Ghost Recon LiteOn

[Smokarose]

LiteOn 24102B
CloneCd 3.3.4.1
Win98 2nd

I can make a succesful backup of Gohst Recon. The game fully installs but WILL NOT play unless I insert the original CD into the cd rom. It WILL NOT work in a REGULAR CD ROM. It also WILL NOT work in the burner, even with hide cdr media checked in Clone CD. I have tried with all the recommended settings posted in various forums. I have falshed to the latest firmware from Lite On. No other game has given me so much trouble to backup.


Also, I only purchased this game 2 days ago (03-02-2002). Is it possible that the cd protection is better on some later releases? A scan said it was safedisk v2 but who knows.


I thought Lite On 24X was supposed to copy SD2 with flying colors. Any suggestions guys?

[I_am_Viper_69]

You may need to use an additional program like beta blocker(looking into it myself) to disable the protections. I also have a lite-on but I haven't used it yet on copy-protected games. It may just be something simple like your firmware version or the speed you burned at.

Viper 69

[Smokarose]

I have noticed some people reccomend to UNCHECK read sub channel data/audio. Thats the only thing I havent tried.

Already tried with old firmware, newest firmware, read and burn at 1X,2X4X,also max speed.

We will see what subchannels do for it, I shall post results

[packer]

Just tick fes. DO nOT tick AWS with the lite-on because it can do a perfect copy! you can use safedisc analyser to make sure what versoin of SD it uses! also don;'t tick any subchannel data. what settigns did you use within the fes setting?

The strange thing is that that lite-on should do it....

[Smokarose]

I finally made a true 1:1 working backup of Ghost Recon. You must write in RAW DAO. I tried DAO-SAO and DAO-SAO+SUB before at my failed attempts.

Also found that reading SUB audio/channel data makes no difference when reading. I tried both and either works well as long as you burn with RAW DAO.

Too bad I had to make 6 cds that I can't play from, but at least they can install the game. So I guess there ALMOST coasters...lol Hope this info can help someone out.

Ahh my faith is restored in the LiteOn burners.