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(17 replies, posted in General discussion)

Kega supports iso-mp3 and iso-wav rips without using cuesheet at all, maybe it just ignores cue in this case? Too lazy to test, though smile Or (more likely) it reads a cue file, but when it sees audiotracks as separate wav files, it plays them directly, ignoring index settings for each file.

1,627

(17 replies, posted in General discussion)

Guess, Kega's internal CUE parser is wrong, not a dumping method issue.

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(55 replies, posted in General discussion)

Eidolon wrote:

I would like to give that "PerfectRip" program a try though - I didn't find it on this site, and google results were inconclusive.

PerfectRip doesn't work on all the drives, IIRC only on _some_ Plextors...

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(4 replies, posted in General discussion)

.gcm extension can be used for shrinked images sometimes.

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(55 replies, posted in General discussion)

Snake (Eidolon's Inn - relevant discussion thread) wrote:

BIN/CUE *IS* the best format to use for this stuff. CDRWIN all the way baby.

CDRWIN doesn't have any error correction/verification for audiotracks. You can loose a half of the track and it won't tell you about that (it's a rare case, but anyway). You can also get a dump full of clicks in audio. Audiotracks should be ripped with EAC only, and it should show "OK" for every track. As for Alcohol 120%, there's a long-standing bug, it produces wrong cue-sheets, so, never rip anything into bin/cue with Alcohol.

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(55 replies, posted in General discussion)

Eidolon wrote:

I have decided that making perfect dumps is pretty pointless, at least for the time being when it's such a hassle to produce.

Perfect dumps for history, like MAME. If you just want to play, bin-cue is enough. But if you want to save a perfect digital copy of your CD - you should waste some time. Remember, that CDs aren't eternal...

gigadeath wrote:

Actually I don't think I understand, it's beyond my comprehension skills big_smile

Looks like he's talking about postgap for audiotracks and additional pregaps for datatracks, if I understood this correctly...

Somebody should try to contact with necstasy.net owner, he should know some tricks and possible issues in PCE-CD dumping.

themabus wrote:

unopened cds from 20 years back tongue how can thihs be? unless they dig up time capsules

You can find lots of unopened retro-games in Japanese stores - just look at FDS dumping on No-Intro's forum, and most of the items in this shop are located in Japan.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/DREAM-STARS-JA … idZ2QQtZkm - if someone is interested in buying some cheap PCE CDs smile

Same for PC-FX and PC-FXGA CDs, btw.

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(21 replies, posted in General discussion)

ps2gamer2k7 wrote:

Completley irrelvent but what the hell if you hex edited a 3do dump it says "i am a duck" for no reason i thought i would say that

3DO has a custom file system, which uses this phrase for padding.

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(21 replies, posted in General discussion)

3DO is the only system that toseciso guys are able to dump correctly smile They've dumped most of the CDs already and, IIRC, missing only a few dozens.