CD burner recommendation?

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Steve H

I've installed a program on the kid's computer that builds 'virtual CD
drives' in order to allow CD's to be stored and run from a virtual
drive.
This is to prevent the kids from trashing £40 games CDs in their haste
( OK, fight ) to play their favourite games.

However, it seems that some CDs simply refuse to be archived in this
manner - so it seems a sensible option to make copies of them, and the
original disc stored for safekeeping.
But - the program that came with my burner seems to give up rather too
easily when it comes to making copies of certain CDs.

Is there a program out there that's a bit better at copying CDs than
mine ( Nero Ahead ) with regard to copyright protection.
And please, let's not have a debate about the ethics - at least not
until the CD manufacturers offer free replacements for damaged CDs.

Regards,
 
I've installed a program on the kid's computer that builds 'virtual CD
drives' in order to allow CD's to be stored and run from a virtual
drive.
This is to prevent the kids from trashing £40 games CDs in their haste
( OK, fight ) to play their favourite games.

However, it seems that some CDs simply refuse to be archived in this
manner - so it seems a sensible option to make copies of them, and the
original disc stored for safekeeping.
But - the program that came with my burner seems to give up rather too
easily when it comes to making copies of certain CDs.

Is there a program out there that's a bit better at copying CDs than
mine ( Nero Ahead ) with regard to copyright protection.
And please, let's not have a debate about the ethics - at least not
until the CD manufacturers offer free replacements for damaged CDs.

Regards,
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There are probably better newsgroups to be posting this request in.

Hands down, Alcohol 120% is probably the best copy protection bypass
around, with CD Clone second. Alcohol will also make a virtual copy
for the hard drive.

http://www.gameburnworld.com/cdburningsoftware.htm

I don't know of any freeware that does it . . . Perhaps someone else
does.
 
Steve said:
I've installed a program on the kid's computer that builds 'virtual
CD drives' in order to allow CD's to be stored and run from a
virtual drive.
This is to prevent the kids from trashing £40 games CDs in their
haste ( OK, fight ) to play their favourite games.

However, it seems that some CDs simply refuse to be archived in this
manner - so it seems a sensible option to make copies of them, and
the original disc stored for safekeeping.
But - the program that came with my burner seems to give up rather
too easily when it comes to making copies of certain CDs.

Is there a program out there that's a bit better at copying CDs than
mine ( Nero Ahead ) with regard to copyright protection.
And please, let's not have a debate about the ethics - at least not
until the CD manufacturers offer free replacements for damaged CDs.
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DiscDump
Free
http://www.geocities.com/ddumpfrontend/download.htm

To make ISO images of a CD. Once you have the image, any burner will write
it.
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DiscDump is a small Tool that lets you extract ("dump") the contents of a CD
to an image file on your harddisc. The main target is dumping of protected
CDs. However, you can dump any kinds of CDs with DDump as long as your
reader can read the CD and your burner is able to burn the built image.
DDump uses the ASPI layer (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface) to access
the CD-ROM devices, so you must have such a layer installed. DDump creates a
RAW mode ISO image and a CUE sheet. It also generates a LOG file which
contains unrecoverable errors to shorten the extraction time. There are some
sophisticated extraction modes for LaserLock, SafeDisc and Dummy files
protections. SecuROM is not yet supported. If you aren't sure about the
protection, you can ommit the mode switch. This will run DDump in the basic
mode which can handle all CDs but may be somewhat slow on some drives.

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Sorry I have to be a stickler about the detail's "dadioh" left out... you
need a cd-writer that can always burn the correct "efm encoding" the elby
site used to have a list but I know mt asus asus crw-4012a is one that does
it correct. as well as my crw-5224a you then most likely will need a
setting/protection detector like clony xxl to tell you how to set
read&write correctly to burn ALL protections [i.e.SDv2] 1 more thing before
you do all that though a lot of ganes just have atip detection and they
know it's a cdr... run the clonecd tray and "hide cdr media" but you need
to set your regional settings to say "English, Zimbabwe" and ok and
restart... or just get a no-cd patch from gamecopyworld.com...
 
Sorry I have to be a stickler about the detail's "dadioh" left out... you
need a cd-writer that can always burn the correct "efm encoding" the elby
site used to have a list but I know mt asus asus crw-4012a is one that does
it correct. as well as my crw-5224a you then most likely will need a
setting/protection detector like clony xxl to tell you how to set
read&write correctly to burn ALL protections [i.e.SDv2] 1 more thing before
you do all that though a lot of ganes just have atip detection and they
know it's a cdr... run the clonecd tray and "hide cdr media" but you need
to set your regional settings to say "English, Zimbabwe" and ok and
restart... or just get a no-cd patch from gamecopyworld.com...
Click to expand...
I went with that last option in the end.
I found that even once I'd got past the cd copy protection, some games
refused to work if they even so much as sniffed a virtual drive
utility, even if it wasn't being used for that particular game.

Regards,
 
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