a new version of their convention soon, so chances are that this will lead to some more changes. If you find any issues with the current naming or have any suggestions/corrections/additions, please post them in the forum.

1,504

(5 replies, posted in General discussion)

Haldrie wrote:

Sector 192819 may be showing as unscrambled because it comes just before a real audio track and the drive may be picking up on this and choosing to give you the unscrambled sector. This is only my theory though and I don't exactly have anything to back it up.

Nope, all the regular CDs don't have this issue and even the very last sector is shown scrambled on them, as it should. About this CD -- same result with the NEC drive and swap disc, same result with Plextor and D8. Btw, none of the programs (CloneCD, Alcohol 120%, etc.) can even find the 00 index for the 2nd audiotrack (subs are fine, nothing unusual).

1,505

(5 replies, posted in General discussion)

F1ReB4LL wrote:

(if you try to burn it, the last sector will be scrambled and the copy will differ), we need to dump all the CDs without descrambling to keep such things.

I mean, the structure of this CD can't be properly preserved under the current dumping methods, I haven't said it can't be dumped at all.

1,506

(12 replies, posted in General discussion)

PR can't dump them properly, the only way is to dump the entire disc with cdtoimg and cut the 2nd track from this image, anything other is a bad dump.

1,507

(5 replies, posted in General discussion)

2-tracks CD, 1st is data track, 192820 sectors long (0-192819).

Sector #192818 (scrambled) wrote:

00000000 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 43 D2 68 61 ............C.ha
00000016 00 28 00 1E 80 08 60 06 A8 02 FE 81 80 60 60 28 .(....`......``(
00000032 28 1E 9E 88 68 66 AE AA FC 7F 01 E0 00 48 00 36 (...hf.......H.6
00000048 80 16 E0 0E C8 04 56 83 7E E1 E0 48 48 36 B6 96 ......V.~..HH6..
00000064 F6 EE C6 CC 52 D5 FD 9F 01 A8 00 7E 80 20 60 18 ....R......~. `.
00000080 28 0A 9E 87 28 62 9E A9 A8 7E FE A0 40 78 30 22 (...(b...~..@x0"
00000096 94 19 AF 4A FC 37 01 D6 80 5E E0 38 48 12 B6 8D ...J.7...^.8H...
00000112 B6 E5 B6 CB 36 D7 56 DE BE D8 70 5A A4 3B 3B 53 ....6.V...pZ.;;S
00000128 53 7D FD E1 81 88 60 66 A8 2A FE 9F 00 68 00 2E S}....`f.*...h..
00000144 80 1C 60 09 E8 06 CE 82 D4 61 9F 68 68 2E AE 9C ..`......a.hh...
00000160 7C 69 E1 EE C8 4C 56 B5 FE F7 00 46 80 32 E0 15 |i...LV....F.2..
00000176 88 0F 26 84 1A E3 4B 09 F7 46 C6 B2 D2 F5 9D 87 ..&...K..F......
00000192 29 A2 9E F9 A8 42 FE B1 80 74 60 27 68 1A AE 8B )....B...t`'h...
00000208 3C 67 51 EA BC 4F 31 F4 14 47 4F 72 B4 25 B7 5B <gQ..O1..GOr.%.[
00000224 36 BB 56 F3 7E C5 E0 53 08 3D C6 91 92 EC 6D 8D 6.V.~..S.=....m.
00000240 ED A5 8D BB 25 B3 5B 35 FB 57 03 7E 81 E0 60 48 ....%.[5.W.~..`H
00000256 28 36 9E 96 E8 6E CE AC 54 7D FF 61 80 28 60 1E (6...n..T}.a.(`.
00000272 A8 08 7E 86 A0 62 F8 29 82 9E E1 A8 48 7E B6 A0 ..~..b.)....H~..
00000288 76 F8 26 C2 9A D1 AB 1C 7F 49 E0 36 C8 16 D6 8E v.&......I.6....
00000304 DE E4 58 4B 7A B7 63 36 A9 D6 FE DE C0 58 50 3A ..XKz.c6.....XP:
00000320 BC 13 31 CD D4 55 9F 7F 28 20 1E 98 08 6A 86 AF ..1..U..( ...j..
00000336 22 FC 19 81 CA E0 57 08 3E 86 90 62 EC 29 8D DE ".....W.>..b.)..
00000352 E5 98 4B 2A B7 5F 36 B8 16 F2 8E C5 A4 53 3B 7D ..K*._6......S;}
00000368 D3 61 9D E8 69 8E AE E4 7C 4B 61 F7 68 46 AE B2 .a..i...|Ka.hF..
00000384 FC 75 81 E7 20 4A 98 37 2A 96 9F 00 00 00 00 00 .u.. J.7*.......
00000400 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000416 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000432 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
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00000752 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
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00000800 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000816 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000832 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000848 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000864 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000880 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000896 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000912 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000928 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000944 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000960 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000976 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000992 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
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00001120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
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00001152 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
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00001328 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
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00001456 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
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00001504 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001520 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
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00001552 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001568 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
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00001616 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001632 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001648 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001664 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001680 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001696 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001712 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001728 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001744 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001760 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001776 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001792 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001808 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001824 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001840 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001856 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001872 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001888 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001904 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001920 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001936 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001952 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001968 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00001984 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002016 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002032 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002048 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002064 62 86 B4 AE 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7C 97 BB F5 b...........|...
00002080 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002096 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002112 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002128 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002144 00 00 00 00 00 00 A6 97 C1 EF 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002160 00 00 3E C5 D3 F4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..>.............
00002176 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002192 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002208 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002224 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C4 11 75 41 ..............uA
00002240 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 89 BB 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002256 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 6E 22 ..............n"
00002272 A1 08 E9 F6 26 DC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....&...........
00002288 00 00 00 00 00 00 4B 65 AE 6E 6C B0 CB E9 00 00 ......Ke.nl.....
00002304 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002320 00 00 DA 8C 02 61 3A 20 E2 CD 00 00 00 00 00 00 .....a: ........
00002336 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 F0 90 01 0D 3A 74 ..............:t

