CD Protection question

[Swordman]

i got some games and software, i try to make backup so i can keep the original, but it seems to be problems since i always failed to do so. anyone know how to by pass those protection? please help me thanks.
ps: i am not making illegal copies, since i keep all the stuff for my own use.

 

[ForeverSilky]

Go to: www.cdrsoft.net, download the clonecd trial version. Cloncd can usually copy protected discs.

 

[damocles]

www.gamecopyworld.com is good too.
www.cdmediaworld.com has lots of features.

These days i back up everything, i failed to do so with Baldurs gate and a disk got trashed. I also think its fair to use no-cd cracks. I did this with unreal so that i can keep my legit disk safe

 

[Descend492]

anybody know how to copy Quake 3? I hear the copy protection's unbreakable, or something else keeps you from copying it

 

[Mark R]

I'm led to believe that, as long as your writer is fully supported, Clone CD can copy any disc.

 

[kind-of-blue]

some cd-rws don't support the subchannel read/write that clonecd uses to crack the cd protection. My Teac 55s didn't, my new Plextor 12/10/32 does

Moral is to check and make sure your cdrw is supported by clonecd
http://www.gamecopyworld.com
http://www.cdmediaworld.com

 

[Swordman]

thanks guys for the information, i trashed more than 10 disc because i don't know there is protection on the disc, i use easy cd creator 4 on my 12/10/32 plextor cd-rw, what a wasteeeeeeeeeeee. hell with protection man. we are not selling the copy. so why need for making us suffer by putting these protection.

 

[Swordman]

i tried to backup the diablo, but it seems, the clonecd is not working because when i want to use the copy disc to play, it says it need the disc, which means the copy disc is not playable. any other method i can use?

 

[Mark R]

To save wasting CD-R discs on dud copies, why not try using a CDRW?

Anyhow, Clone CD comes with default settings which aren't ideal. Try the following settings.

Enable:
Read Subcode from data tracks
and
Read Subcode from audio tracks

Disable:
Fast Error skip
and
Intelligent bad sector scanner

 

[Prodigy^]

"I did this with unreal so that i can keep my legit disk safe"

hehe, Unreal hasn't needed the cd since the first patch or so

 

[Swordman]

Mark, i tried what you said but the program says the cd-rom does not support the Read Subcode from data tracks. so is there any other way to do it?

 

[damocles]

I did this with unreal so that i can keep my legit disk safe"

"hehe, Unreal hasn't needed the cd since the first patch or so"

Really, i didnt know that. Cool, might paste back the exe then

 

[WetSprocket]

Swordman i tried to backup the diablo, but it seems, the clonecd is not working What os are you using? This may not be your problem but I had a neat thing go wrong with Diablo. In Win98 I couldn't get it to read the CD. I found on the forums that if you take the cdfs.vxd from win95 and replace the one in win98 It worked perfectly. Not sure why and dont care if it works. Hope this helps someone out.

 

[IceStorm]

CloneCD copies Diablo II with no problems.

You need a drive that can read audio and data track subcode data. My Toshiba DVD-ROM drives do so just fine (SD-M1212 and SD-M1201).

I burned the Diablo Play CD using a Plextor 12x4x32x SCSI CD-RW. I have never used the master Play disc to play Diablo. The other two discs, Install and Cinematics, were copied fine from Adaptec's Easy CD Creator.

Unreal Tournament uses SafeDisc protection. You need a drive that can read and write errors. Again, my Toshiba drives can read errors just fine (takes about 15 minutes to image UT), and the Mitsumi CR-4802TE I used to write my backup disc writes errors just fine.

It all comes down to what your software and hardware can do. For backing up my games, CloneCD's not let me down yet. http://www.elaborate-bytes.com is their main site. Check the hardware requirements for CloneCD to see what is compatible.

Just my $0.02

 

[randypj]

What Mark R said, to backup my legal DiabloII play cd on my Plex.
--Randy

 

[Bagheera]

What kind of games do you have? Most of my games (No not cheap crappy titles) doesn't have write protection...