How & Why I Rip All Videogame Discs to a PC - Adam Koralik
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2020
- It's Adam Koralik here and today we're discussing how and why I rip all my game discs to a PC. This video is more about guidance as opposed to a direct tutorial for every disc based game console.
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PS3/PS4 Drive: Amazon has since pulled this page down. The model number is LG-WH16NS40 SATA Black 16X Drive.
GameCube/Wii Drive (not in stock): www.newegg.com/p/0DF-00E2-00037
GC Drive: LG Model GDR - 8164B 
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Backing up discs now will have a huge benefit later. That is we have a way of keeping those games that will be tied up in licensing purgatory, or delisted on digital storefronts. So if you can digitize your games and use ODEs, or Flash carts. You in theory could play your entire physical game collection for decades. Digital is another problem.
yup, i like to tell people, it't not digital vs physical. its digital only vs physical + digital.
@@silversonic99 Exactly, the only real issue people may have is storing all their games on local storage devices. I mean, it's not like you could upload them online... sigh.
@@jasper9291 Many reasons. But the big ones are capacity, quality of parts given that it's a physical good. Then heaven help you if you need data recovery.
But don't forget what's on that drive, assuming it's healthy can never be taken away from you. Cloud storage is not a guarantee.
I suppose you can burn them to optical discs if the files are compressed and will fit on the disc. But then again still not as reliable as a HDD/SSD.
facts my friend did that with his coolection and back it up to his google drive and PC. He gave me the link and I downloaded it and uploaded it to my google drive. I've been doing it for six years and switching PC builds or having a crappy HDD emulating and finding roms can be time consuming. I just download a full folder based on console and I don't have to worry about it.
It's inevitable that Adam will be responsible for ripping every variant of every Shenmue ever and making backups of those.
Haven't been to this channel in a few years.. Man.. feels like night and day. Your personality and speech just feels so much more confident/powerful aha
Welcome back.
You've missed alot
I am one of those weird guys who has HD DVD drive since I have one of those blu-ray / HD DVD player combo drives :)
Do they exist WTF 😳
@@LacayoDe LG GGW-H20L
I got one for my 360 that came with king kong haha, never use it though
Great idea to rip HD-DVDs since many of them are suffering from disc rot
@@shae1547 my group and I have been trying to preserve HD-DVDs sadly 90% of the ripped disc had disc rot. It's a hard format to preserve these days.
I don't even understand why so many used games are so scratched. I have only ever scratched a game disc ONCE. And that one time was enough to scar me for life. :P
Ever since that one time I've been insanely careful.
Most people aren't as careful as us.
I remember I broke my copy of We Ski cause I was bored
Yeah I was a dumb kid
I makes no sense to me either. The game is in the console or in its case, its not hard to look after your stuff.
I used to work at a Game Crazy where we had a disc resurfacing buffer machine. I saw some scratched, crusty discs in my day 😂 but that thing really cleaned up light and medium scratches flawlessly.
I was always careful with my games (cartridges & discs) and didn't have any problems. Even my childhood front loading NES worked on the first try as long as the cartridge was clean even 20 years later.
kids they think game cube discs are frisbees or dog toys i have thousands of dollars worth of games i've bartered for that were scratched (plan to get a resurfascer)
Adam you do such thorough walk through of retro gameplay topics in a format thats pretty casual yet well organized and easy to listen to. Been watching since I was 15 in 2015!
You have to give Adam credit for backing up his entire disc based collection as that must require a ton of effort. I bet the vast majority with extensive collections wouldn't even think about it, even though disc rot is eventually going to happen. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if more than 99% of those using optical drive emulators to play images simply download the Redump sets for convenience (myself included)
For PS3, I recommend ripping the games on the console itself with custom firmware and a program called MultiMan, It can even rip PS1 and PS2 games (even on non-PS2 compatible PS3s).
When I bought Sonic Adventure 2 for the Dreamcast, the game played perfectly until the end of the Hero Story. It would crash every single time. When I bought a second copy, it played fine. If you have the resources available to you, backing up your disc games is so important, even if it's just to validate them.
I recently started ripping my collections because i was going to play an old ps2 favorite called justice league heroes and it would no longer read. Even after being resurfaced. So I've been backing my entire collection over the last week or so.