Sector #192819 (scrambled) wrote:

00000000 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 42 52 69 01 ............BRi.
00000016 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000032 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000048 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000064 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000080 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000096 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000112 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000128 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000144 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000160 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000176 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000192 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000208 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000224 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000240 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000256 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
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00000288 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000304 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000320 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000336 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000352 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000368 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000384 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000400 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000416 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000432 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
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00002064 F3 E3 24 CB 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7C 97 4E F5 ..$.........|.N.
00002080 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002096 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002112 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002128 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002144 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 38 6C 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 .......8l@......
00002160 00 00 3E C5 27 F4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..>.'...........
00002176 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002192 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002208 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002224 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FB DB 48 8B ..............H.
00002240 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 89 BB 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002256 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4F 29 ..............O)
00002272 6F 66 41 75 61 3A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ofAua:..........
00002288 00 00 00 00 00 00 2E 65 12 6E B5 B0 CB E9 00 00 .......e.n......
00002304 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00002320 00 00 6B E2 F0 C5 01 C6 9A E1 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..k.............
00002336 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 60 90 49 0D E2 74 ..........`.I..t

The sector #192818 is corrupted (half-zeroed), descrambled one is also errorneous. The sector #192819 isn't scrambled at all, it's written on the CD in its unscrambled form.

This CD can't be dumped properly under the current methods (if you try to burn it, the last sector will be scrambled and the copy will differ), we need to dump all the CDs without descrambling to keep such things.

1,508

(12 replies, posted in General discussion)

Check the first few sectors of Track02 PR's dump - should be data, similar to px_d8 output.

1,509

(12 replies, posted in General discussion)

Actually, I was looking for some corrupted scrambled sectors, looks like it's not the case smile

Why not to use PR dump only? I'm not sure about moving the sectors, looks like the 2nd track pregap contains some data sectors here, if so - they should be scrambled, you can't retrieve the proper pregap from isobuster's dump of the first track, then. You need to extract the track manually after dumping the whole CD with cdtoimg (dumps all the sectors in scrambled mode). According to the subs, 257871 is the last data sector, so the data track should be 257872 sectors long, or 606,514,944 bytes. Sectors 257872 and 257873 contain data, according to your previous copypastes, but they belong to the audiotrack, according to the subs.

1,510

(12 replies, posted in General discussion)

Weird, 257872 shouldn't have any synchro. Try to check 257873, 257874, etc. - until you find a sector without "00FFFF..." inside.

Btw, the gap is 00:02:01, according to the subs.

