That's what I'm interested in as well-- False alarm then. Thank you for the explanation. I will edit my post and leave a note in red text to ignore what I had to say, as well as link to your post.Starshadow wrote:The video data is definitely present and accounted for in a Redump dump. Redump XBOX 1 and 360 dumps are basically SplitVid ONLY. The layer 1 half of the video data is only present on layer 1 of the dump (after the game partition). This matches the physical layout of the data on the disc. XDVDMulleter is not expecting this, and wants the layer 1 half of the video data to be copied into layer 0 (appended to the end of layer 0 video data). Redump doesn't do that because it doesn't match the original disc, and that's what we're interested in recording. But, if you patch in the SS, PFI, and DMI files and your drive firmware understands SplitVid, you should be able to do what you want with the dump regardless of what XDVDMulleter says about the video data. I have done it before.
I knew SplitVid was the "way to go" when creating X360 dumps (and I assumed that it was because it matched the original disc), however I did not realize Xbox 1 dumps are structured the same. This confusion highlights a problem that unfortunately plagues the 360, and that problem is most of the software related to it is out of date. I knew this was true of Schtrom360Extract and Xbox Backup Creator, but did not expect XDVDMulleter to be in the same boat (why I didn't think so is beyond me).
All of the above is exactly why I think this thread deserves extra praise-- IMHO FreeCell and ss_sector_range are a godsend in this sea of broken/out-of-date software. Personally I can't wait until DiscImageCreator is up to par with FreeCell. Seems it doesn't preserve random padding, and this time I'm certain I mean random padding. Using the following command only produced a 2.6GB image for my retail copy of Halo 2: "DiscImageCreator.exe xbox J: Halo2.iso". So I suspect either a glitch occured due to read errors, or DIC doesn't do random padding. I'll give it a shot with a disc that has been recently resurfaced and see if that helps.
In any case, I'm happy to know now that Redump Xbox 1 dumps are as accurate as they are. That's all I wanted from the very beginning.