Wow that's like one of your top videos you have ever made. Really interesting stuff. Thorough and helpful!
Keep up the content! I’m a new collector looking for ways to preserve my collection. This video was very informational. Thank you for this!
Great stuff! Creating backups is the smartest thing you do to your games. You should do an episode on how to backup and extract games from Virtual Console, Mini consoles, PSOne (PS3) games, etc, and how to play them on original hardware.
This was an excellent piece of content, thank you. Please consider adding time stamps as I find myself coming back to this video for reference and find it difficult to find the parts I’m searching for
I thought disc rot was a myth until I dug up some of my old PC games from the late 90's. A couple had black spots and one had deterioration around the outer edge. Luckily I've been migrating to ODEs for my consoles because dealing with worn disc drives is a huge pain. Optical discs were fine in their heyday but they haven't withstood the test of time.
It really depends on how they were made. I'm gonna just put this out there. If they were Japanese made discs they probably gonna outlive you. If it was made somewhere with less care for quality then it might get the rot.
The majority of badly mad discs wouldn't last a decade and would be dead by now and out of circulation.
There's plenty of sega cd And maybe the Phillips CDI discs from early 90s working fine. I presume audio CDs made in the 80s are fine for the most part too.
Btw I'm just saying Japanese as an example. Apparently GameCube games have a high incidence of disc rot. Some are more susceptible than others
Could you explain to this old guy what an ODE is.
Today I learned my Blu-ray drive can rip PS4 games
I bought it specifically to rip PS3 games but never thought to try a PS4 game
What kind of program are you using to rip your PS4 games?
@@villarreal5417 well I've only done it with PS3 games
But I would just copy the files into a folder, you have to do some additional stuff to get them to work on an emulator but I haven't done it in a while
Just started watching, but thank you for making this!! Have been looking forward to this. Really appreciate it, gonna start the arduous process of backing up my collection now.
Sweet! Good timing, after my ps3 super slim stopped reading discs, I started backing up all my discs for all my consoles. This was super helpful, thanks
Almost as if the hard Dreamcast process was trying to spite you even further with the video glitches at 20:22
...wut
Looks normal to me?
@@AdamKoralik hey man quick unrelated question I was wondering witch system you were planning on getting your multiplats for this generation
I’m not seeing whatever you’re talking about.
MANDELA EFFECT lol. I dont see any glitches.
Not the historian we deserve, but the one we need.
Thanks for the Blu-ray drive recommendation! I'm almost ready to build my first PC and this will save me a tonne of headaches. I imported Another Century's Episode R when I was a teenager and always dreamed of an English translation patch (and with RPCS3 that's not impossible).
Piracy is only when money is being made on selling Bootlegs. That time is long gone. No one is doing that anymore.
That time still exists in some countries.
Take Pakistan for example. Game stores still sell pirated copies of games AND emulators!
Also look at those selling fake ds games on Amazon and eBay. They’re literally selling a cartridge that’s readable by the ds with a little micro sd card in it containing pirated roms. A decent 90% of people who pirate just wanna play they game and I’m all fine with that, but there are few who try to use it for profit which I’m against.
I’ve been wondering how you rip your games and then this comes out a day later, many thanks lol.
Absolutely love this video. The dreamcast was super difficult. I laugh everytime sometime tells me that burning dreamcast games is easy. If only they knew the process release teams go through to convert gdroms into CDIs. Its a nightmare sometimes. Dave Mirra freestyle bmx being a prime example since it uses a nonstandard CDDA format
Great as always Adam
Hey boss new to the channel as soon as you started talking i quickly realized this guy knows his shit. You remember the history and the systems that came before and it's technology. Your well rounded on your info keep up the great work pimpin.
Thank you for this video, your dedication to Video Game preservation is awesome. Truly appreciate your knowledge
Very interesting video Adam!
I need to get a disc drive. I'm a primarily pc gamer and I love emulators so not only would I be preserving my games but I would also be able to play my games on emulators without waiting for the games iso to download from Rom sites.
That CDRWIN screenshot, took me back, 12 yo me burning cdroms like a mad lad
Gonna recline n chill while listening. Good idea for a vid!
Hell yeah Broadband club.
Thank you so much dude for making this video the computer drives you listed are all I need now. Well that and the software. Cheers dude.
