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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 ^^

Make sure to check "Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out" in "Drive Options -> Offset/Speed" and specify the correct read offset sample correction value (i.e. the amount of samples you determined via IsoBuster's sector view for track 02). Other than that there aren't any offset-related options you could change.

To check if your drive is actually capable of overreading with EAC, try the following: Go to the EAC Options (F9), choose the  "Extraction" tab and uncheck "Fill up missing offset samples with silence". Extract the last track again. If EAC fails to read the offset samples, the resulting file will be a few bytes smaller than it should be. In that case you cannot use EAC to dump the last track. You'll have to do it manually with IsoBuster instead.

I believe Jackal is referring to this topic. That CloneCD method won't work, though, it just prevents EAC from showing a sync error in the overread sectors. That doesn't mean it can actually access any data in the overread sectors. If you are lucky you'll get a match, but only in case the overread sectors are all 00s. Therefore, you can never really be sure whether you've lost any data!

However, that IsoBuster method proposed by velocity37 might actually work. I didn't try it yet but it does sound promising for drives that support it. It's still quite intricate so you should rather buy a decent drive. A Plextor PX-716A is usually quite cheap here on eBay.

Hi Ghazy, yes, it's a bit hard to find here I found only 2 German online shops... the first one wants more than 10€ for shipping and minimum order is 20€ so you'd have to buy 4 bottles -.-

The second one looks much better, "only" 5€ for shipping and no minimum order. I'm thinking about ordering one or two bottles there myself

Normally from the inside out. When locating scratches you'll have to consider that the amount of data per rotation gets bigger and bigger towards the outer edge of the disc. Therefore, assuming the read error occurs at 50% of the extraction, the scratch isn't exactly at the middle of the disc but quite a bit nearer to the outer edge.