Trouble ripping PS1 disc

I bought a copy of "Memory Manager Plus" by the guys who made the Gameshark from a thrift store. The disc looks pretty much scratch free but has a blue bottom for some reason.

When I put it into my laptop's DVD-ROM drive it recognizes it after a while. Upon launching ImgBurn it stalls when it attempts to read information from the disc taking upwards of 5 minutes to just be ready to start ripping. As soon as it starts it takes some time to read the TOC and begin making the image with it stalling as soon as reading the actual data begins.

Anyone have any ideas? I'm thinking about trying a trap disc of some sort to rip it blind or another blind ripping method.

 

You should try with another CD drive.

 

Probably peppered with bad sectors or whatever to prevent exactly what you're trying to do. It's an unofficial disc so it doesn't have to conform to Sony's guidelines on disc structure etc.

 

I was leaning towards that one myself. Might have to dig through my drives to find one that will let me rip the disc without slowing down to reread every bad sector a dozen times. ImgBurn will let me skip but it does such a poor job at a disc like this I might as well grab a laser pointer and map the binary by hand.

 

Definitely worth trying in as mant drives as possible.

I think Alcohol 120% has a "skip bad sectors" setting, btw. Not sure how drive-dependent that would be.

 

Action Replay are notorious for producing disks that prevent them from being copied.

I'm pretty sure swap magic used a similar trick.

 

swap magic did indeed

 

Currently up to sector 129. Seems it only was able to rip the first 24 sectors so far without error. Hopefully this won't destroy the optical drive...

 

Try UltraIso dumping it to the CloneCD format with the skip bad sectors option on. The .DAT files are dummy files with zeros padding the disc irc.

 

try use old CD-ROM

 

Datel discs do read and dump fine on the PS1/PS2. If you hack something to dump the disc using the PS2, you should be able to get anything you need out of it.

Also if you only need the files from it, just use uLE on a PS2 to dump them to USB.

Dumping the ISO on a PC CD-ROM will not work out because the disc is actually engineered with purposely bad sectors to not work on PC CD-ROM drives. That obviously does not affect the Playstation console at all. :thumbsup: