alcohol desyncs the audio for bincue rips, cdrwin does proper rips. Here's a guide for using CDRWin for proper dumps:
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Area code should be pretty strightforward, if you have a japanese game set it to Japan, if you have a European game set it to Europe, I don't see whats complicated with this.