SmartE

Logo for Smarte solutions

General Information

Redump name for a DRM whose full name is SmarteSECURE and made by the US based Smarte solutions. It was almost exclusively found on Microsoft games from the early to mid 2000s.

Identification

SmartE protected disc have all the relevant files contained within the game executable. So easiest way to detect it is by using BoS, PID or go by the very distinct series of offset shifts in the Redumper log (seen below). Discs with the DRM also have 10 EDC errors that line up with one another.

 LBA:    -75 ->    -75, MSF: 00:01:00, count:   1109, offset: +0
 LBA:   1034 ->   1033, MSF: 00:15:58, count:      1, offset: +588
 LBA:   1035 ->   1033, MSF: 00:15:58, count:      1, offset: +1176
 LBA:   1036 ->   1033, MSF: 00:15:58, count:      1, offset: +1764
 LBA:   1037 ->   1033, MSF: 00:15:58, count:      1, offset: +2352
 LBA:   1038 ->   1033, MSF: 00:15:58, count:      1, offset: +2940
 LBA:   1039 ->   1033, MSF: 00:15:58, count:      1, offset: +3528
 LBA:   1040 ->   1033, MSF: 00:15:58, count:      1, offset: +4116
 LBA:   1041 ->   1033, MSF: 00:15:58, count:      1, offset: +4704
 LBA:   1042 ->   1033, MSF: 00:15:58, count:      1, offset: +5292
 LBA:   1043 ->   1033, MSF: 00:15:58, count:      1, offset: +5880
 LBA:   1044 ->   1044, MSF: 00:15:69, count: 309921, offset: +0

Dumping

Dump it like a normal disc.