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Can you disable the check on Plextor's too if SafeDisc is detected? A lot of SafeDisc games have this error pattern and it is unlikely that any game with SafeDisc will trigger the firmware bug.

I have read 30+ sectors into the lead out with 0xF1, not sure why you can't unless the lead out on your disc doesn't contain many sectors.

960 is correct for that variation of LaserLock. Bare in mind that you'll have to reread the "lone" error sectors in scrambled mode as they are soft errors that are no longer being replaced with 0x55.

In that case first crossflash ASUS-BW-16D1HT-3.10-WM01601-211901041014.bin and then flash desired firmware.

I have investigated further and the command works on the 3.02 firmware for the ASUS BW-16D1HT but fails on 3.10MK. Try downgrading the firmware and it should work.

It is possible to read into the lead-out (~13 sectors or so) on the same Blu-Ray Drives that support BEh (READ CD) with the CD-DA flag by using the vendor command to read into the cache. The command is as follows:

F1 06 xx xx xx xx yy yy yy yy
xx - address to read
yy - length of data to return

Whenever reading a sector of the drive with BEh, that sector and the sectors following it get put into the cache at location 0x00000000. Each sector in the cache is 0xB00 in length. By reading the last sector of the disc, the following lead out sectors will get put into the cache starting at the address 0x00000B00, allowing them to be read with the command. The data returned by the command is formatted as follows (presuming the sector was originally read with the BEh command with CD-DA flag, 001b subchannel bits, and C2 error reporting; I haven't tested with other flags):

0x000-0x92F - Main Channel (Scrambled)
0x930-0x98F - P-W Subchannel
0x990-0x99F - Q Subchannel
0x9A0-0x9A3 - (unknown)
0x9A4-0xAC9 - C2 Error Bits
0xACA-0xB00 - (unknown)

I am not sure what the unknowns are, but this should be enough to allow for full dumping of any CD with these drives: since they could already read into the lead-in and dump discs with a negative combined offset, this method of reading into the lead-out should allow discs with a positive combined offset to be dumped.

@Sarami: Please could you implement this into DiscImageCreator, it would enable dumping for a lot more people who lack Plextors!

Some early PAL and NTSC-U/C PS1 games have a different licensing string

          Licensed  by          Sony Computer Entertainment(Europe)

or

          Licensed  by          Sony Computer Entertainment of America

which is definitely worth noting if you need to detect regions. It shouldn't matter though, since libcrypt probably isn't on any of these early PAL discs.

Bump, KailoKyra has a lot of discs which could be very valuable to redump! Please create an account!

I've submitted feature requests to the two main DC emulators in active development (redream/reicast-libretro). Inolen (the redream developer) says he will add support if "people want it". It's more likely to be implemented when we fully switch over.

How many read retries are required on average?