sarami wrote:

I reported this protection before. http://forum.redump.org/post/54050/#p54050
0xd8 dumping can get the string that is recorded in the disc. But redump db adopts the result of the 0xbe dumping less error count.

Are there C2 errors when dumping this protection?
And what's the explanation for the lower error count? Is the drive correcting bytes in 1 sector when using 0xbe?

The best route might be to find a CodeLock game that's already dumped on eBay US and see if you can verify that. The drive that can verify another dump should also produce a correct dump of the US Tropico. If the error count is the same as your current dump (and twice that of the Europe release) then it could be explained by different mastering.

http://redump.org/discs/quicksearch/cod … ction/only

Surely there's some cheap ones on medimops.de also if you search for the barcodes there (without spaces), but I don't know if they're shipping again to the US (they restricted it because of COVID).

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@sarami any way to get BCA data from gamecube discs with a PC drive?

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Thx.. same bug perhaps? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pM0Kmb … 6CCAd/view
http://redump.org/disc/73323/

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Here's 3 logs with bad multisession cuesheets. Is this a bug that is already fixed or a new one?

https://www109.zippyshare.com/v/qX1iHqXW/file.html
https://www109.zippyshare.com/v/j0cYXyUz/file.html
https://www109.zippyshare.com/v/WqOmxrW7/file.html

And this CD-i dump seems to dump correctly with non-plextor and IsoBuster, but messes up with DIC + Plextor:
https://www29.zippyshare.com/v/iP7DufIh/file.html

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sarami wrote:
Jackal wrote:

No, not replaced with 0x55 but they can be "cleaned" somehow. I think the sectors match surrounding sectors except for the random error bytes which need to be cleaned so that they match (besides header). Perhaps it can be accomplished by rereading sectors and keeping the bytes that are most consistent between reads.

Ok, but who guarantees the kept bytes is correct?

If the sectors after "cleaning" the random errors all have data that matches the data in the previous or next sector, it's pretty safe.

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sarami wrote:
rosewood wrote:

Is there anything that be done about this problem or did I miss the solution?

The problem may be that there is not EDC in LBA 16. Perhaps it can read using 0xbe, not 0xa8. I don't fix it yet.

Neon Beast wrote:

The installed game will have these two files

There are some cab and hdr files in the disc. If they are Microsoft cabinet files, you need to use /mscf to detect DiscGuard.
The protection of 7K2 was detected as DiscGuard.

Detected a protected file [IOSLINK.VXD]. LBA 302 to 330
Jackal wrote:

I think there were some sectors without EDC where the random errors needed to be cleaned manually.

According to the 3 logs of Neon Beast, LBA 299 to 1498 do not have EDC. These should be replaced to 0x55 like SafeDisc?

No, not replaced with 0x55 but they can be "cleaned" somehow. I think the sectors match surrounding sectors except for the random error bytes which need to be cleaned so that they match (besides header). Perhaps it can be accomplished by rereading sectors and keeping the bytes that are most consistent between reads.

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Neon Beast wrote:

Hi, I have this Chinese release of Heroes of Might and Magic III, I got two copies with identical ring codes, but hashes don't match, and I can't get a consistent dump. It has DiscGuard protection, don't know if this is causing the problem.
Dumped with the latest test build.
Logs: https://mega.nz/folder/XzB3SYyL#0g-CNMwckW9kQgmEFv-iRQ

DiscGuard needs a special treatment. I think there were some sectors without EDC where the random errors needed to be cleaned manually. Maybe reentrant remembers.

http://redump.org/discs/quicksearch/dis … tion/only/

Neon Beast wrote:

I tried on this one, but IsoBuster still not working.

You need to open the .cue directly with IsoBuster. The screenshots shows an Alcohol drive as source and not the cuesheet.

Can you post a screenshot?

MrPepka wrote:

Oh, for the sake of clarity, those malfunctioning drives are the ones below:
http://redump.org/disc/69762/
http://redump.org/disc/69693/

Again, both dumps are fine. No errors and everything reads fine.

