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Help dumping unlicensed PS2 discs
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 5:02 pm
by Enker
I have 3 unlicensed PS2 discs: Swap Magic 3.6 CD & DVD, and a GameShark disc. All of these discs only dump about 6% before I get an unreadable sector error. None of the discs are scratched and they all stop at 6%, so they all must have some kind of protection. I've tried dumping them with all of my drives and none of them can dump more than 6%. Does anyone know what could be causing this to happen?
Re: Help dumping unlicensed PS2 discs
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 5:50 pm
by iR0b0t
They ARE protected, leave them out.
Re: Help dumping unlicensed PS2 discs
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 6:08 pm
by Enker
I figured they were. So, discs with protection like this can't be dumped?
Re: Help dumping unlicensed PS2 discs
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 8:23 am
by Rocket
I have a same problem with my Code Breaker disc.
Re: Help dumping unlicensed PS2 discs
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 10:23 am
by Nexy
If they are CD's use CloneCD, use the same profile as is posted for SafeDisc for PC.
Re: Help dumping unlicensed PS2 discs
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 2:19 pm
by Enker
The CloneCD profile didn't help, it still won't dump the discs. One of mine is a DVD, so I think they all use the same weird protection. The discs seem to include retail game data, so they must do some trickery to boot on the PS2.
Re: Help dumping unlicensed PS2 discs
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 4:24 pm
by Nexy
Scan the data side of the disc at high-resolution and post a pic somewhere. We might be able to get some idea's from that.
Re: Help dumping unlicensed PS2 discs
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 5:09 pm
by Enker
I don't have access to a scanner right now, but I can tell you that each disc has a small section outside of the ringcode section in the data area that is a different shade from the rest of the disc's data area. The Swap Magic discs also have a lot of little rings that run through the data area. Here's a
page with a small picture of a Swap Magic disc.
Here's a
page about how the discs work, maybe it can help?
Re: Help dumping unlicensed PS2 discs
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:49 am
by Enker
I finally got access to a scanner, so here are the disc scans:
GameShark 2 V1.2 CD
Swap Magic 3.6 CD
Swap Magic 3.6 DVD
Re: Help dumping unlicensed PS2 discs
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:15 am
by jethro_napoleon
I always thought that those discs were impossible to properly burn/copy because they're pressed (at the factory, just like some content on a regular ps2 dvd, which isn't readable -- i might be saying a lot of shit, all i know is what've read here and there).
If those discs can be dumped, even though they're no interest to the Redump project, please let me know of a preservation-proof method. I have SM3.xx Pal and a Memorex (can't recall the version, but I believe it's from Codebreakers).
I haven't tried to dump with any tools in the Redump Guide, but back in the days I haven't had any success using dvd decripter, imgburn and anydvd (those were my tools, back then).