The Department of Defense needs to adopt the Dreamcasts way of preserving data
Great Video. Thank You for All The Info.
Great video. Very informative.
Great video as always Adam!
Gosh, this brings back memories for sure. I also am one of the OG's from back then that backed up all their games.. CDRWin, CloneCD, Disc Juggler and Nero Burning ROM were some of my tools of the trade. I spent countless hours researching how to do this and that.. modded nearly all my consoles for the purpose of playing backups.. except for the PS4 (I know there is a firmware exploit for that one, but haven't gotten around to it) and well the Xbox One is still as of yet unexploitable.
On a side note, for PlayStation 1 era games, I actually found a hardware based professional CD duplicator made by TASCAM that ripped PS1 games 1:1 to blank CD-R's. It worked near flawlessly (granted the original source disc was not too scratched up), and hence no computer was needed for those games. When I get home I may leave the model number of this TASCAM duplicator for reference. Just another option if anyone had acquired something like that.
On the topic of scratched discs.. I remember how GameStop (EB Games in Canada) constantly tried to sell me their warranty on games.. Well guess what? I said no to that extra charge every time. To this day, all my games disc/cartridge still work, and are in immaculate condition. But yeah, I never understood how used games were always so bad.. I found discs from previous owners that were scratched up the wazoo and even spilled with pop drinks and gum... Seeing that kind of abuse to these discs just breaks my heart.
Did you copy any PS2 games/discs with the one you mentioned in your reply? I want to backup my games so I don't have to repurchase them if they get worn out..
@@ronbowman4437 unfortunately no. The TASCAM duplicator was a unit designed to strictly copy CD’s on a 1:1 basis, not DVD’s…
You can backup your PS2 games by using a computer along with IMGBurn. There are tutorials in RUclips if you search for it.
@@zerophyte Thanks a million!
I now know how to backup my turbo cd games. There is not a lot of current info on this. Thank you.
If you wanna check a game you must rip it. Rip it good! Thanks especially for the ps4 info. Amazing tip about that bluray drive. I'm using a phat 360 drive with the power adapter. I've noticed it works well if you detect the drive in jungle flasher before ripping. This doesn't need to be done again until the computer is restarted.
Awesome, loved the vid! I’m actively trying to slowly stop using disks as much as possible lol
Oh man. And my dreamcast is the main reason i want to do this lol. I hope i will get around to it someday. Thank you for this video, it is very insightful.
Old hardware for old games is the best advice for anyone wanting to rip games. I started backing up my PS1 collection on a Win7 pc with an external usb drive and was having constant errors but when I tried an old WinXP laptop with a much slower drive everything but the most scratched up discs worked fine.
Congratulations on 112K subs
I've done this with all of my PS1 games, PC games, saturn, dreamcast. I plan on doing it with my Xbox/PS2/Gamecube since I want to do the SD loader on some of the consoles and have backups.
For GameCube, definitely use NKit to compress your ISO collection. It is the best lossless solution there is.
You can use DVD Decrypter for PS2 games. For ripping and burning.
Thanks for making the video.
I always back up all my game disks for all platforms first thing after buying and checking if they boot and play. For that very reason: to preserve them. The only exception is "PC Steam disks", just doesn't make much sence.
Kudos for promiting the idea, and giving the insight to the less tech-savvy gamers!
WiiU is the ultimate way to play GameCube, Wii, and WiiU games
No, it is for Wii and wiiu but not GameCube.
@@haloharry97 Wiiu is compatible with GameCube games, but you have to install HBC to load them. It also works with basically any controllers you can connect (including GameCube via the USB adapter)
@Kevin Badger my comment was originally for a different comment.
i think it was about asking if Nintendont works on the gamecube?
Dang, Adam is sitting on a MOTHERLOAD of clean game rips haha
great video
There should be a Mount Rushmore for the crypt keepers of gaming - there is the shining visage of Koralik, The Gaming Historian and... two further spots open ;)
MVG deffo deserves a spot
I still have like 30 gigs I keep backing up on a bunch of hard drives of one of the original dreamcast archivers Mother Hen. It's crazy the progress made. I've still got a binder filled with sharpie marker CDRS n utopia boot discs from 2000. Oh my youth.