REM SESSION 01
FILE "Wszystko Gra - Gazeta Uczy i Bawi - Kwiecien 2002 (Poland) (Track 1).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "Wszystko Gra - Gazeta Uczy i Bawi - Kwiecien 2002 (Poland) (Track 2).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 00:00:00
    INDEX 01 00:02:00
FILE "Wszystko Gra - Gazeta Uczy i Bawi - Kwiecien 2002 (Poland) (Track 3).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 00:00:00
    INDEX 01 00:02:00
REM SESSION 02
FILE "Wszystko Gra - Gazeta Uczy i Bawi - Kwiecien 2002 (Poland) (Track 4).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 04 MODE2/2352
    PREGAP 02:32:00
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
REM SESSION 01
FILE "FrogMan + Tajemnicza Wyspa (Poland) (Track 1).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
REM SESSION 02
FILE "FrogMan + Tajemnicza Wyspa (Poland) (Track 2).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 02 MODE2/2352
    PREGAP 02:32:00
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

Neon Beast wrote:

Hi, I have some multisession CDs that have data track in session 2, I can mount cuesheets with Alcohol but not the ccd file, and I can't get access to session 2, also IsoBuster fails to identify them as multisession CDs. I tried your method with no luck, am I doing it wrong? Here are some of un-modified cuesheets

You need to download the cuesheets from redump. The ones that are generated by the dumping tool aren't compatible. And then add the PREGAP 02:32:00 line like above.

MrPepka wrote:

I checked the CD Maniak Wydanie Specjalne 2/2008 and there, adding a PREGAP line to the cue file does nothing, IsoBuster still doesn't detect files on this CD (except for the fairy tale on the audio track).

There are no problems here:

REM SESSION 01
FILE "CD Maniak Wydanie Specjalne 2-2008 (Poland) (Track 1).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
REM SESSION 02
FILE "CD Maniak Wydanie Specjalne 2-2008 (Poland) (Track 2).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 02 MODE2/2352
    PREGAP 02:32:00
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

https://i.imgur.com/D9yIko5.png

I checked a CD from Gazeta Wyborcza (the one with the Speedway Championship game, for example)

You'll have to be more specific and provide a link to the disc.

The dumps themselves should all be fine and there's no sign of any corruption.

Someone pointed out in Discord that the multisession cuesheets for IBM PC aren't functional. It's true that virtual drive software like Daemon Tools doesn't support multisession cue's, but IsoBuster also fails to parse the filesystem correctly when loading the .cue.

The problem is that IsoBuster assumes that SESSION 02 starts the sector after SESSION 01 ends, but in fact there's 11400 sectors in between the sessions that aren't included in the image.

So to fill this void we would need to add this line to the cuesheet: PREGAP 02:32:00

Mounts with Daemon Tools without error (but no multisession). Opens in IsoBuster and parses filesystem correctly:

REM SESSION 01
FILE "Bajki na CD 5-2008 (Poland) (Track 1).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
REM SESSION 02
FILE "Bajki na CD 5-2008 (Poland) (Track 2).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 02 MODE2/2352
    PREGAP 02:32:00
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

Default redump .cue: Mounts with Daemon tools and opens with IsoBuster, but the disc size is 11400 sectors too short and IsoBuster is unable to show the correct filesystem for session 2, because it's missing the area between the 2 sessions:

REM SESSION 01
FILE "Bajki na CD 5-2008 (Poland) (Track 1).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
REM SESSION 02
FILE "Bajki na CD 5-2008 (Poland) (Track 2).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 02 MODE2/2352
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

IMO iR0b0t should add the PREGAP 02:32:00 line for generated multisession CD cuesheets, so that we at least can access the session 2 filesystem with the correct start address and have the correct disc length.

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sarami wrote:
Jackal wrote:

Can the shifted offset be explained by ASUS drive or a Linux bug?

I have no idea about it. Which sector is shifted?

The audio data is shifted 1 sample (4 bytes) between the 2 dumps.

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@sarami could you have a look at this plz: http://forum.redump.org/post/93954/#p93954

Can the shifted offset be explained by ASUS drive or a Linux bug?

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sarami wrote:
NovaAurora wrote:

Same # of errors reported, same hashes.

These errors are all lead-in sectors of the 2nd session. DIC does not support generating ecc/edc yet when unreadable sectors are generated.

The problem is that EccEdc is checking the .img image and is reporting errors on the area that isn't included in the splitted .bin dump.
EccEdc should always scan only the .bin data tracks and nothing else.
We also get discs where it reports 225 errors but this is actually 3 seconds scrambled data inside the audio Track02.

