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The hashing phase is slow at least in part due to it only reading 2K at a time from the file. There's even a comment to that effect.

https://github.com/saramibreak/DiscImag … l.cpp#L557

Changing it to something like this (reading 512K at a time) should be noticeably quicker (from my experience writing something similar in C#, I haven't tested this change in DIC):

#define CHUNK_SIZE 524288

        BYTE data[CHUNK_SIZE] = {};
        UINT64 ui64Remaining = ui64FileSize;
        OutputString("Hashing: %s\n", pszFnameAndExt);
        while (ui64Remaining > 0) {
            UINT uiChunkSize = ui64Remaining < CHUNK_SIZE ? ui64Remaining : CHUNK_SIZE;
            if (fread(data, sizeof(BYTE), uiChunkSize, fp) < uiChunkSize) {
                OutputErrorString("Failed to read: read size %u [F:%s][L:%d]\n", uiChunkSize, _T(__FUNCTION__), __LINE__);
                return FALSE;
            };
            nRet = CalcHash(&crc32, &context, &sha, data, uiChunkSize);
            if (!nRet) {
                break;
            }
            ui64Remaining -= uiChunkSize;
        }

Thanks to iRobot for bringing the site back up.

As Jackal said, thousands of volunteer hours have gone into making this database.

A rough low estimate of 1h per dump (acquisition, dumping, language check, submission) means that I've personally spent a year, 40h/week dumping games.

Between all the dumpers, admins and moderators, this database has millions of dollars worth of time spent on it.

That's a database worthy of a solid backup plan.

Every game released in the USA has now been dumped (minus alternate revisions and demos).  Congratulations, and thank you to everyone that helped achieve this significant milestone!

The newest releases are now requiring the v3.21 firmware

I'll be able to dump many of the missing games, but not that one.  So in case anyone was waiting for me to dump it, stop waiting!

My vote would be to take out the Disney, Disney/Pixar prefixes.  If you look at no-intro's DS and GBA dats, they do not have them in the title for games like Cars, Ratatouille, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, etc.

From what I've learned so far on XBOX 1 dumping, the difficulty with dumping with KREON drive is finding the correct location of the security placeholders, not with the random padding.  Maybe you're saying that the security placeholders are part of the random padding, and getting rid of padding gets rid of the security placeholder problem?

I've been able to dump XBOX 1 games with KREON, zero the placeholders using info in the database (which was done with modded XBOX), and I ended up with a dump matching the database.

I've just started buying XBOX 1 games, I have over 80 so far.  Even though I would much prefer dumping them on my KREON drive because of the convenience, I don't want to do it at the expense of less accurate preservation.  I'll get a modded XBOX soon...

Projects like SPS (Software Preservation Society) are going to great extents in order to preserve floppies quite accurately, allowing copy protected discs to be fully preserved.  This is the direction we should aim for.  Just because we don't have a solution for dealing with problematic discs like copy protected cds, saturn rings, etc., doesn't mean we won't have one in the future.  We shouldn't let currently impossible things be a reason to do less with XBOX discs, which are inconvenient but possible to dump.

Thanks for the information amarok.

I read the wikipedia pages for Norwegian language.  It says Nynorsk ('Nn') is used by about 10-15% of population, Bokmål ('No') by the rest.

I then started LittleBigPlanet in Norwegian to see which language it uses.  With the help of an online translation dictionary ( http://www.apertium.org/index.php?id=translatetext ) , I found that the following text used in LittleBigPlanet is Bokmål ('No'):

The translation in Nynorsk ('Nn') would be:

It all points to the correct language code being 'No'.

Can the person in charge of the datfile generation code please fix this?

And here's the stylesheet.

According to gamefaqs.com, the title is slightly different in Europe:

Avatar: The Legend of Aang
Release date Feb 9, 2007
Serial is DOL P GAVP

Box cover can be found on tescodvdrental.com, I searched for Avatar Legend Gamecube on their site.

http://www.tescodvdrental.com/tesco/ima … -large.jpg

When you get dumper status, you'll have access to new forum sections, where you can find such lists.