Editing Disc Identification/Serialization Data

<div style="float:right">[[File:Anatomy of a PS4 Disc.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Anatomy of a PS4 Game Disc]]</div>

The [[Disc Identification/Serialization Data|Identification & Serialization Data]] from a PlayStation 4 [[Game Titles|Game Title]] contains several Information, which you can find not only on any Game Disc pressed for the [[Console Information|PlayStation 4]], but also similar for any [http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/ PlayStation 3] and/or any other Console-based Game Disc, and other Media pressed on CD, DVD and Blu-ray.

== Disc Identification ==

=== Recognition during the [[Bootprocess]] ===

'' Full code: [[Bootprocess]]''

 

==== Detecting the built-in [[Bluray Drive|Blu-ray Drive]] ====

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cd0: <SONY PS-SYSTEM  402R 0063> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device

cd0: cd present [12218912 x 2048 byte records]

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<118>MSG AutomounterMelUtil(int32_t sceAutomounterMelUtil::unregisterDiscInsertionCallback() 686):

<118>  callback for disc insertion event has not been registered yet.

<118>MSG AutomounterMelUtil(int32_t sceAutomounterMelUtil::unregisterDiscEjectionCallback() 727):

<118>MSG AutomounterMelUtil(int32_t sceAutomounterMelUtil::unregisterDiscMountCallback() 578):

<118>  callback for mount event has been not registered yet.

<118>MSG AutomounterMelUtil(int32_t sceAutomounterMelUtil::unregisterDiscUnmountCallback() 638):

<118>  callback for umount event has not been registered yet.

 

==== Identifying the Disc ====

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<118>sceBdSchedConfigure 74 : The specified package file is on /dev/cd0.

g_bd_sched_init 2889 : BD scheduler is initialized.

g_bd_sched_init 2891 : bd_sched is built at 07:41:55 Aug 20 2014

g_bd_sched_init 2900 : geom name is cd0.sched..

g_bd_sched_init 2922 : /dev/cd0

GEOM_SCHED: Device cd0.sched. created.

bd_sched_ioctl_configure 3382 : /user/app/CUSA00016/app.pkg

bd_sched_ioctl_configure 3399 : /system_data/playgo/CUSA00016/bdcopy.pbm

bd_sched_ioctl_configure 3441 : /mnt/disc/app/CUSA00016/app.pkg

bd_sched_ioctl_configure 3469 : emap size=21857697792, physical=3166568448, logical=0

 

...

 

bd_sched_bd_reader 1859 : [Ripping] All data have read. 0 0

bd_sched_bd_reader 1864 : [Ripping] All data have written or existed on the HDD.

 

 

</pre>

 

 

=== Source Identification Code ===

The '''Source Identification Code''' (SID-Code) can be found on almost all pressed optical discs worldwide since 1994, originally planned as a piracy safeguard, but it's also used for acceptance sampling. It contains two codes, a ''Mould Code'' and a ''Mastering Code''. Each code consists the digits "IFPI" (named by the '''I'''nternational '''F'''ederation of the '''P'''honographic '''I'''ndustry) followed by a four or (less often) five-digit code. These two codes are located in the inner ring from any optical disc (outside the data section) and can be used to trace the location from a manufacturing or mastering plant, where the disc got pressed.

 

 

| Japan || UMD || PSP || ? || ? || IFPI L271 || ? || ? || ? || ? ||  

| Japan || BD || PS4 || IFPI 45** || on Top || IFPI L280 || Bottom || Sony DADC Japan Inc. || {{flag|JP}} || Shizuoka - Haibara District, Shizuoka Prefecture ||

| Japan || BDXL || PS5 || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? ||  

