I was just curios what might be considered the proper way of dumping N-Gage games. The old DAT by SolidSnake just hashes the individual files while the file in the WIP DAT on the Dat-o-Matic used dd. I've personally used Win32DiskImager to make full images of the cards. I don't have Worms World Party, so I can't compare exactly, but I noticed that its first 240 bytes are all 00h while all the games I've dumped start with:
FA 33 C0 8E D0 BC 00 7C 8B F4 50 07 50 1F FB FC
BF 00 06 B9 00 01 F2 A5 EA 1D 06 00 00 BE BE 07
B3 04 80 3C 80 74 0E 80 3C 00 75 1C 83 C6 10 FE
CB 75 EF CD 18 8B 14 8B 4C 02 8B EE 83 C6 10 FE
CB 74 1A 80 3C 00 74 F4 BE 8B 06 AC 3C 00 74 0B
56 BB 07 00 B4 0E CD 10 5E EB F0 EB FE BF 05 00
BB 00 7C B8 01 02 57 CD 13 5F 73 0C 33 C0 CD 13
4F 75 ED BE A3 06 EB D3 BE C2 06 BF FE 7D 81 3D
55 AA 75 C7 8B F5 EA 00 7C 00 00 49 6E 76 61 6C
69 64 20 70 61 72 74 69 74 69 6F 6E 20 74 61 62
6C 65 00 45 72 72 6F 72 20 6C 6F 61 64 69 6E 67
20 6F 70 65 72 61 74 69 6E 67 20 73 79 73 74 65
6D 00 4D 69 73 73 69 6E 67 20 6F 70 65 72 61 74
69 6E 67 20 73 79 73 74 65 6D 00 00 00 00 00 00
I just want to make sure there aren't any issues before I attempt to submit the games to the database. If there is a better or more reliable way to do this on Windows, please let me know.
I know there is some security metadata that only AARU supports for dumping and only on a certain chipset of readers. But it still errors with some of the early games (eg. tomb raider).
So, I compared my results to Aaru dumps found on Archive.org converted to RAW disc images. I also compared the Worms dump with the one in DoM. I found that the images matched, it's just that the Aaru images also contain the CID, CSD, and OCR from the MMC. Is this information utilized in the copy protection? If so, then I don't think one could make a 1:1 copy of the game on another MMC card. This is because I believe, and correct if I'm wrong, (most of) that information is set by the manufacturer. Of course, I don't know if these Aaru dumps are missing any necessary information or not. On a side note, the difference with Worms and my games must be specific to the games themselves and not the backup software.
Edit: Of course, I'm not saying that information shouldn't be collected. Though, it's overall importance really depends on if it is indeed used for copy protection or not.