JamJam could you help me with this aswell if at all possible.

I have a xml file which i need to remove certain lines quickly

Example.

    <Event InTC="00:00:33:17" OutTC="00:00:33:19" Forced="False">
      <Graphic Width="1241" Height="966" X="47" Y="63">Ep 1_exp_exp_exp_0089.png</Graphic>
    </Event>
    <Event InTC="00:00:33:19" OutTC="00:00:33:20" Forced="False">
      <Graphic Width="1241" Height="966" X="47" Y="63">Ep 1_exp_exp_exp_0090.png</Graphic>
    </Event>
    <Event InTC="00:00:33:20" OutTC="00:00:33:20" Forced="False">
      <Graphic Width="1241" Height="966" X="47" Y="63">Ep 1_exp_exp_exp_0091.png</Graphic>
    </Event>
    <Event InTC="00:00:33:20" OutTC="00:00:33:22" Forced="False">
      <Graphic Width="1241" Height="966" X="47" Y="63">Ep 1_exp_exp_exp_0092.png</Graphic>
    </Event>

I would like a tool that could remove all the lines that have this one thing in common.

    <Event InTC="00:00:33:20" OutTC="00:00:33:20" Forced="False">
      <Graphic Width="1241" Height="966" X="47" Y="63">Ep 1_exp_exp_exp_0091.png</Graphic>
    </Event>

You see on this example I have InTC="00:00:33:20" & OutTC="00:00:33:20" and the times are both the same, I Want all lines from this xml to be removed if InTC = OutTC. You will probably need to find a way to remove the two lines below the lines with identical times to make it work. ie.

      <Graphic Width="1241" Height="966" X="47" Y="63">Ep 1_exp_exp_exp_0091.png</Graphic>
    </Event>

Would this be hard to make a programme to do this, if not do you need an example xml to try it on, this would save me hours and hours of work and make me very happy, and I'll find a few games I have dupes of and you can have them when you send me that drive, I have a few xbox games i could send if that will be a help, I dont have the space to keep all the games I have so getting rid of ten xbox games will at least make 10 spaces for games I havent got.

Trying a disc now, 49 Initial Dumps, no rewad errors, goes back to verify, guess what read error, Non-Match, Non Match.

Basically I think these non matches are because the first read error cocked it up.

This programme still needs lots of work, this ones giving every section non matches, i have had enough for today.

DOES this help, If it says initial dump, that means the drive has read the disc thats all, but good, but may contain errors.

If on the verification pass it says match, match, match.... sit back and relax.

If it says no match, then this is a big problem as its 99% certain that the discs scratches are causing the problem.

But if it says read error, then this is not because of scratches, its more to do with the drive, gdrom and software.

If you have a read error on SECTION 1 and 49, I Really dont think the samsung drive can read section 1 then go to section 49, Im pretty sure this is impossible. Not without reading somewhere in between, which could be the fix you need. By maybe telling the programme if it needs section 49, then try to start reading before that, but only read to memory then once it has found its position the read could be moved up one section untill it finds its position and repeated untill you get to the section you actually need ie. 49

So if section 1 and 49 read error. Then even after the tenth pass, it will just keep saying read error on and on.

But the first section is easy to fix just read it with cdrwin.

The 49th Section, is more difficult.

You can tell CDRWin to read from 477128-549150 then split it into 24199728 byte packages, and just keep the ones you need.

477128 was the highest position I could find that CDRWIN would start from, higher and you just get an error.

Does that make a bit more sense now jamjam smile

You sort of understand, but i dont think you see fully, and its not your programme at fault. Its great stuff smile

I'll explain a bit more later, at the moment im using a combination of cdrwin and your tool, cdrwin to dump the last sections.

I have been using it all day, and I understand how it works, i even have one good dump to prove it, its when it doesnt work, the main problem lies in going from the end of the disc to the start, this drive aint a native gdrom drive afterall.

I hope you can try those suggestions i made earlier at least try reading Section:2,1,3 in that order to see if it helps ill test it if you can writew the option, it wouldnt hurt to give it a try, then we can deal with the end sections later.

smile

Another suggestion for an option aswell as the other suggestion, would be to have it read three sections, then verify three sections, to avoid the drive going from the end to the start, which it doesnt do very well.

