Most decent CD burning apps support the "El Torito" standard for bootable CDs which doesn't use the space allocated by the ISO standard. The image to be loaded at boot time is a normal file in the filesystem.
"Crack the SEGA Saturn copy protection" contest
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Most decent CD burning apps support the "El Torito" standard for bootable CDs which doesn't use the space allocated by the ISO standard. The image to be loaded at boot time is a normal file in the filesystem.
Is the special identifing sega charateristics in sector 1 - 21 are they game dependent or could you copy one from one game and use it for another.
Im guessing with nero this could be burnt using the Boot CD option as it allows you to add a boot sector image which is part of the El Torito standard. Although i know now software off hand that can extract the saturn idenitification image at start of cd.
Yesterday me and a mate used a Matshushita CDrom 581/3 to rip the saturn protection ring. IT looks the same as Kortex's most of the way but differs in some others. It also seems to start in different sector numbers depending on the game. In World Wide Soccer 98 the rip sector started at 297616 but on Madden 97 the start sector was 297833. Lets just hope the security rings arent game specific. Again it could have been the drive we were using it was manufactured in July 1995 so that could explain a lot.
We also were able to do a test burn the security ring onto a CDRW with a game by modifying a CUE file it burnt back successfully. A program was created that would add the security ring data onto the BIN file and this seemed to work, its now trying to see if a CDR will burn back.
Few questions
How Many sectors are on a 74MIN CD / 80 MIN
How many sectors is it for 1 second of audio.
How many sectors is it for 1 second of data.
We also were able to do a test burn the security ring onto a CDRW with a game by modifying a CUE file it burnt back successfully. A program was created that would add the security ring data onto the BIN file and this seemed to work, its now trying to see if a CDR will burn back.
Few questions
How Many sectors are on a 74MIN CD / 80 MIN
How many sectors is it for 1 second of audio.
How many sectors is it for 1 second of data.
Here is a thread on cd capacity.... http://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=135642
Cheers.
Well burnt the ring i dumped with CDRWIN and saturn checked the CD then returned an error CD incompaible after checked the ring. It could be the drive i used to read the track or the data format i burnt it back with. Also locating the exact spot where the ring starts is a problem.
Lets face it the drive they use is usually a sanyo / JVC / Samsung whatever, the saturn was way over budget making it capable of reading back holographic data would have added to the cost, im assuming that hologropic look doesnt do anything, lets face it if a normal CD drive can read back the track, it shows data is definetly there and it isnt just down to the holographic data ring like everyone used to say.
Originally posted by vbt@Wed, 2005-04-27 @ 10:17 PM
Any news ?
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No one has been really trying lately i guess, best bet is to do a disc swap and do sector dump from 0 - 333000 and burn back.
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