- SEGA SATURN & MEGA-CD Dumping Guide - (updated 28-11-2010)

[Teancum]

You can add PX-708UF to that list.

[Rocknroms]

I moved all Panzer Dragoon discussion to dump forums

[Nexy]

You should add what the "header" is, and where to find it, and how to examine it. I have absolutely no clue what you mean.

:EDIT:

Ok figured out is it sector 0 on the disc viewed in ISOBuster

[pnkiller78]

Dump game as in the standard guide, but if you find one of the situations below you have to submit a subchannel dump (.sub) taken only with CloneCD to check possible EAN or mastering errors and / or to determine real pregaps, etc.

How about a little explanation on the sub-channel interpretation?
Maybe an easy scenario (2sec gaps) and the hard ones (1.74sec) and (0sec).

[blooddha]

I have a question. I don t know much about SS game rip. What are the different rev refering to ? If a game has a rev A and B, what does it mean, what is the difference ? Also, several games have an info like 3M, 4M, 10S, etc, what does it mean ?

[F1ReB4LL]

Rev A/Rev B/etc. is described in No-Intro's convention, those are revised versions. The one without any rev marks in the filename is Rev 0 - initial revision aka 1.0, Rev A is like 1.1, Rev B - 1.2, etc. They usually contain small bugfixes, so the one with the highest version number or revision is the best. 3M/4M/10S is for the different matrixes made from different master discs - they often have differently shifted audio (but the same data track), so the dumps differ.

In short -- these come from the ringcodes, so they are used to distinguish the different prints of the same game.

[blooddha]

Thank you for the explanation. I kinda figured for the different REV but I wanted a clear explanation. For the xM, xS stuff, I am not quite sure I got it but it does not really matter.

[F1ReB4LL]

For the xM, xS stuff, I am not quite sure I got it but it does not really matter.

Different pressings of the same version of the game with different checksums. xM, xS, xA, etc. are taken from the ringcode.

[blooddha]

Now I got it all, thanks.

[A Murder of Crows]

Hey guys, is this still the official way to dump Sega Saturn?  I've got a very limited amount of time and need to know asap.

thank you