On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 20:05, Mental Patient wrote: > If you're talking about backing up copy protected windows games... do > it in windows. I know of no linux cdrecording software that properly > reproduces subchannel data.
Well, you may be a mental patient, but you're a smart mental patient! > > > Am I dealing with copy protection, or is this something else? > Probably. Definitely. More in a minute.. <SNIP> > In addition to copying the subchannel data, you need to get the burning > software to reproduce it. Windows has clonecd and other software... > linux has no need for this. I guess if someone felt like writing it they > could, but I really dont know where to get docs on how to properly > implement it. > > If you have no clue what I'm talking about when I refer to subchannel > data, look here: > > http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/44/4 This was very helpful. Thanks for the pointers, both to this site, and to CloneCD. After doing some reading at this site and Googling around a bit, I eventually learned about a number of programs - CloneCD, Alcohol 120% and Blindwrite being the most popular. Apparently CloneCD is not being developed much any more, and the Alcohol 120% site is very active, so I gave it a try. After burning 2 coasters while learnnin to use the program (and making it much more difficult than it had to be!) I got a good copy in about 10 minutes of using the program correctly. One very useful site is here http://www.makeabackup.com/modules.php?name=Game_Protections_List which give a good list of exactly what protection specific games are using. Armed with this info you then know how to run Alcohol 120% using its default settings and things jsut work. > It should be noted that not all cd-r's can reproduce this data. > Very true I found out. Luckily all of mine have the capability to burn subchannel data correctly, or appear to. Again, thanks very much. While I wish I could do this in Linux, and possibly will find I can one of these days, it's great to have this working right now. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
