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The results on the cd boxes compared to cds, is boxes come up looking like new, or very, very near to new.

Give it a go on one of your scratched cd boxes Jackal, it's so worth while.

I done about 10 minutes brassoing, and breathed the fumes for the same time, and it gives you a thumping head-ache, so be carefull.

It works really well, I think the wadding may scratch the disc more than the liquid, because you can use a really soft cloth with the liquid, the wadding is like cotton wool buds. The wadding sort I used to use on my nans brass ornaments.

It can take up to 10 mins to get all the scratches off a disc, and you will need to keep re-applying brasso to your cloth, every few minutes. Once you got the scratches of buff it up a bit with a clean cloth, then wash it in warm water and fairy liquid to get it cleam, then dry it with a soft clean cloth, then once its dry, for best results, spray it with a bit of mr sheen or anti-static furniture polish, and buff it again, that will get it dead shiny and will help it stay dust free.

If your shopping in England, supermarkets sell it in the cleaning isles.

BTW: It's only worth doing discs that are completely and totally scratched to hell, if it's a mint condition disc with a tiny surface scratch that makes no difference to how it reads, brassoing will not do your disc any favours, it will look more scratched than when it started.

But if its really bad to begin with, you wont get it like a brand new disc, what you will get is a disc with no big scratches but a lot of very faint rub marks, which means it will now read but wont look like a brand new original.

Basically you can take really bad discs and make them work, and look, a lot better.

Or you could craft a unit that contains space for every system, then firstly all the video leads would have the oposite end to the consoles, cut of and hard wired to a quality video switcher, soldered to the switcher, are the different output signal types, component, hdmi, vga, composite, etc etc. And the same for the audio, optical, stereo. Your crafted unit could be precision made once detailed blue prints were made. Then at least all the shells of the consoles could be discarded, just leaving the components in a big new shell. Anything like fans could all be improved and the same fans if well designed could be used to cool multiple sytems. You could even control two sytems from one drive for multiplayer situations. This is just the beginning and already I can see it taking shape. I would be happy with that system so far so good. But if we were to start hacking things could get messy or even better. It would all depend on you level of contention.

You could if you got this far easilly create a mod chip bank that contains mod chips wired securely to all the main boards.

This is all I've got time for now..

1/ How much padding would an average game have, does the amount vary from game to game?
2/ Would 2 copies of the same game have the same padding?
3/ Is the padding common to different games (maybe a particular developer has their own)?
4/ Is the entire padding for a game contiguous?
5/ Is the padding referenced in any way (maybe a hash check to ensure it's there), or is it properly just padding?

A1/ The smaller the actuall game data the more padding, so its exactly the same as the gamecube.
A2/ Yep I believe they do, two dumps that are equal have the same padding.
A3/ I haven't checked, as to check would be to make a 1:1 dump and the very difficulty wipe the game data, that could be something I might try though.
A4/ Dunno?
A5/ Dunno?

If padding is the same across many games, you've got the simplest answer.  Definately put I'm pretty sure its as random for each game, just as each individual game seems to have random padding from start to finish.

I did examine a section from the begggining of a padded part of the iso. I split of 999 parts 2048 bytes. I tried compressing using ape and they all came out bigger except two. I think it was probably those two half blank sectors, that contained some words of intrest.

IT SAID SOMTHING LIKE "MICROSOFT*XBOX*DVD" SHOULD HAVE MADE A NOTE OF IT. their was a bit more writing, I get the feeling it has something to do with the padding but it was just a header type bit of text like at the start of a dreamcast.bin file. But it was maybe 50 sectors from the start of the file.

You mods if you havent already seen this, go to the lba past the end of the video section, then sector view in isobuster, about 20-30 sectors and you'll see the MICROSOFT*XBOX*DVD text.

I have decided to give up finding better ways of compressing the random data.

The best compression I have found for the random padding is WinRAR store m0.

That only leaves one feasable option that would make us all jump for joy, would be to be able to generate it from scratch.

Wipe the padding first so it compresses then work out how to generate the exact data that was wiped, and hopefully the person in the process of doing this will spot what the random code is generated by.

Any one know of any actuall programs that can split a 100mb or above into seperate 1 byte files numerically ordered, so far I've only found tools that can split up to 999 files. I need something that can split to 1 byte files, and able to at least handle 100mb files (1073741824 bytes)

I'm beginning to think we have no chance other than winrar store compression. But it was worth a go.

It can be losslessly compressed. But theres no advantage because it doesn't get smaller.

What you mean is if you save it from a 32-bit.bmp to a 16-bit (making it smaller) then from 16-bit back to 32-bit, you loose all the original data. Or at least that what I was trying to say.

I see then, how can I test gamecube on my drive.

Tell me something I need friidump for and can use on my drive GameCube and Wii don't work, do they?

I have been trying stuff that doesn't need raw dumping so far and it seems to be working ok, can x360 discs get dumped with frii.

Or how about those heavily protected DVD-Video, the special batch Sony Made for certain anime films, they wont dump properly with anything, and have seemed to pack inabout 3% with frii, thats about the point isobuster packs in.

I'VE HAD AN IDEA, I'M DOING AN XBOX1 DUMP. WISH ME LUCK, HMM IS IT AROUND THE 10% POINT THAT THE DUMPING SLOWS  DOWN.

NEARLY RIGHT 8%, AND MY PC HAD TO BE HELD IN POWER PRESSED MODE TO SWITCH IT OF. THATS SEVERAL TODAY.

SO FAR MY ONLY WORKING FRIIDUMPS HAVE BEEN WITH SIMPLE COPY PROTECTION, NOTHING EXOTIC LIKE XBOX, NGC, OR BAD SECTOR DVD-VIDEOS. IS THAT ALL I CAN EXPECT FROM THE SH-D162D

Just had another succesfull go at dumping http://redump.org/disc/11512/ with FriiDump 0.5.3

friidump -d f: -c 1 -x 8 -T 3 -S 237325 -6=[8,48] -i capcom.iso

drive: SH-D162D

the friidump-dump matched the database.

The speed on the P4 Duo ended up @ 2515 MB/h when it finished