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Thanks that works. I got the drive offset from the calculations in my dic logs and got the same results.

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Or worked, rather. This worn out plextor was only able to spin up one disc and now it's giving me 5 green blinks or 2 ambers every time Bad luck.

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update: got 2 more disc offsets today before it became pissy again

^^^^ pretty much

Once something falls off the second page it's in No Mod's Land.

@ssjkakaroto  If there is something specific you want them to look at, try PMing one of the mods. Sometimes perfectly valid dumps fall through the cracks and they'll add them if you bring them to their attention.

Requesting a cleanrip update to add a bca only option could save a lot of time & drive wear & would give you a chance to ask about the freeloader problem.

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They should change my name to IdeaMan. I don't actually do stuff I only come up with the ideas. Nobody listens to them for some reason. Maybe they are bad ideas. BadIdeasMan.

Custom title?

Thanks for the responses, Fireball. I didn't realize the situation was like this.

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I'm not going to bother reading the other posts cause I'm done with this thread- too much scarey quotes but here's a different idea I thought up.

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Why don't one of you geeks make a little dotnet program that has forms needed for verification and saves the data you entered into a xml database.

Then you could zip up the database with any logs / scans and post it. The mods could then use the same program to review the data you entered.

It's not as good as full redump integration but let's be realistic here. And advanced versions could eventually be better integrated by scraping redump or open a link to a mod edit page.

Not a programmer? If everyone with a zillion verifications pitched in the price of a few games you could pay someone around here to do it at a cut rate.

...Or you can keep trying to threat^H^H^H^H^H^H cajole iRobot / the mods into doing it for free and on your schedule.

^^^  You think a few years is bad? (Well it kinda is but) SPS literally has unprocessed dumps from over a decade. now THAT'S a stagnant project!

So please don't let the frustration get to you, redump deserves some constructive criticism but we still have to accept that the methods are not likely to change and they will never add new mods (nitpicker's corner: outside of an established pool of people that come and go) so the bottlenecks and backlogs are just something we have to live with.

redump ain't perfect but they're still 10,000x more productive than SPS and infinitely more transparent than wrongrip.

I think it's o.k. to nudge them a little bit from time to time like we're doing right now as long as you can keep from getting frustrated if nothing changes.

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RE: Your 300+ verifications, try making them EXCITING so they'll get processed fast! For dvds I think the best you can do to make them less boring is post pics/scans especially closeups of the ringcodez. For ps2 cd games submitting subdump logs will get the cuesheet marked green... excitement factor 1000!

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I agree on this, I dumped many games but I never bothered posting verifications unless I had something important to add like ringcodes or different versions.

But when I wrote that last bit, I wasn't actually thinking about verifications but rather those 2 year old "new" dumps with 0 replies on the last few pages like

http://forum.redump.org/topic/14694/ibm … australia/
http://forum.redump.org/topic/14633/wii … rd-france/
http://forum.redump.org/topic/14064/ibm … on-v11425/
http://forum.redump.org/topic/14062/ibm … -new-disc/
http://forum.redump.org/topic/13965/ibm … bmissions/

Those are just a sample of the ones with 0 replies. They may be crap dumps but without an explanation who is to know? My biggest personal gripe isn't with the database software or slowness but the lack of feedback / education / training. I think that's what this old friend was getting at. I guess it doesn't matter any more now with new acct creation ended.

nitpicker's corner: Some of those dumps may not be "new" any more now that 2 years have passed. It's been so long a few have turned into verifications

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ps egen wanna know how many active "mods" SPS has? 1.25

DIC logs are not really needed for certain types of discs like console DVD5 or unprotected single-track CDs.

The way things work may not make complete sense but that's because the submission system wasnt designed for the current dumping/ver. rules and it's not gonna change.

Forum posts are better anyway cause you get more scrutiny and can attach more data/notes (and logs) than a form would allow. Theoretically it produces better quality ringcodes and other metadata too. The downside is you may have to wait a few months/years for a mod to get around to processing them. Or they won't touch it for some reason and it stays there forever and you don't know why... oh well.

Here is one way to make it easier on every body.

Add a recent changes history like you have for the recent dumps. Make it easy to quickly identify whats changed. Make it visible to everyone (or at least reg users) and put it on the homepage along with the recent dumps.

Now you have easy oversight and more transparency to the changes made. Therefore you can afford to add more mods. Maybe do temporary stints so people with a lot of crap decaying in the forums can take care of it themselves. It becomes easy to monitor one or two new/temporary mods with the above changes.

If someone makes a mistake or oversteps their bounds PM them.

If someone makes a questionable change then make a forum post and discuss it. The current system is backwards.

(Yea yea iRobot is too busy to do web coding right now I know. But it's a good idea for future I think)

In my limited experience, Nintendo's 3-letter region codes aren't very consistent.

I know there are multilingual UKV games which suggests they were intended for Europe rather than UK only, but who knows for sure.

I've got one multilingual EUV game. Not sure if that's supposed to be the same V as in UKV, or what the difference is if any from EUR.

Both USA & USZ covers will say they are for "USA, Canada, Mexico and Latin America." Many American games don't show a region code at all but still say the same thing, although they usually don't have the trilingual back cover like USA/USZ do.

The rare MDE code is for Singapore, Malaysia, UAE, Saudia Arabia. How you get MDE from that is beyond me..

So who knows what the V or Z stand for really, or whether they are reliable for determining the actual region of publication. It is an interesting topic though. Please post if you discover a definitive answer.

Those would be appropriate for the wiki lists

I don't know who you'd have to bug to get them added though...

Someone needs to grant this guy mod status STAT!

NB: there are three editions of Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence

Original, Limited Edition, Essential

with 2, 3, and 1 discs respectively. Database is missing Original for the first two discs.

The last one is easy to recognize, but as far as I can tell the first two have identical double-disc keepcases (the third disc is in a seperate case for LE.) The discs look the same as well, from pix online. No difference in SLUS codes. That red image you see associated with LE is the box.

Bottom line, there might not be any way to tell 100% between Original and LE unless you bought it new (which I didn't).

They're almost certainly identical but if you're going to go to the trouble of redumping both the subsistence discs again make sure you know the purchase history.

Also I noticed there is one other USA edition of MGS3 not in the database

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Premium Package)

Again almost certainly identical but worth redumping and documenting for completeness sake.