11-24-2013, 11:14 AM
Beta .46 fixes a problem when weakbits are decoded with adjacent valid data.
After creating either a flux image or g64 of Mindscape weakbits protected games, load the image in the analyzer and look at track 1. You should see some blue (invalid) GCR bytes. Typically, there is several 00 bytes. If you see only a single blue byte that is not 00, then you will have to repeat the image process again until you do get the proper weakbit data. Unfortunately, that is the nature of weakbits with PC drives. Do NOT use any of the Panasonic -5 drives as those never seem to return any weakbit information ever.... but using the technique described above, you can always check your image to see if the valid data is there. Once the data is there for a flux image, all copies to disk or conversions to g64 will always work.
After creating either a flux image or g64 of Mindscape weakbits protected games, load the image in the analyzer and look at track 1. You should see some blue (invalid) GCR bytes. Typically, there is several 00 bytes. If you see only a single blue byte that is not 00, then you will have to repeat the image process again until you do get the proper weakbit data. Unfortunately, that is the nature of weakbits with PC drives. Do NOT use any of the Panasonic -5 drives as those never seem to return any weakbit information ever.... but using the technique described above, you can always check your image to see if the valid data is there. Once the data is there for a flux image, all copies to disk or conversions to g64 will always work.