This is why I use emulation! All this hassle has been done for me. I just download the games and play them. So, they are not on original hardware, they are actually on far superior hardware! I love emulation! I have well over 10,000 games and productivity software (the productivity software is for my old computer emulators like the Amiga, the Atari St and BBC Micro etc.) 😁 Yes, I do buy games but only for the PC and nothing else. And consoles that I cannot emulate I couldn't care less for. Very interesting video. Thank Adam. I was wondering if the Dreamcast was really 1gb or it was just the disk fooling it that it was 1gb (you know like the fake 2tb $15 USB Thumb Drives you can get.)
Love me some technical stuff! Nice video I love it!
I think you skipped Saturn games, that one was tricky too (with TOCs etc...), but I think you covered Saturn enough in your previous videos!
I didn't skip it, like I said in the video, use CDRWIN.
My copy of Virtua Fighter 2 and Albert Odyssey have started to deteriorate, so yeah definitely looking to get those things backed up ASAP.
this was the most craziest insane nerd video i've ever seen!
Hopefully that's good.
@@AdamKoralik yes lol. although i was spinning out.
I backup my whole library too, because I just don't trust this stuff to last as long as expect myself to remain interested in it.
My favorite part of ripping game discs is seeing how the games are titled internally in the text document. Super Mario Strikers was just called "Mario Soccer" on the disc.
I recently finished backing up my GameCube collection, thanks for all the knowledge from this video and in your channel, Adam.
Video game stores and re-sellers should verify their products data like this and put it on their adds, I'd be willing to buy a game for a higher price if the seller can guarantee to me that the disc data is intact.
Also, it feels pretty special to play Super Smash Bros Melee online on Dolphin with an ISO that I ripped myself.
Thank you for helping me out with this helpful video. I just ordered the LG WH16NS40 Drive to rip my PS3 games, this will save me a lot of trouble considering someone gave me a free PS3 that has an issue with its blu ray drive. I also don't want to hack my main PS3 and risk getting banned from PSN.
Update: a few of my PS3 games did not rip even though some were factory sealed. This proves why Adam rips his games in order to verify the integrity of the disc.
Thank you for making this video. I find myself returning to it rather often. I have a question regarding backing up Playstation 1 games, more specifically those PS1 games that are multi-track (i.e. where there are separate tracks on the disc from the data). When I rip the disks and check the hashes afterwards, I find that the first track, containing the data, is dumped correctly, but all the audio tracks get incorrect hashes. Is this something you have encountered, and if so do you know what the solution is? I am guessing it has something to do with "pregaps", whatever that is, but I don't know.
Lol the Dreamcast ain’t messing around. I didn’t expect such a long convoluted process. Never had one but it’s interesting to hear about.
Thank you! I knew exactly what rabbit hole I was jumping into with this video and was not disappointed! Question though, will the Dreamcast method (using a Dreamcast) also cover arcade GD-ROMs? Like NAOMI, TRIFORCE, etc.? I don’t recall you ever mentioning you have any of these discs, but thought I’d ask.
I'm honestly not sure.
I very recently just started backing up my PS2 game collection using a Dell DW316 USB DVD Drive and Image Burn. 🎮💿📀
Sick !!
Would you ever do a video on the importance of physical media, and what are the best tips to best protect and look after your physical games?
Like, how to take care of your stuff?
@@AdamKoralik I guess, like a part explaining in your own words why physical media is important and an all digital future is bad, then maybe the second half explaining the best way to protect and maintain your stuff
"this video will NOT show you how to..."
(proceeds to explain general methods.)
thanks for reminding me the headaches involved of backing up personal library.. more important to me is backing up digital exclusives that are no longer available for retail. so far i ripped my own unlock keys from my account and just have them sitting on a few hard drives with the games.
Been waiting for this...I want to rip my dreamcast games still. I got my original xbox, wii, and gc so far.
I rip and back up all optical discs I have - even music CD's, movie DVD's, and blu-rays. The last two or three DVD's I bought, they each had defective sectors that I had to send back for a refund. And these otherwise mint condition DVD's aren't even that old! Maybe ten-twelve years, tops. Forget covid, *bit rot* is the real pandemic everyone should be worried about!
