{"id":223,"date":"2016-01-29T14:11:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T21:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T21:21:29","slug":"backing-up-old-optical-game-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Backing up old optical game formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many older games released on optical media employed copy-protection measures that make it very difficult to back them up.\u00a0 This is a listing of the scenes that rip and preserve them, with opinions about the merits of each courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/romshepherd.com\/index.php\/topic,2011.msg17891.html#msg17891\" target=\"_blank\">Rom Sheppard.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A work in progress:<\/p>\n<table width=\"2002\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100\">3DO<\/td>\n<td width=\"112\">TOSEC-ISO<\/td>\n<td width=\"1790\">A huge collection of verified dumps, certainly the most detailed 3DO set around ATM. Disc format is simple, so you are losing nothing compared to newer methods.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CD32\/CDTV<\/td>\n<td>TOSEC-ISO<\/td>\n<td>Again a massive and almost complete collection<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CD-i<\/td>\n<td>TOSEC-ISO<\/td>\n<td>In terms of regular discs, TOSEC-ISO again has the most exhaustive collection on the net. Regarding movie discs and CD-i Ready, Trurip, since the former were conciously not added to TOSEC-ISO, while the latter is a strange format not supported by other dumping systems. But they still haven&#8217;t appeared in public&#8230;looks likely to change soon though&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PSX<\/td>\n<td>Redump<\/td>\n<td>A huge and almost complete collection. Drawback that the relatively few Libcrypt games need additional files to support them properly, so I&#8217;d prefer Trurip for those.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PS2<\/td>\n<td>Redump<\/td>\n<td>Only Redump handles this ATM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gamecube<\/td>\n<td>Redump<\/td>\n<td>Only Redump handles this ATM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Xbox<\/td>\n<td>Redump<\/td>\n<td>Only Redump handles this ATM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DC<\/td>\n<td>TOSEC-ISO<\/td>\n<td>TOSEC-ISO has the most updated and complete collection of verified dumps. Trurip comes close (most dumps are identical since dumping method for GD-ROMs is the same and I share dumping info between TOSEC-ISO and Trurip, matter of naming choice only there) but it also supports MilCD (unhandled by other methods) and includes a few unverified dumps that won&#8217;t be added to TOSEC-ISO until verified. But Trurip tends to lag behind when it comes to new additions to the dat.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SegaCD<\/td>\n<td>Trurip<\/td>\n<td>Trurip&#8230;high quality and almost complete.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Saturn<\/td>\n<td>Redump<\/td>\n<td>Redump has a huge collection in all regions. Trurip might have won for higher overall quality if it wasn&#8217;t so lacking in the US set.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PCE<\/td>\n<td>Trurip<\/td>\n<td>Trurip all the way<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PC-FX<\/td>\n<td>Trurip<\/td>\n<td>Trurip all the way<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>NEOGEO*CD<\/td>\n<td>Trurip<\/td>\n<td>Trurip is more accurate and thorough than anybody else.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jaguar CD<\/td>\n<td>Trurip<\/td>\n<td>Trurip all the way<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PC<\/td>\n<td>Redump<\/td>\n<td>Redump is massive&#8230;if you can find it anywhere&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many older games released on optical media employed copy-protection measures that make it very difficult to back them up.\u00a0 This is a listing of the scenes that rip and preserve them, with opinions about the merits of each courtesy of Rom Sheppard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,2,3],"tags":[61,62,60,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}