okay, we can put it inside of TRACKER section for now, so only registered users with dumper status have access to it

and YES to your question (WAVE4 only, WAVE3 is already mentioned)

I've put the old description online again http://forum.redump.org/topic/5887/xbox360-dumping/

But we need a better layout for that, if you can, post your guide inside, we will then try to find a way for a nice description together  smile

EDIT:
i have no info now about WAVE5, but i may download L4D2 and get it from there.

EDIT2:

amarok wrote:

One question that remains is how to distinguish WAVE3 from WAVE4

I think there is a way how to do that if you still have some discs with WAVE3 & 4 ? We would need to check the visible partition sizes, they may be slowly different in size !?

amarok wrote:

Is the XBC method better?

not really, better use isobuster method.

EDIT:
if you want to write a dumping guide please do so, i have no time for that, i may correct or put some additional info afterward.

amarok, are you going the non-isobuster way? i guess you are using XBC (?)

ahh, firmware limitations (and chip set differences)

amarok wrote:

I didn't know that

I didn't tell you, that's the reason ,)

amarok wrote:

Do you know what sets these drives apart so they can read these discs?

Well, they have to be taken apart, yes! There are some different reasons why that has to be done. And using these drives is much more work (and more complicated) than using a Samsung drive with a hacked firmware -> Kreon.

To be exactly all drives, which are working for Dreamcast dumping, can be used here also (with a little exception that they can not be used to read SS sector data, but DMI & PFI can be read out)

http://forum.redump.org/post/14552/#p14552

Devcon wrote:

it's there any way to filter only the dics i'm missing?

http://redump.org/list/have/Devcon/<system>/

http://redump.org/list/miss/Devcon/<system>/

<systems>
mac
ss
psx
...

I guess filter options are very limited, for more info you would need to ask Dremora

You can bookmark everything you need for faster access, however  smile

Devcon wrote:

Are they changed to 'Miss' automatically for all the users?

It would be nice, but not available ATM

yes, i was just pointing to incorrection

I don't believe dat file generator uses UTF-8 encoding, it would be a mess when you think about all the other countries and languages which aren't "familiar" (have more signs) with a simple English alphabet !

some ppl have complained this before, so it seems not to be supported by Win7.

try other ways, like resizing manually with a hed editor, or use isobuster and extract an amount of sectors like you need -> so if your current extracted image is 300150 sectors 4ex. and the pregap is 150 sectors (2 secs.) then extract 150 sectors less = 300000 (length)

but when you go manually ways try to do it carefully !

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It's probably a bad mastered disc, it doesn't mean fatal errors, and when your twice dumped info is equal then there is no problem, just submit your dumping data  smile

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Well, to set Europe + USA to World should not be a problem as they cover both PAL + NTSC, as it is how we gonna now to merge them for other systems when two releases match. Japanese release would be anyway different and have own Japan tag.

btw. why not to create a new (Japusa) region  lol

Discovered something funny in the last track of this disc http://redump.org/disc/1351/ which should usually match other last dummy tracks of this series.

Here is what it contains in the last sector

0010 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
0020 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 0D 0A 0D 0A   ................
0030 : 0D 0A 0D 0A 0D 0A 0D 0A  09 20 20 42 4F 4C 4C 4F   .........  BOLLO
0040 : 43 4B 53 20 41 4E 44 20  53 48 49 54 45 21 00 00   CKS AND SHITE!..

lol  lol  lol

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okay okay, i will up it tomorrow, i promise  roll

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Actually, you should check:
- if there is data BEFORE the 1st track when it begins with "non zero'ed" samples
- and if there is data AFTER the last track when the last track ends with "non zero'ed" samples

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Depends on whats recorded in the subs, so it would be better to examine them.

When you know the exact pregap length you can go back in isobuster and when there are data sectors you have to extract them first and add to the track.

Also, it could happen that there is a mixed pregap of audio and data sectors.

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yes ghosty, (pre) means before  wink

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whats with this one http://redump.org/disc/10483/

it was a bundle of 3 discs Dino Crisis 5th Anniversary, which contains 2 PSX games: Dino Crisis 1+2, most probably it had to be moved to PSX section

maybe it would be okay to add them to pc section.

RiMMER i see you are using en<->ru translator tongue

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actually you have to count every sample (4 bytes)


+1 sample / +4 bytes

XX XX XX XX 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

+2 samples / +8 bytes

XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

+3 samples / +12 bytes

XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX 00 00 00 00

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Got RE5 (PS3) but no way to dump it  lol

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subchannels are usually compressable to 1-2 mb

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TY Haldrie

Nexy you can post the subchannel data here and let somebody determine the correct gap length for the first.

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Discs with a similar structure (4 Tracks -> Data, Audio, Audio, Data)

US (CDLock)    -> Illegal TOC + OverSized (all discs)
UK (CDLock)    -> Illegal TOC + OverSized (all discs)
DE (LaserLock) -> Illegal TOC + OverSized (not every disc) + Encrypted Data (a visible ring)

(*) subs checked

USA
http://redump.org/disc/10690/ -> Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty (USA) (?) bad dump
http://redump.org/disc/11798/ -> Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty (USA) (?) sub-code checked?
http://redump.org/disc/11797/ -> Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines (USA) (?) sub-code checked?
http://redump.org/disc/24287/ -> Project I.G.I.: I'm Going In (USA) (?)
http://redump.org/disc/10516/ -> Thief: The Dark Project (USA) (*)
http://redump.org/disc/6584/   -> Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft (USA) (*)
http://redump.org/disc/6602/   -> Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft (USA) (*)

UK
http://redump.org/disc/16024/  -> Tomb Raider III: The Lost Artefact (Europe) (*)

DE
http://redump.org/disc/9204/   -> Gothic (Germany) (Disc 2) (*)
http://redump.org/disc/9206/   -> Stephen King's F13 (Germany) (*)