I was looking into backing up all my game data and stumbled across this video. I'm looking forward to getting a LG 8164B now. But when searching I was looking to see if my drive worked for anything. I've had this Blueray disk reader since I first built my first PC. Long since upgraded and no longer use a case with a 5.25" drive bay, but I kept that disk reader. I've used it to rip audio files from some CD's to listen to on my computer. Now come to find out my LG WH16NS40 is also good for PS3 and PS4 games is a cool reason for me to keep it even longer lol.
I was wondering when I was searching for it why some of the listings were twice what I paid for it new.
Can't wait for PS5 unboxing!
Hey Adam what version of Firmware are you running on that drrive? (LG WH16NS40 Super Multi Blue Internal SATA 16x Blu-ray Disc Rewriter) I was reading some peeps were not able to rip 4K HDR movies.because the drive ships with the updated 1.03 firmware. Was also wondering if this would affect ripping ps4 games and such? Great vid...your memory is awesome remembering how do do all this ripping.
I heard that too, I haven't tried a 4K disc so I'm not sure off hand to be honest.
I relate this video immensely lol
The readme file on rawdump shows four models of disc drives that work with wii & GC games. "Use a LG-8164b or LG-8163b or LG-8162b or LG-8161b dvd drive." I found the "LG-8161b" model for $30 AUD on ebay.
I have a friend who got Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and it would keep crashing at a rather peculiar scene without fail, despite the rest of the game running smooth as butter. Definitely worth backing these games up as a condition check
edge emulation has a bunch of ROMs for consoles that don't use too much space. The ROMs in that site are not much more than 1GB because it only goes up to CD/cartridge games, no GD/DVD. I got a few 32x games from there and play them on my Kega Fusion emulator so they're great, even DS games for those who have dsemume.
you missed ripping OG XBOX games with PC Kreon drive. Great vid!
Its also worth noting constant usage can burnout your console disc drives, my ps1 cd drive went bad recently, so if you can move to an ode format its beneficial for both your console and games. Secondly, slightly dipping into piracy, its very popular to condense game images in the "scene" this has caused a huge problem with dreamcast pirated games being broken or missing content. If youre using gdemu or redream youre better off ripping your original discs.
With the impending closure of the PS3 Playstation Store im backing up my PS3 Blu-Ray Discs to a external hard drive with my CFW PS3 with Multiman that I installed back in 2019. It's not about piracy it's about preservation, people forget that even when the digital age started, a ton of games never got digital releases. Here are just a few examples of PS3 games without digital releases: Genji Days of the Blade, Heavenly Sword, Motorstorm, Motorstorm Pacific Rift, Katamari Forever, White Knight Chronicles 1 & 2, No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise, and so many more.
The LG drive is listed again. Ive had one for years, well before i was made aware that it worked for PS3/4 discs.
Yea I’ve requested this video for AGES
The ASUS BW-16D1HT also works for ripping PS3 games. Maybe all 'M-Disc' drives can?
I remember buying a copy resident evil the disc had some scratches on it not too bad got half way through the game and it froze :(
Can't wait for the PS6 recap/retrospective on December 8,2033!
My birthday, awesome.
Hey Adam, love the video, actually watched it a few times.
I was just wondering if you have ever ripped PSP games and if so, how have you gone about it?
Personally no, but I believe a hacked PSP can do that.
@@AdamKoralik like Columbo says 'One more thing' did you find out if that blu-ray drive read PS5 games aswell?
Nah, it can't read Ultra HD Blu-rays. But from some basic research I did, it seems some drives can. But I don't know which.
Adam, Thanks for the video. I really need to back up my 6th Generation game discs [my XBOX, PS2 & GCN discs]. Also I have a question: Have you played the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1+2 Reboot? It's actually quite good!
I have not, not yet anyway.
You should host a master class on archiving retro video game libraries.
Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need. 👍
I like turtles
what kind of turtles?
@@fozzyozzy106 all kinds of course, but I like sea turtles, especially the leatherback sea turtle.
@@iliketurtles4869 ooohhh nice
Yes!
You sir are my hero.
Not only modded console can be useful, which is a really good recommendation to digitalize any physical game that you got and put it on the SD card or Flash Drive. but i think they're might some people that they like to use on Emulator if people don't want necessarly needing a console, and just to buy the game legally and rip it to the computer to play it (depending on the disc they're supported for the systems). That could be also useful to digitalize some games that they don't really need a console but Games. could be maybe also useful. it's not the same feel to play it but atleast adapters exists for an original feel.
