Beginner's guide to LW (How-Tos)

[Shattered]

OK, I will do that. This could take a while though. It's a nice sunny weekend here and it may well be the last one for this year

[hfric]

nice job mate

[Molitor]

Tools

Compression
7-zip
WinRAR
WinACE (better for RIPS)
PreComp (slow but efficient, although not recommended for your uploads. Better use it for your compression experiments)
ECM (for dumps) (included in Command-Line Pack v1.03)
WinUHA


Media dumping tools
MagicISO
WinISO
CloneCD (handles protected discs)
BlindWrite (handles protected discs)
DAEMON Tools (handles protected discs)
Alcohol 120% (handles protected discs)
IsoBuster
UltraISO
PowerISO
WinImage (can dump floppies)
CDCheck (detects errors and checks file integrity)
CD/DVD Inspector (makes detailed reports on medias)


Integrity check
QuickSFV
wxChecksums
RapidCRC


NFO/Release DB
xREL - has NFO available for download
NFOHump - has NFO available for download
PreDB.me
ORLYDB
PreList.ws


Others
JavE (NFO maker)
4shared Desktop (for downloading/uploading to 4shared, manage folders, etc.)
File&Image Uploader (supports about 280 file hosters)
If you use File Uploader, you must connect to your 4shared account via Tools --> Settings --> File hosters before starting uploading.

[mr.editor]

Having read "Upload a game" section, I see "4shared deletes the files you uploaded after 180 days without login to your account."
As I can't promise that I can/will log in in every 180 days, then how is backup organized?
Can I upload "something" to "somewhere" for more stable user who can upload himself and make sure it stays?

ps: I realize I could use some other site for upload which promises "indefinite", but nothing is sure.

[Scaryfun]

Check pm I sent you.

[Shattered]

NFO/Release DB

srrDB:

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http://www.srrdb.com/

The site has NFO and SFV files available for download for most scene releases. Serials are removed from the NFOs.

[Molitor]

That's one very handy site, thank you for this address Shattered. I'll add it to the guide very soon. I'm going to rewrite everything almost from scratch anyway, I don't like anymore the way I wrote it.

[Shattered]

You're welcome.

The purpose of that site is to rebuild the original scene RAR files from extracted scene releases. Apparently, it only works for stored (uncompressed) RAR files, which means movie releases. I tried once to recreate a game release, but it didn't work because game groups use compression.

Thanks for writing this guide. I guess there are some posts in between your guide that could be moved. Better to have the whole guide together.

Also, the file RLSgen.bat has been removed from fast.karelia.pro.

[Meddle]

You can rebuild game releases with pyRescene, but it's really buggy and doesn't work for many releases yet. However, I have been able to rebuild a few releases with it.

[Shattered]

OK, thanks for the info.

[Shattered]

Cool, just found out it also has a tool to properly retag altered scene MP3 & FLAC releases.

[Shattered]

I was able to rebuild a compressed release with pyRescene + the tutorials on the site below:

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http://rescene.wikidot.com/

[Meddle]

It doesn't happen very often. gfy still has many many bugs to fix in pyRescene.

[Shattered]

Do you know if there's a GUI for pyRescene? It's not very user friendly at the moment.

[Meddle]

Not that I know of. I just use a simple batch file that I edit.