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(12 replies, posted in General discussion)

Px_D8 v1.01.  09 Dec 2007.  Truong Hy.
Usage: px_d8 <drive letter> <LBA sector> [sub-ch bits]
sub-ch bits:
  0 or ommit for no sub-ch data
  1=16 PQ
  2=96 PW packed mode

So, 257870, 257871, 257872 as LBA sector, should give you different results. Should look like this: "px_d8.exe F: 257870" (change the F: letter to the letter of your drive).

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(12 replies, posted in General discussion)

Could you take the original px_d8 (not Dremora's one) and copypaste the contents of sectors 257870, 257871, 257872 here, please?

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(8 replies, posted in General discussion)

Great, thanks! I've removed the translated ones from my original post.

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Magical Drop III - Toretate Zoukangou! (J) -- Toretate or Tore Tate?
Sakura Taisen 2 - Kimi, Shini Tamou Kotonakare (J) -- Kotonakare or Kotona Kare?
Soukyuu Gurentai (J) -- Soukyuu Gurentai or Soukyuugurentai? Soukyuu or Soukyu?
Thor - Seireioukiden (J) -- Seireioukiden or Seireiou Kiden?

iR0b0t wrote:
F1ReB4LL wrote:

I've just named 2 titles, where this 'method' doesn't give a proper result (experienced users will get the wrong result as well).

F1ReB4LL, if you can calculate the last used data sector + add the postgap, you will see that there exactly 151 sectors pregap for "Gale Racer" and 152 sectors pregap for "Gunbird" Track02, and that without any sub analysis !!!

It's wa-ay easier to look into subs than counting all those LBAs.

RetroGamer wrote:

So we should check the whole gap with sector view in raw mode to verify if there's data?

RetroGamer wrote:

-how to add that gap to the audio track? the SAT dumping guide talks about the command "fix track 2.bat" to fix the audio track in this situations... so, this command adds 2 sec of silence to the audio track? it's ok to use that tool for other systems too?

First of all, you should check the real gap size in the subs (at least, dump the CD with CloneCD and look into its generated .cue). Then, you should look manually at the gap to check, if it's really consist of zeroes. The gap in this case can be not only 00:02:00, it can be 00:01:74, so you shouldn't just always add 2 secs of silence.

I've just named 2 titles, where this 'method' doesn't give a proper result (experienced users will get the wrong result as well).

It's not the best way, especially if there are data sectors in pregap due to a mastering error (see Gale Racer or Gunbird). I'm sure there's enough potentially bad PSX dumps already due to this logic and I want to preserve the Saturn section from such dumps with 'assumed' gaps.

RetroGamer wrote:

-how to detect the gap manually?

Only by subs. You can try to use CloneCD, though, it usually detects the gaps properly in this case.

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(9 replies, posted in General discussion)

SoulReever wrote:

If these dumps are obtained from non-original media - then there must be a certain way we can detect these aside from relying on multiple user submissions?

Yes, http://forum.redump.org/post/18689/#p18689

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(19 replies, posted in General discussion)

http://www.softpres.org/article:scannin … guidelines

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HwitVlf wrote:

I was just wondering if anyone here has ever considered creating/extending a database to catalogue game package contents, manual/cover versions etc? Not for the purpose of replacement documents, but solely to record existing versions.
It's hard to figure out what originally came with a game and it will just get harder as time goes by so I think such a database would be helpful.

Dremora was working on it, don't know the status.

RetroGamer wrote:

That's a good idea but i think that has nothing to do with Redump.org... this site should be only to dump the game discs and nothing more... like no-intro but instead of carts we dump discs smile

I'd say we should be closer to http://www.softpres.org/ - they dump disks _and_ scan all the papers.

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Haldrie wrote:

In that case EAC's default and everyone that rips audio CDs with the default settings have it wrong.

It's not a EAC's issue, it's a general PC drives firmware issue. That's why they read the first data track and 2nd audio track's pregap together.

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(3 replies, posted in General discussion)

Hmm, there is at least one more similar case - Sharks! CD32, it's a homebrew/unofficial game, which was sold on CD-Rs, contains thousands of errors on CDDA tracks due to incorrect mastering/burning (dunno, whether it was made intentional or not).

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(9 replies, posted in General discussion)

Pregap belongs to the next track according to the sub and Red Book standards.

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(2 replies, posted in General discussion)

You can also try to work there smile Or find a friend, who works in such place.