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I don't have any PSX/PS2 Original DISC, here in Pakistan mostly we only get the pirated discs, can those be used as a dump.

similarly all of my PSX games was downloaded from the internet, thou most of them come from peoples who dumped them from there original disc like fuzzball, The Real Spirit etc. I tried to convert few of those images by loading them in a virtual drive and them redumping them using the guide, and there CRC match with the one in the DB, does this mean i have a good dump now. As some of you may know i am running the complete PSX-JAP Project at UG, and i would like to have the games in proper dumps and compressed using torrentzip. so i want to be sure that the method i used was OK before converting all those images.

PS: i only have tried the data track only.

Regards,
BadSector

BadSector wrote:I don't have any PSX/PS2 Original DISC, here in Pakistan mostly we only get the pirated discs, can those be used as a dump.

similarly all of my PSX games was downloaded from the internet, thou most of them come from peoples who dumped them from there original disc like fuzzball, The Real Spirit etc. I tried to convert few of those images by loading them in a virtual drive and them redumping them using the guide, and there CRC match with the one in the DB, does this mean i have a good dump now. As some of you may know i am running the complete PSX-JAP Project at UG, and i would like to have the games in proper dumps and compressed using torrentzip. so i want to be sure that the method i used was OK before converting all those images.

PS: i only have tried the data track only.

Regards,
BadSector

Yeah, you can convert some of your downloaded images.
The method you used is ok for good dumped ones.
Although, PSX isos on p2p bullshit are often bad dumps, ripped (some scene rls) or hacked(RHP, libcrypt), so it's meanless to convert all of ur isos.

I got some of UG PSX-US to convert them to PSXDB set, and many of them are bad dumps.

Ya i know many of them are not good dumps, but atleast by converting them i will know which one of them are good and which of them are not. also by using torrentzip replacing the bad one will be much easier. also my personal experience show that no of bad JAP dumps are much lower then the US or PAL Dumps.

Also, There are not many JAP Entries in the DB (Only about 300 or so are present), where as i have about 2600+ Images. is there any way which i can use to see if a image might be a good dump, if its entry is not present in the BD.

There's no definite way to find bad dumps, which are not on the DB.
But, at least, you can check your converted .bin with CDmage.

You can check bad sectors with "Action>Scan For Corruption".
When there are bad sectors, your converted .bin is bad dump.
When there are no bad sectors, it must be a good dump, or ripped.

It's not 100% reliable, so the best way is to redump all from original CDs.
It should not be difficult for you to get the originals from ebay, internet-shops.

asapy wrote:It should not be difficult for you to get the originals from ebay, internet-shops.

well it is very difficult,
first PayPal don't work for Pakistan
second not many companies ship to Pakistan. and those who do, they charge like hell.

anyhow thanks a lot for your help, for those games who don't have a entry in the DB yet, and don't have any error i will keep them till a good dump is known, others i will delete.

BadSector wrote:similarly all of my PSX games was downloaded from the internet, thou most of them come from peoples who dumped them from there original disc like fuzzball, The Real Spirit etc.

You can trash all the Real Spirit's images - he used to hack every dump he ever posted on snesorama. We've even tried to submit patches for them to recover their original state. And most of his releases weren't taken from the original discs, but were downloaded from the net.

K, Thanks for the info, i will keep that in mind.

No one has replied about ps2 games yet. they are very cheap here, i can get few if pirated DVD are ok.

There is no need to buy pirate discs for our DB because we are collecting info only from original licensed discs (even in case dumps from pirate and licensed discs are the same).

K, No Problem Just wanted to help

OK, need little help again,

I tried converting my games and about 90% of them worked ok for data track, but i am having problem with the audio track. i mostly get zeros not data. is there any way which i can use to extract the audio track using virtual drives.

second what is this patch thing and how can i make one, i might be able to provide fews if i know how they are created and work. also can i request some patch thou i am not a dumper or not.

last Question, if someone have good knowledge of torrentzip can he tell me that, if i use torrentzip to upload a not yet dumped game as a torrent, and afterward i find my dump is not 100% correct and then i find and replace it with a correct one, do others will need to download the whole game or the corrupt parts only, (If it is not allowed to mentioned torrents here please delete my third question)