08-22-2017, 03:17 AM -
I've begun dumping my games and have run into a few questions that--at first glance--don't appear to be addressed via the FAQ or quickstart guide.
1.) Is ImgBurn acceptable? Does one have to use something else, like IsoBuster or Alcohol 120%?
2.) Once you've patched an .iso with the test_patcher.exe, is your .iso "stuck" with the IRD you used? Can you re-patch with a different IRD? Remove all patching to a clean state?
3.) Is firing up Multiman and using FTP to pull the contents of dev_bdvd just as good? The PS3 decrypts them as it reads them via FTP? Or are the files it's pulling still decrypted?
4.) Do IRD files specify per-file encryption, or regions? Is it possible that games that fail a check within PS3-ISO_rebuilder are actually good rips?
These questions arise because I have some discs with a denotation of "F" that don't appear in the IRD database (French perhaps? I'm in Canada). There are also discs that match exactly, yet a certain number of files fail. This is what lead me to try IsoBuster instead of ImgBurn, but it made no difference.
Using PS3-ISO-Rebuilder to check my decrypted .iso against the the IRD results in a number of files having mismatched hashes. But here's the weird thing--when using FTP to grab those files directly off my CFW PS3--the hashes match what I got from my decrypted dump via Blu-ray drive.
So...I don't think I'm understanding how the IRD actually works. Should I just re-rip games that don't match by using the PS3 to be sure they're decrypted correctly?
Perhaps this has been covered somewhere and I've missed it--if that's the case then I'd love to be pointed in that direction.
Thanks! And thanks for the amazing work. All I've done so far is load up Heavenly Sword (intro movie). Never thought I'd see this day...
1.) Is ImgBurn acceptable? Does one have to use something else, like IsoBuster or Alcohol 120%?
2.) Once you've patched an .iso with the test_patcher.exe, is your .iso "stuck" with the IRD you used? Can you re-patch with a different IRD? Remove all patching to a clean state?
3.) Is firing up Multiman and using FTP to pull the contents of dev_bdvd just as good? The PS3 decrypts them as it reads them via FTP? Or are the files it's pulling still decrypted?
4.) Do IRD files specify per-file encryption, or regions? Is it possible that games that fail a check within PS3-ISO_rebuilder are actually good rips?
These questions arise because I have some discs with a denotation of "F" that don't appear in the IRD database (French perhaps? I'm in Canada). There are also discs that match exactly, yet a certain number of files fail. This is what lead me to try IsoBuster instead of ImgBurn, but it made no difference.
Using PS3-ISO-Rebuilder to check my decrypted .iso against the the IRD results in a number of files having mismatched hashes. But here's the weird thing--when using FTP to grab those files directly off my CFW PS3--the hashes match what I got from my decrypted dump via Blu-ray drive.
So...I don't think I'm understanding how the IRD actually works. Should I just re-rip games that don't match by using the PS3 to be sure they're decrypted correctly?
Perhaps this has been covered somewhere and I've missed it--if that's the case then I'd love to be pointed in that direction.
Thanks! And thanks for the amazing work. All I've done so far is load up Heavenly Sword (intro movie). Never thought I'd see this day...