| Europe || CD || PSX || IFPI 94** || Bottom || IFPI L553<br>IFPI L555 || on Top || Sony DADC Austria AG || {{flag|AT}} || July 1995 ~ July 2005 in Anif, near Salzburg || <ref>Mastering Code is mirrored (probably printed from the bottom side as usual but the bottom from a PlayStation Disc is entire blackened). Also only those Game Discs with a silver-printed surface contains a visible Mastering Code (mostly '''Platinum''' and a few Standard Games) because the area from the Mastering Code is covert with the Disc Cover from the actual Game itself.</ref>

| Europe || UMD || PSP || IFPI 94** || Bottom || IFPI L556<br>IFPI L557<br>IFPI L558 || Bottom || Sony DADC Austria AG || {{flag|AT}} || August 2005 ~ ? in Anif, near Salzburg ||  

| Europe || BD || PS3 || IFPI 94** || on Top || IFPI LY23<br>IFPI LY24<br>IFPI LY25<br>IFPI LY26<br>IFPI LY27 || Bottom || Sony DADC Austria AG || {{flag|AT}} || <abbr title="Beginning with Master Discs (for internal researches) and later with Promo Discs (January/February 2006)">February 2005</abbr> ~ March 2013 in Anif, near Salzburg<br>April 2013 ~ in Thalgau, near Salzburg ||  

| Europe || BD || PS4 || IFPI 94** || on Top || IFPI LY24<br>IFPI LY25<br>IFPI LY26<br>IFPI LY27 || Bottom || Sony DADC Austria AG || {{flag|AT}} || September 2013 ~ in Thalgau, near Salzburg || <ref>see http://salzburg.orf.at/news/stories/2616253/ - Report about the Mastering plant from Sony DADC in Thalgau, Austria (in German Language).</ref>

| Europe || BDXL || PS5 || IFPI 94** || on Top || IFPI LY23<br>IFPI LY26<br>IFPI LY27<br>IFPI LY28 || Bottom || Sony DADC Austria AG || {{flag|AT}} || September 2020 ~ in Thalgau, near Salzburg ||

==== See also ====

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

=== Burst Cutting Area ===

A Pre-recorded Media Serial Number (PMSN), located inside the BCA, can be stored on a {{G|Blu-ray Disc}} (but extremely unlikely on PS3/PS4 Game Discs because there was an idea from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA)] during the early development stages from the {{G|Blu-ray Disc}} to avoid online functions (BD-Live) from Blu-ray Movies burned on recordable Media - but which was <!--// as [[User:Roxanne]] knows //--> never in use since BD-Live works also on recordable Media even when the {{G|AACS}} copy protection is fully removed).

==== PIC Zone ====

==== See also ====

=== Angular Marks ===

'''Angular Marks''' are also a security measure to avoid piracy. It makes the difference that these Marks were located in the data area of a disc (outside the BCA). It works similar to the old Bad Sector copy protection, were the {{G|CD-ROM}} got pressed with zero-filled Physical Sector Numbers, which were unreadable for very old outdated optical disc drives without a RAW-writing function. Instead, the sectors are readable (error correction will fix the angular marks), but a special feature of the DVD controller allows recovering the bit-exact position and size of the laser mark. The result is then stored signed in the BCA, so that the reader can validate it. Since the laser marks are written after producing the discs, the marks cannot be as accurately as required to pass a given BCA. This method is used on the Nintendo GameCube<!--// and this is not GC devwiki.com ;) //-->, for example. This can be circumvented by placing strings of zeros in the actual bitstream, which - to the reader - look identical to an angular laser mark.

==== See also ====

=== ROM Mark ===

==== Notes ====

==== Information ====

 

==== Patents and references ====

=== References ===

=== Generic ===

* Thomson Patent: [http://www.google.co.uk/patents/WO2009105215A2 Optical disc with pre-recorded and recordable regions] (a proposed alternative for CBA: disabled at factory, enabled at a point of sale)

* SCEI Patent: [https://www.google.co.uk/patents/US20130007892 A game playing system includes a use permission tag:] a patent that could effectively prevent the use of second-hand game (e.g.: using {{G|NFC}})