I just got a disc to dump section 1-49 initial dump, no read errors, but then when it went back to the start to verify, section 1+2 had read errors, im hoping all other sections get matches, as dumping the first two sections is not as big a problem as dumping the last two.

Heres a fix that would be easy to implement with an option.

My drive struggles to initialise the dump from 44990, but it has no problem if it first trys from 50000, then i cancell, and jog back to 44990, then it will read no problem.

So the fix would be for Section:2 to be dumped first, then Section:1 then Section:3 --> onwards.

What do you think jamjam sound possible, ill try it out if you like.

I managed to get one previously undumpable to dump and ice exe said no errors (single track game) smile Your my personal saviour smile

But Im having a lot of read error issues with section 48, even with the disc i dumped, I had to remove sections 31-47, and redump them before the drive would physically dump section 48. Can you work on the section 48 bug please jamjam.

And BTW DDump did nothing when i ran it, CDRWin said my drive was 3:0:0 and mthat didnt work, in the end i tried jamjams setting 0:0:0 and that worked.

Jamjam maybe you need to right a tool that does the DDump part to get the drive id.

working now thanks folks.

I have noticed, it gives read errors on, section 0,47 & 48, I dont think it has got anything to do with scratches, it seems its just a problem with the drive somehow, not being able to read the very start or the very end of the disc.

The first 3 I tried, had problems, but read in very fast, about 10 minutes each disc all passses, this 4th disc I am trying is reading in much slower, but didnt give read errors on the initial dump on any section.

And so far what is dumping is typically getting matches second time, apart from when it has scratch problems, which all my disc now im unable to dump sadly have got or had bad scratch problems.

Im sad, becasue the other day before i knew of this program, i cleaned two discs, really well, and both had one error when ice ran through the bin, and me being stupid tried a re-clean, then they ended up with a lot more errors

I want to test this but im very unclear as to how????

Please let me know, what to do, and could I have the required dlls, as im getting a dll error for starters

http://redump.org/disc/19166/, is in database twice aswell.

For example, Buggy Heat is blue, and I know I have 5 originals and I dumped everyone of them, so how can it be blue.

I need a quick answer.

thanks

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not sure, someone asked if i was intrested in dumping my saturn games in raw mode, as it is a more accurate way, apparently.

didn't you even instruct me to dump a track from one of my saturn discs in raw mode, using cdtoimg or something?

High I have tried both the LG-8164b, with fri dump and raw dump, the disc cant be dumped, wont even start to dump.

And on a gamecube/w./sd gecko, it gives up at 2% every time.

I see the PAL version is dumped, and was wondering if anyone knows how it was dumped, because the NTSC one wont seem to.

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Now neo-geo can be dumped smile my question is hows it done.

Can it be done in raw mode for example, isnt that supposed to be good for saturn, and would it be good for neo-geo cd.

And what if anything is the things to look out for, I have heard they are not the most straight forward of discs to presserve.

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Now neo-geo can be dumped smile my question is hows it done.

Can it be done in raw mode for example, isnt that supposed to be good for saturn, and would it be good for neo-geo cd.

And what if anything is the things to look out for, I have heard they are not the most straight forward of discs to presserve.

Some of my cleaning products, that I use on dirty or scratched discs and boxes.

http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa480/tossEAC/DSC00042.jpg

smile

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ok trying that now smile

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Yes Im after the unlock way, where anydvd does not decrypt the disc.

I done a few a while ago, it involved VLC to unlock disc then isobuster to dump, the result a 1:1 dump, anydvd is needed if you want to play the dump.

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Just borrowed Resident Evil 5 for the [XBOX 360].

It has a DVD-Video with it, but I can't remember how to dump them. It has protection that Im sure of.

I used to open them with VLC first before dumping, but I cant remember the exact method.

Can someone remind me how to dump protected DVD-Videos, TA smile

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COOL, LOOK FORWARD TO DUMPING IT THEN.  big_smile

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Its playable on an emulator, but not on a dreamcast, as far as i know

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High my 1st NAOMI GD-Rom arrived to day, in mint condition. And I'm wanting to dump it.  smile

Should I dump it the same as a Dreamcast GD-Rom, does anyone know.

Ok thanks, ps: does that mean I cant install it to my cousins computer using the images and daemon.