Hallo peepohappy
I love the Sega Saturn!
I recently discovered that my ps2 can not play duel layer discs, basically a small handful of games (like the god of wars) and DVD movies. the DVD part isn't an issue cause why would I use a ps2 for dvds. I did some reading and found that the lasers are starting to fail and that duel layer discs not reading is the first signs of this. So Im gonna start riping my games and playing them off USB or a network drive, using freemcboot so I don't wear the laser more. I might also just replace it at some point if its not to expensive
Cool video tech talk lol
With the original xbox if you put the disk in the drive and boot to your custom dashboard that has ftp enabled, when you ftp to the xbox you will see a D folder. that's the disk drive. you can just copy that D folder to your computer and then rename it. So you don't have to dump it to the hdd first and then off the hdd via ftp you can just dump via ftp right off the disk.
Default ftp username and password most of the time is just xbox for both of them.
Damn... I never knew it was that easy so rip some of the early consoles. I’m gonna try that!
I have some "forensic copying software" which I used to copy xbox one x official internal hdd to ssd, (it worked for that so would it work work these consoles)
Can you make a video showing how to make copies of PlayStation 2, please? I tried many years ago but did work
Did this video not make that perfectly clear?
6:57 Can it convert multi-disk games into a single ISO? While ImgBurn and PSX2PSP usually gets the job done with such games on the PS1, Driver 2 is an exception in that when prompted to change to disc 2 it doesn't detect that you've swapped the disc.
Not that I'm aware of.
@@AdamKoralik Pity. I heard there's a patch, but only for the NTSC version. The Driver series as a whole desperately needs a Vita and PS4 port.
I found your video very informative. I am interested in ripping my original xbox, ps3 and ps4 games to my PC. My question is, I also have a PS Vita, so if these files are ripped to an iso format, does this mean I would I thene be able to transfer these files to my Vita and play them on there? I know with Xbox One, PS3 and PS4 it's possibe to wirelessly play games on the PS Vita, but I would love to be able to play my games when I am away from the internet. Is this possible do you know?
I don't know enough about the Vita ripping or hacking process to be honest.
I don't have that many options so for my PS1 and PS2 discs Image Burn is my go to option. You're right though that it's not the most reliable option because I've had games that ripped perfectly yet didn't function on the actual consoles. In most of those cases I geuss it's just because of scratches and the older PS1/PS2 lasers have a harder time powering through those because they're more worn down than a modern PC drive laser. But hey at least you know your PC is able to make a copy so the data is fine, you just need to resurface the disc to get it back into working order on the consoles. With DVD media I'm generally not that concerned that there is gonna be data loss since they are probably build the most sturdy out of all disc formats. With DVD the data is smooshed between 2 rather thick layers of plastic so it's a lot harder for scratches to mess with the actual data. CD however is a whole different story. A scratch on the label side of the CD is a a sure fire sign that the data is probably compromised since the data layer on CD's is situated right under the label and really isn't being protected by anything aside from that very very thin label. You can detect those scratches easily by holding the CD up to a lightsource and seeing if any light bleeds straight through the CD. In a lot of cases Image Burn can confirm that data loss because it fails to read certain sectors. I've had discs though with tiny label scratches that still worked fine on the console and ripped fine via Image Burn. Blu-Ray actually has the exact same problem as CD's except on the opposite side. The Data layer on a Blu-ray discs is being protected by a very very thin plastic foil on the bottom of the disc so if a scratch penetrates that foil it's game over for the blu-ray. At least that foil on a blu-ray disc has some scratch resistant coating so getting a scratch on there is luckily rather difficult. I have no way however to rip blu-ray game discs in any way so for me it suffices if a PS3, PS4 game installs properly on a stock console. Same with Xbox 360 discs, if it installs on the stock console it's enough confirmation for me that the disc is good. With WiiU, Wii, gamecube and original xbox games I have no way at all to rip them so the only option I have there is to just play the game and if I can beat it from start to end and see the credits than it's also enough confirmation that the disc is fine. You forgot to mention PSP games btw. PSP is very easy to rip. By softmodding a PSP the console is able to install games on the memory card and you can copy the files over to a PC by straight up connecting the PSP to it.
Once I got a used Kingdom Hearts PS3 disc, and it the visuals and audio messed up in the middle of a prerendered cutscene.