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I'm 90% sure it doesn't have any copy protection. You can't play the game without a subscription anyway, so why would they waste money on protecting the disc? But you should always check with BurnOut or PiD to be 100% sure.

In any case you can dump it like any other DVD with IsoBuster, no additional steps required.

Mmh, -UKV does not necessarily mean it's UK-only. There are some examples of a UKV dump matching an EUR dump.

I haven't figured it out completely yet, but the last letter before the -UKV or -EUR seems much more important. There seems to be a pattern: P is for Europe, D for Germany, E for USA, J for Japan, F for France, U for Australia and so on. Haven't figured out X and Y yet... Anyway, it would be wrong to assume that UKV means UK-only.

Well afaik that's only true for discs with a large positive combined offset (larger than 1 sector = 588 samples). But again, I've never tried to dump discs with a negative combined offset

There is an offset for data tracks, too. Drives recognize and correct it automatically. For an audio disc it doesn't really matter if your music is shifted by 1 or 2 hundredth of a second, at least from a pure listening point of view ^^ But non-audio data usually needs to be bit-accurate, so the drive has to adjust to both the factory and the drive's write offset.

And no, there's no overlap for discs with a negative offset. If the disc has a factory write offset of -647, for example, all data and audio tracks are shifted by those -647 sectors. But, as I mentioned before, the data tracks get adjusted properly, while the audio tracks don't, that's why we have to do that manually ^^

That said, it's possible that EAC loses samples at the beginning of the 1st audio track if the combined offset is negative. It's an annoying EAC quirk. You'll have to make sure that your drive's offset "outweighs" the negative factory offset. I have an LG with +667 which I use to dump -647 (a common PSX factory offset) or similar. If you're lucky, you have a Plextor. In this case you can use PlexTools, which doesn't seem to be affected by that problem

As for IsoBuster, it does know where the data track ends, but it appends the pregap of the 2nd track to it. The reason we need to cut that off is because redump handles the gaps differently. IsoBuster appends a track's gap to the end of the previous track (so the Track 2 pregap is put at the end of Track 1), while redump prepends the gap to the track it actually belongs to (pregap, as per cue specification ^^).

Appending the gap to the previous track is kind of a hackish solution to allow people to listen to their audio tracks without having the (mostly silent) pregap at the beginning.

I hope that answers all your questions

That's exactly it It's a cheap ass thing but it gets the job done.

Yes, a bunch All my DC dumps were made that way. Why do you think IsoBuster wouldn't do it right? ^^

Drive: Samsung TSSTCorp SH-D162D w/ Kreon Firmware (through an IDE-to-USB connector)
MB: MSI MS-7358
OS: Vista64, up-to-date

Mmh, take AccurateRip, for example. They do exactly the same thing for audio discs, just not accurate enough for me (without overreading, gaps etc). They've been doing it for years, have tens of thousands of discs in their database and afaik never got into trouble. I doubt anyone could possibly sue redump or any other project for providing checksums ^^

Wii, 360 and PS3 actually are hidden for guests, so that could be done for regular DVDs/Audio CDs, too, if you prefer to keep it silent ^^

Because we're lazy and incompetent. That's what you wanna hear, isn't it?

Seriously, the mods are little more than adding/fixing slaves you'd have to speak to the admins about such general questions regarding the project's direction. As far as I know, redump only wants games or gaming-related discs, so these discs - as rare and interesting as they might be - won't get added.

That being said, I've repeatedly said that - personally - I'd love to have all kinds of discs in the database, even if they're not gaming-related. Video-UMDs and Video-DVDs in general, maybe even Audio-CDs. I'm not only interested in games, and I'd love to have bit-perfect DVD-V and CDA dumps (and even CDi movies ^^) just as much as PSX or PS2 ^^ But I doubt that'll ever happen... Besides, this project has bigger problems than that

You needn't use CMP. Just calculate CRC, MD5 and SHA-1 as you would with any DVD game (via HashCalc or whatever you use).

When adding the disc, put the following in the "ClrMamePro data" field:

size 12345678 crc aa11bb22 md5 736528356283765235 sha1 634587648561287563287546

Just replace my random numbers with your image's values. Size is the image size in bytes (as always, real size, not size on disk). CRC, MD5 and SHA1 should be self explanatory

Then you need to supply a cuesheet. PS2 CDs are MODE2, so you can always use the following:

FILE "Track01.bin" BINARY
  TRACK 01 MODE2/2352
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

Strange, if you open the .md5 in a text editor you'll see that it contains the exact same hash as on the website:

.md5 file: c92fcaaa3b8e6edb377c9573be67ae03 *God Hand (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It).iso
website: c92fcaaa3b8e6edb377c9573be67ae03

I'm not familiar with Hashcheck but maybe it needs you to rename your file according to the .md5 filename in order to verify it. Try to rename your file to God Hand (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It).iso

Or better yet, use clrmamepro It can both check and rename your files automatically ^^