PSX/PS2 dumping advice

[iR0b0t]

And twice dumping is enough, I personality had never different results on DVDs, it can only happen when you try to dump scratched discs.

[HwitVlf]

Some questions about PS2 submissions:

What is an "Alternative Title"?
What is "Ring"?
Is edk2 the same thing as emule/edonkey calculated by Hashcalc?
How do I calculate DOL MD5?

Thanks

[DJoneK]

Alternative Title would be the Japanese Title for Japanese games.  You can see some examples of this in the database already.  Those have a 2nd title under them.

Ring, is whatever info is written on the inside of the disc.  If you look at them upside down, you'll see that around the inner part of the disc, you'll see some letters and numbers.

edk2 is exactly that.  The hashes reported on emule/edonkey.

DOL MD5 I believe is for Gamecube games (probably Wii?).  Don't quote me on that though.

[HwitVlf]

Thanks DJoneK  
For the 'Ring' number, is there a standard number of digits?
The PS2 Summoner disk I'm looking at has a clear PDSS-000215a1 with a 1 a ways away,
also a small AO4 and a hard to see number something like DAXX-00000881
Are we only looking for the main 12 digit number?

[DJoneK]

My guess is write everything that you find, as it may be added later into the database.  I don't think it matters much how you write them, as long as you separate them..  The way I added mine was
"IFPI L332/PDSS-XXXXXXXXXXX/1/A04" as an example.  If you find any more stuff written, just keep writing it, but make sure you separate them.  Better to have everything now, even if it's useless, than having to go back and get the stuff later down the road.

[HwitVlf]

Ok, sounds good

Yet Another question!! Will it hurt anything if there are blank spaces at the end of hash values on the submission form? I copy/paste the info and sometimes it ends up with spaces in front or behind- unless I manually remove them. Will the spaces get auto-deleted/ignored if I just leave them there, or might they accidentally make it into the dat files and mess things up?