MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: DU: Zombies and bingo

This is a WIP but depending on who you ask, there are multiple methods and I think mamedev will accept more than 1 dumping method and some of this info extracted is only currently used by some groups and not mamedev. Nobody send me tech questions, just take it or leave it or ask F1ReB4LL. If you want to send in a dump you can rar it all up and up it to a host like mega and send me the link and the credits and I can make sure it gets sent out to several mamedevs and people in various preservation groups.

PC CD Game Dumping - The Full Monty Version 0.0 (alpha)
info: F1ReB4LL
editing: Smitdogg

There are multiple ways to dump a PC CD. This is an extensive preservation effort format constructed by F1ReB4LL to get all the info you could ever need.

Get a Plextor drive from the following list off eBay or other source:
IDE Models: PX-760, PX-755, PX-716, PX-714, PX-712, PX-708, PX-704, Premium2, Premium, PX-W5224, PX-4824, PX-4012
SCSI Models: PX-W4220T, PX-32TS/CS, PX-83CS/85CS, PX-63CS/65CS, PX-43CS 43CE 43CH/45CS 45CE 45CH, DM-3028/5028, DM-3024/5024, DM-3021/5021, DM-3020/5020
708UF is an external version of PX-708, it’s good. SATA models have “A” at the end, they are also fine.

https://github.com/saramibreak/DiscImageCreator/releases
Dump your disc using the “DiscImageCreator.exe cd X: dump 4 /c2” where X: is the letter of your drive. Additionally, you can run it with “DiscImageCreator audio X: TOC-PREGAP 4 -5000 -1100” afterwards to preserve the TOC and the -150 to -1 sectors (pregap).

TOC+pregap contains the last iteration of TOC extracted from the dump and the whole pregap area (MAME may decide to switch to full monty dumps some day). subdump tool:
http://smitdogg.mameworld.info/du/subdump.7z
Try to use the plex_d8.cmd command, the other 3 will be useful for dealing with protected discs (like, reading with the plextor’s 0xD8 command wipes out SecuROM protection sectors, 0xBE should be used for them). Be patient because it reads the disc 5 times before producing a final sub.