> > I think they do not have copy protection in the CDs. I have "UltraISO" to create
> .iso
> > and .cue files. Old DOS games were not copy protected.
> >
> > I think "Time Commando" have CD audio tracks but UltraISO can create .iso file with
> > all tracks easily. If you install this game on HDD and use a cr@cked .exe, not
> having
> > the CD inserted, the music doesn't play but game works.
>
> As long as they are dumped as 2352 bytes per sector (not 2048 bytes) as with PSX
> games it should be fine. Any games with multiple tracks (usually audio after the data
> track, but some CDs can have multiple data tracks as well) will most likely need a
> Plextor drive of some sort so that the gap length is preserved.
>
> Just about all of my PC CDs were refused over at redump.org on the counts that I
> didn't have a Plextor, despite all of them being single track CDs which matched over
> multiple drives and even verified other redump sets in multiple cases (the others
> were all new dumps which weren't on redump at all). The others were refused on the
> counts that PC software didn't qualify as video games so they weren't included
> either. It's their loss in the long run, most of it got eBayed after that.
it's not "their loss" it "everybody's loss" and a blow to preservation.
policies such as "don't include applications" are really quite damaging, and you should have just submitted your images somewhere else, such as MAME for example.
at least with MAME it's possible to say policies are correct on such things, and the project is happy to document games alongside utilities (and likewise machines that were only for play, alongside machines that had no games at all) Nothing is going to get lost / left behind as a result of a MAME policy on issues like this as long as people remember to submit them.
preserving old media etc. is a high priority task as much of it is starting to fail, not one that should come down to "was it fun to play"
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