• Jun 19 2021, 23:30 [FMT] GNU for Towns
• Jun 19 2021, 23:26 [FMT] F-BASIC386 V2.1 L10
• Jun 19 2021, 20:50 [PC] Madden NFL 2001
• Jun 19 2021, 20:29 [PC] Superbike 2001
• Jun 19 2021, 19:26 [AJCD] Saucer Wars
• Jun 19 2021, 18:47 [AJCD] Frog Feast
• Jun 19 2021, 17:42 [AJCD] Frogz 64
• Jun 19 2021, 17:39 [AJCD] Fast Food 64: Holiday Snacks
• Jun 19 2021, 17:29 [AJCD] Fast Food 64
• Jun 19 2021, 17:24 [AJCD] Ants
• Jun 19 2021, 15:08 [PC] War Front: Turning Point (Preview)
• Jun 19 2021, 14:21 [PC] Need for Speed: Most Wanted
• Jun 19 2021, 14:18 [PC] Need for Speed: Underground (Disc 2)
• Jun 19 2021, 14:05 [PC] DTM Race Driver 3 (Asset Disc)
• Jun 19 2021, 13:57 [PC] Play: Sept / Oct / Nov 2001 (Press Disc)
• Jun 19 2021, 13:48 [PC] Play: Jan / Feb 2002 (Press Disc)
• Jun 19 2021, 13:08 [PC] Interplay: Redefining the Game: E3 2001 Press CD
• Jun 19 2021, 12:47 [PS2] The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Jun 19 2021, 12:35 [PC] PlayStation 2 Monthly Artwork Disc 7: September 2005
• Jun 19 2021, 12:24 [PC] PlayStation 2 Monthly Artwork Disc 6: September 2005

For now we are no longer accepting new dumps from non-Plextor drives for discs with audio tracks.
The experimental scrambled reading methods that are used by DIC with these drives have proved to be unreliable, with several incidents reported recently.
We don't know if or when dumping with these drives will become fully reliable. In any case, it will involve testing many discs.

If you have any unverified dumps in the database with audio tracks and done with a non-Plextor drive, please consider redumping them with a Plextor.

If you have both types of drives, you might consider dumping your discs with both drives and report any issues and mismatching dumps between the drives.

Some tidbits since our last update:

- There are now more than 10.000 Sony PlayStation discs in the database!
- The Sega dumping experts are getting close(r) to finishing off the Dreamcast USA + PAL Games.
- The IBM PC section now has over 18.000 discs. Many older USA dumps are currently being rechecked with modern tools to ensure that they are correct.

As always, keep contributing!

Today our project reached a major milestone: There are now 50.000 discs in the database.
Since our last news post around 12 months ago, close to 10.000 new discs have been added to the database:

- Around 900 PSX and 950 PS2 discs, including many Japanese, PAL regional variants and Demo's.
- Close to 800 Sega (DC, MCD, SS) discs.
- Over 400 XBOX discs, bringing the USA set much closer to completion.
- Close to 4.000 IBM PC discs (!).
- Over 3.000 discs for other systems (including modern, as of yet undisclosed ones).

A huge thanks goes out to our contributors and also the Video Game Preservation Collective (VGPC) for all their efforts.

Just to clear up some confusion, Redump.org is and always will be a public preservation project that is open to new contributors.

New accounts can be requested here: http://forum.redump.org/forum/13/guests … -requests/

For dumping CD's (with DiscImageCreator), the main hurdle is the need for a genuine Plextor drive. Over the years, we have been able to accomodate new dumpers by offering them locally bought Plextor/Plexwriter drives at affordable prices (around 20-30 EUR including shipping). We are still offering these services, so if you are a prospective dumper aiming to make a lot of contributions, but in need of an affordable Plextor drive, feel free to contact us.

Other media types and systems such as XBOX (360), GC/Wii, DC, PS3 each have their own set of tools and equipment that are needed for dumping.

Dumping instructions for every system, as well as undumped lists (not always complete or up-to-date) can be found in the Wiki.

Last November 17, the server HDD failed and our hoster apparently provided zero effort in recovering any data. Daily backups were still on the same HDD, so the last backup that was in possession of the admins was from November 3.
After some weeks of radio silence, our admin iR0b0t finally informed us of the situation. It then took him another 2 months to finally bring back the site again on February 5. It still remains unclear why it took him so long to bring back the site, but what matters now is that the site is back up and that steps have been taken to prevent this from happening again: We are on a better server now with RAID1 and daily backups. On behalf of iR0b0t, Jesus, God, Satan, the Deutsche Post and everybody else involved in this calamity, we wish to apologize for the sudden downtime and thank you for your patience.

We want to ensure you guys that redump.org is here to stay. It's now been 10 years since we started our journey (nostalgia trip) and a lot has happened in those 10 years: Many people have come and gone and a lot of new systems and information have been added over the years. Many thousands of hours have been put into creating a database with information on many thousands of video game-related optical discs. Cataloging and preserving this history seemed like an impossible task when whe initially started out, and even though the project always remained somewhat small and obscure, we can still conclude that a lot of things have been accomplished in those 10 years and that many of the games that we love and cherish are now preserved in our database. Many systems can now be considered "reference sets" and have regions now that are probably over 95% complete, including PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Gamecube (Europe and USA) and Xbox (Europe). The (Japan) region continues to catch up, thanks to a small group of dedicated dumpers who continue to add new dumps each week. Then there's also IBM PC, our largest and most convoluted system, which also continues to have a steady stream of rare and not-so-rare discs added to the db each week.

A huge thanks goes out to all the people who contributed to our database over the past 10 years, and we look forward all the new contributions from new and existing members in the years to come.