A Little Unclear on Patching

[Yochana]

Hi,

After purchasing my Son a Playstation 1 and Modchip for his 11th Birthday, I now have to learn a little about backing up his games, especially with younger brothers and sisters around. I have downloaded and installed CDRwin, and am following the tutorial for copying a CD (using CDRwin) available at PSXCopyworld, but am a little unclear about how you know whether or not a Patch needs to be applied. Here where I live, all Playstation Games are PAL, so, using Harry Potter as an example, how can I know if a patch needs to be applied? I see that there are 3 patches available here at GameCopyWorld for the PSX version of Harry Potter, but they all seem to be related to NTSC - PAL, which I gather is unnecessary in our situation.

So, if there is a helpful webpage somewhere, or if someone is willing to clarify this for me, it would be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks!

[psx_paul]

Yochana - what CD-Writer have you got?
Check out http://elby.ch/english/products/clone_cd/writers/a.html to see if your writer supports RAW-DAO 96. If it does, grab yourself a copy of CloneCD (available is the downloads section at www.psxcopyworld.co.uk) and use that for 1:1 copies.

[Yochana]

Hi PSX_Paul,

Thanks for your reply. Although my BTC CD Writer wasn't in the list on the page you gave the URL to, I decided to download and install CloneCD anyway, after reading this on their site:

"If your CD recorder is not listed, simply try to apply CloneCD. MOST CD-RECORDERS WORK WITH CLONECD, EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT LISTED!"

From within CloneCD, the following Device Capabilities are listed for my particular Model: -

Device Capabilities:
Note: This information is provided by the unit, it might be inaccurate. CloneCD does not use this information!
Manufacturer: CDWriter
Product: IDE4x4x32
Revision: Z041
Can read CD-R Discs: Yes
Can read CD-RW Discs: Yes
Can read DVD Discs: No
Can read MultiSession Discs: Yes
Can read Digital Audio Discs: Yes
Digital Audio Data is accurate: Yes
Can write CD-R Discs: Yes
Can write CD-RW Discs: Yes
Compatible with CloneCD RAW-DAO: Yes
Compatible with CloneCD RAW-DAO Write Simulation: Yes
Supports writing of CD+G RAW-DAO: No
Compatible with CloneCD RAW-SAO: No
Supports Buffer Underrun Protection: No

So, if by "RAW-DAO 96" you mean "RAW-DAO" as listed above, then my CD-Writer does support that. So, if that is the case, does that mean that I can make a backup copy of any PSX game without needing to use any patches? (fingers crossed the answer is yes, although it is a little hard to type when they are.....)

Once again, thanks!

[psx_paul]

Yes, it should do
CloneCD tutorial at http://www.psxcopyworld.co.uk/CloneCD_Tutorial.htm
Good luck, let us know how you get on.