And you get bogus "errors" like this inside audio tracks:
LBA[019483, 0x04c1b], audio
LBA[019484, 0x04c1c], MSF[00:00:00], zero sync
LBA[019485, 0x04c1d], audio

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IMHO audio tracks made with Asus and positive offset discs should be temp banned unless fully resolved smile

Positive write offset or combined offset?

@sarami any theory on why the offset might be shifted with 1 sample?

Nexy is gone so I guess we either need a Plextor dump from the new dumper or someone else to confirm (the disc is on ebay)

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DopefishJustin submitted a verification for this disc: http://redump.org/disc/65563/

The audio tracks all seem to the data starting 4 bytes later than Nexy's Plextor dump. So the offset difference is 1 sample.

It was dumped with ASUS BW-16D1HT . Logs: http://interbutt.com/misc/WARCRAFT2_X_logs.zip

We need to know if this is a problem with the ASUS drives. I've warned before that we can't really trust them because it's all just experimental and never fully tested, yet DIC keeps supporting them and now perhaps the DB is being filled with bad dumps that are done with these drives.

edit: And here another ASUS dump: http://forum.redump.org/post/89943/#p89943 where all tracks match this dump http://redump.org/disc/71231/ except the last track. Could it be cut off data? Or just a different pressing?

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sarami wrote:
reentrant wrote:

Anyway I have some good news. After some coding and experimenting with F1 command I can enable reading more sectors from cache.

Great works!!

Added your code and some changed. Test Plz. http://www.mediafire.com/file/eq80y20l9 … st.7z/file

I'm not a coder, but it seems like you are trying to combine sectors from cache reads based on the assumption that they are all data sectors with correct sync/header? How will it handle audio sectors or mastering errors safely?

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Agent47 wrote:

Quake redumped with latest test version: https://mega.nz/file/bzBjGCJK#U0WD3bymv … 03o5wnvhFs

But why should Track04 be 02:00 ? @F1ReB4LL?

Especially when discs without MCN have the same 01:73 gaps: http://redump.org/disc/2251/

And if this fix is valid, it means that we have to recheck/redump every dump with a new version?

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sarami wrote:

P and Q-channel of the track02 of Hexen are estimated that it matches because all P and Q-channel of the other track match. As a result, 021027 belongs to the track02.
P and Q-channel of the track04 of Quake are estimated that it does not match because all P and Q-channel of the other track don't match. As a result, 050680 belongs to the track03.

So the logic before the 2020-11-01 version was to look at P-channel when Q-channel wasn't available? I agree with F1ReB4LL that it's best to stick with this logic, unless there is such a thing as a P-Q offset tongue

I don't understand the new fix. With the new fix, the Quake track04 pregap would become 02:00? This seems wrong, when the other tracks are all 01:74.

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- fixed: output incorrect pregap when Q-channel's pregap is 00:01:74 and the adr of 00:01:74 is 2(MCN) or 3(ISRC)

I'm lost now

This new version produced the same (bad?) dump as old versions (from 2019 and earlier) for this disc: http://redump.org/disc/25734/

"01:74 is wrong, because the P and Q gaps are in sync and P-channel shows 00:02:00 gap there"

That disc was the reason that we were rechecking everything: http://forum.redump.org/topic/31979/wro … he-damage/

New logs: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ … 0/Hexen.7z

So please tell us. How to identify possible bad dumps and which version should be used to redump them? And this new fix is invalid?

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Very strange difference. Same ringcode, 2 different dumps:

http://redump.org/disc/25734/ - logs from 2017: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ce4b73luc … fo.7z/file and 2019: http://www.mediafire.com/file/qonu94lfb … se.7z/file (.cue not included but matches db)

http://redump.org/disc/73543/ - new logs: http://www.mediafire.com/file/pkf96uk40 … en.7z/file + http://www.mediafire.com/file/1nw1uf9iy … ck.7z/file (slower speed and /s 2)

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PC game giving all audio tracks: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WtnX2a … sp=sharing

http://forum.redump.org/post/84049/#p84049

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user7 wrote:

green key is the production crypto key, it's what they use to encrypt the XVDs for production. there's also the red key which they use for development that all devs have

https://github.com/emoose/xvdtool
is the tool to use supposedly :shrug:

So this is for Xbox One, not Xbox neutral