You need a specific drive to correctly burn XGD3 games.
Overburning and truncating will result in getting flagged/banned and or trouble booting/installing games.
Thank you. I was looking into that.
I understand the drive to get is a lite-on iHAS series drive.
Is it true that revision B of these units is the last to be useful for this?
Also is there any firmware that if a drive were updated to, would make these drives unable to accept the custom firmware? Like to high of a version number to downgrade from or anything?
I see a lot of these drives on ebay for around $15. If all I have to do is make sure there's a B after the model number on the label, it should be easy to find one. Would the older ones work too? rev A or unrevised or whatever, with an older build date?
Looking at isos in the redump spec, I see three file sizes:
8,738,846,720 bytes
7,838,695,424 bytes
7,835,492,352 bytes
Do these file sizes correlate to XGD3, XGD2 and XGD1 discs respectively?
Obviously the larger one is a challenge, as the capacity of a typical dvd+dl disc seems to be reported as 8,547,991,552 bytes in my normal pc with a normal drive.
On a very loosely related note, I was recently able to burn the wall, a 2cd set worth about 82 minutes, onto a single 80 minute cd with IMGBurn, that plays with no trouble!