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I also imaged these games about 7 years ago using a modified 1541 drive with an XMP1541 cable and nibtools. At the time I imaged them none of the three would work in WinVice, CCS64, or MESS. I just retried them and none of them worked in WinVice (2.4), CCS64 (3.9.1) or MESS (0.154). You were able to get them to work in Vice? I just wanted to verify since you were questioning whether Kyroflux dumped the protection properly.

What i was referring to is when dumping to g64 you never seem to get identical dumps. I assume this is due to imaging as GCR encoding rather then a plain sector dump.

Because of the nature of dumping C64 disks with Kryoflux you either need a modified floppy drive. Or you need an index hole for both sides of the disk or you can't dump the back side properly. So i have to hole punch the disk sleeve if it doesn't already have an index hole for the back side. So unless i know the back side needs to be copied i'm hesitant to try just to find it's unformatted. Most disks note contents on both sides ones that don't i've checked online to see if there 1 or 2 sided.

I did miss the back side for Shoot'em Up Construction kit i'll upload it later.

The 4 games i listed did not work in Vice. I was contemplating whether it was an emulation issue or a dumping problem.

Gotcha.

Yeah, the problem with dumping raw is you're trying to read everything including data that isn't really there. It's unreliable to read and hard to tell whether it's important or not.

Good dumps not working in Vice are common, for example there was an assumption about how the data in the g64 was structured because it was how older tools generated them. New tools came along which generated valid files but those assumptions were no longer valid and the protection checks would fail.

Okay, so... These dumps can't be verified against other dumps, then?

How can we know that nothing went wrong and they're perfect? I'm confused now.

Dumps done on drives without a hardware index hole sensor cannot be verified against each other, welcome to what we've been talking about for the last 2 years

Well, I hope that somebody will eventually come up with a way to extract and preserve just the relevant (non-exclusively-physical) info from these, in a way that two dumps from two disks of the same version of the game will give the same results...

I mean, I'm sure that more difficult things have been achieved at this point.

If you don't know how to achieve it, how can you make a judgement on whether it's more or less difficult than other things?

Even with an index sensor you could have problems. There is nothing to say that the original disks were written synchronised to the index sensor & even if there were there might have been an offset. With a long track you can still end up being in the middle of data when the index pulse happens.

It is essentially impossible to automatically dump every single game into a working and consistent image. You can try to build a system where the software analyses the data and recognises which game it is and re-masters it, but you have to do the original re-mastering by hand.

This would also be useful for matching and verifying tape images, by the way. I guess it would be incredibly complicated to make such a thing? =\