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How to dump ring-protected DVD games?
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 11:05 am
by Lugamo
I have a copy of a Spanish DVD re-release of
Patrician III, which according to Alcohol 120% has ring protection between the sectors 478720 and 508463. I tried using the --help command via PowerShell, but it only flashes for a split second before closing. I've used the following command, without much success:
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CDArchive.exe --mode=ext --extrdiscmode=dvd --extrdrive=F --extrsectdir="M:\CDArchive\Patrician III" --extrstart=0 --extrend=1046592 --exttrefcue="M:\CDArchive\Patrician III\IMAGE.cue"
I replaced the "0" with 478720 and 478000, and "1046592" with 508463 and 509000. In all instances, the program flashes, and never shows any text.
The .cue file has this format:
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FILE "FILE.ISO" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE3/2048
INDEX 01 00:00:00
For the record, the volume label is "Patrician III". How should I proceed? The optical drives I have are a LG WH14NS40 and a Plextor PX-755A. In addition, I have Spanish FX Interactive releases of
Patrician IV and
Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper.
Re: How to dump ring-protected DVD games?
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:27 am
by Lugamo
I have been trying to dump
Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper, which according to Alcohol 120% has ring protection between the sectors 461733 and 493055. Thanks to (I think) a tutorial to fix the "This app has been blocked for your protection" error, now CDArchive no longer flashes.
I tried using the following command:
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CDArchive.exe --mode=ext --extrdiscmode=dvd --extrdrive=F --extrsectdir="I:\CDArchive\SH5" --extrstart=461733 --extrend=493055 --extrrefcue="I:\CDArchive\SH5\SH5.cue"
The .cue file has this format:
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FILE "SH5.ISO" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE3/2048
INDEX 01 00:00:0
However, I still get the following error:
What can I do?
Re: How to dump ring-protected DVD games?
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:44 am
by reentrant
Maybe you forgot to set corect current directory? 2 - error file not found. I'd also select different directory for extracted sectors...
Re: How to dump ring-protected DVD games?
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:59 am
by Lugamo
reentrant wrote:Maybe you forgot to set corect current directory? 2 - error file not found.
Indeed, I did. I forgot to include the folder "ISO". I can't believe I've made such a basic mistake.
The new command being:
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CDArchive.exe --mode=ext --extrdiscmode=dvd --extrdrive=F --extrsectdir="I:\CDArchive\ISO\SH5" --extrstart=461733 --extrend=493055 --extrrefcue="I:\CDArchive\ISO\SH5\SH5.cue"
However, this did not work, and I still get the same error.
reentrant wrote:I'd also select different directory for extracted sectors...
Is enough to extract them in a different folder outside of "I:\CDArchive" within the I:\ partition or it would be better to have them extracted in a different partition or hard disk?
Edit: Tried three options ["I:\ISO\SH5\SH5.cue", "M:\ISO\SH5\SH5.cue" (different partition, same disk), "J:\ISO\SH5\SH5.cue" (different partition and disk)], neither worked out.
Re: How to dump ring-protected DVD games?
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2024 12:41 am
by Lugamo
I am ashamed to say this, but until I read
this post, I thought that CDArchive was to be used on its own to dump ring-protected DVD games, given that it is the only program mentioned in the
DVD section of the article.
I dumped Patrician III: El imperio de los mares with CloneCD and DiscImageCreator, and in general terms the range of the ring seems to cover the sectors 478738-508447.
The original CloneCD image did not have anything between the sectors 478720-478737 and 508448-508480. I got the missing sectors with CDArchive that will be attached to this post. DiscImageCreator did obtain data for those sectors, however. Should I re-read the 478738-508447 sectors? How many retries should I do?
Re: How to dump ring-protected DVD games?
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2024 3:03 pm
by reentrant
Hi,
There's no limit for number of retries. I usually specified 10 retries not to hammer the drive much...
Re: How to dump ring-protected DVD games?
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2024 3:15 pm
by Lugamo
reentrant wrote:Hi,
There's no limit for number of retries. I usually specified 10 retries not to hammer the drive much...
I was interested in a minimum because the ring covers 29K sectors. I settled for 3 retries, which I hope is enough. So far, the last sector re-read (in reverse) was 486603, once I'm done I'm submitting the dump.