Dumping disc by EA failes with read error

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Dumping disc by EA failes with read error #15

Open eku opened 2 years ago

eku commented 2 years ago

The following CDs WUP-P-AF3P and WUP-P-ANSP from EA unexpectedly abort with never-ending read errors. The CDs are clean and do not show any unusual scratches. WUP-P-ALZP was easy to dump. Needless to say, all three games can be played without any problems.

Is it a bug in wudd or could EA use copy protection?

$ du -sh *
167M    WUP-P-AF3P
114M    WUP-P-ANSP

IMG_20220801_194222_HHT cleaned

Maschell commented 2 years ago

If discs play fine but they fail to dump, they have some kind scratches in parts of the disc without any actual game data. Try to clean the disc anyway.

Tip: When you see the read-error screen, you can eject the disc, clean it, insert it back again until it reads fine. Skipping sectors it's only recommend if it really has no chance to read.

In my experience clean already "clean" disc help in many cases, even if it takes a few attempts

eku commented 2 years ago

That did it. Thanks for the hint.

While I was faced with disc errors the desire arose for the following options:

Besides A and B, a possibility to abort in case of errors.
An option to skip all future errors.
The possibility to abort the process and continue at any time, i.e. to record the progress and to dump only the sectors that have not yet been dumped the next time.
In case of errors or completion, a haptic feedback, e.g. vibration (see NUSpli).