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Which is the first sector with errors? Which is the range of errors that CloneCD returned?

Really? That's odd.

Dumping ringed DVDs with DiscImageCreator is somewhat complex, but feasible in my experience. The method I personally use is the following:

• Start a normal dump and stop it once it starts to fail.

• Once you get the first LBA with errors (it differs in every disc), you have to find the specific file tied to it.  In order to find the appropiate file, you can use the *_volDesc.txt file from your ill-fated DiscImageCreator dump, or use IsoBuster (the free version will work just fine).

• Once you find the file, you need to add its name to the "ReadErrorProtect.txt" file. It's very important for the file you think it's the first one to have errors to be first on the list.

• Start a new dump with the following flags: /rr X /sf /sk Y. X is the amount of retries (I suggest 20 or 30) you want DiscImageCreator to do before it skips the amount of sectors specified in Y (which should be the amount of sectors you think the ring may cover —which I usually find with CloneCD and Alcohol 120%, which aren't a viable option in this case— plus 100 or more sectors, just to be safe, DiscImageCreator will skip the amount of specified sectors until it finds a good one, then it will read in reverse until it finds another sector which fails the amount of re-reads you've specified and then it will continue reading forward). Once a new dump starts, a message in the console along the lines of "Detected protection [File] LBA * to *" should pop-up. If the first sectors with errors is NOT in that range, you picked the wrong file, and it WILL produce a bad dump.

I complemented this with a CloneCD dump refined with CDArchive while dumping Patrician III: Imperio de los Mares, with both matching.

If I'm not mistaken, the second one (which is exclusive to Redumper CD dumps) is meant to be useful for Redump mods because it counts the C2 errors a dump has that are not part of a copy protection. Here's the GitHub issue that caused that addition.

Redump does not take CD-keys. The serial for the manual (which seems to be 300020796) is useful, however. You may also specify the region of this specific release, even if in the database still figures Europe.

Based on the scans you've provided, the submission information for the first disc should probably include:

    Disc Serial: 30020792

Data Side Mastering Code (laser branded/etched): sonopress<tab>51342491/5003734<tab>S<tab>21
Data Side Mastering SID Code: IFPI LB47
Data Side Mould SID Code: (REQUIRED, IF EXISTS)
Data Side Additional Mould: (REQUIRED, IF EXISTS)
Label Side Mould SID Code: (REQUIRED, IF EXISTS)

    Barcode: 4 012160 346054
    Comments:

[T:UID] 300020788 (Cover), 300020796 (Manual)

UID is the site code for Ubisoft ID. You can find the special site codes here.

The distance between the "5003734" and the "S" is the same between the "S" and the "21", in my opinion. Given that a Mould SID appears in the scan of the second disc (IFPI 07S4), but not the first one, I'm going to suppose that it does not have it, which is also the case of another disc already present in the database.

Just in case, this disc is a verification of this entry, and once you're ready to submit it, you should do so via the Verifications forum, linking the entry with which your disc image matches.

Understood, thanks.

Another release, but the question is very much the same, and this time there is elegible content beyond any doubt. I recently acquired a Billiken Compu release with two discs. One of them has BHunter, and the other disc has an (expired by now) evaluation for Microsoft Encarta 2001. Are both discs elegible for Redump or just the first one? Photograph attached.

Between 20240101 and 20240401 DiscImageCreator changed how it creates .cue files from being based on subchannel information to being based on the TOC (more context in this issue). Those logs were made with 20230606, does this happen with the latest stable version?

http://redump.org/disc/113764/

Dumping this disc has matching results between DiscImageCreator and Redumper, but DiscImageCreator throws 75 errors for some reason, whereas Redumper does not. Do you know what could have caused this behaviour? It's nothing important, since it's a correct dump, it's just curiosity.

I have been trying to dump Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper, which according to Alcohol 120% has ring protection between the sectors 461733 and 493055. Thanks to (I think) a tutorial to fix the "This app has been blocked for your protection" error, now CDArchive no longer flashes.
I tried using the following command:

CDArchive.exe --mode=ext --extrdiscmode=dvd --extrdrive=F --extrsectdir="I:\CDArchive\SH5" --extrstart=461733 --extrend=493055 --extrrefcue="I:\CDArchive\SH5\SH5.cue"

The .cue file has this format:

FILE "SH5.ISO" BINARY
 TRACK 01 MODE3/2048
   INDEX 01 00:00:0

However, I still get the following error:

Error extracting sectors: 2

What can I do?