Blacklisting?!?

[blitz_wolf]

Hello, I am new to the forums and new to all of this.

I currently paid for and own Star Wars Battlefront II for pc.

I also have Alcohol 120% and want to make an image and mount it on a virtual drive so I can store the cd away for safe keeping.

My question is, what is blacklisting and would I be safe from it and not require to use SR7.Stop or any other program like that?

I own the full retail version..

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

[TippeX]

sr7.stop is old, try yasu, and yes if you intend to use the image to play from, chances are you'll need to use and anti-blacklister, if this scares you in some way, just use the original disk and original exe and all will be fine

[blitz_wolf]

Ok cool.

I also bought the game Star Wars Jedi Academy, made a .iso image and mounted it to Alcohol 120% and it works perfectley. Didn't need Yasu or anything else.

Now can I just make a .iso image for Star Wars Battlefront 2 and mount it to Alcohol 120% or is it different since it uses a valid cd key? Or would i still have to use Yasu for it?

Thanks for your reply...

[GLH]

Simply try it out, if it works without YASU.
The blacklisting thing has nothing to do with your cd-keys.
Blacklisted by the copy protections are older version of tools like YASU, not your cd-key.

[TippeX]

also .iso files are USELESS for backing up copy protected programs...
unsure what protection (if any) that the games you mentioned use
but for the future, mds / clonecd / blindwrite format are the best to
use to make backups with

[Morglum007]

Jedi academy isnt protected with anything, so an iso will do the job.
What a great game, and what an old era! when lucasarts games werent protected and were so good games! (Rogue squadron, jedi academy, jedi knigh....)

Good luck!

[Muyfa666]

I agree. Wonderful games from days past. :-)

For Jedi Academy you should use the available crack which would let you play the game without the CD's. I don't know if it will work online thou, since I never even tried to play JA online.

[Karrade]

Actually Jedi Academy IS protected. SecuRom 4.8something.
I read a couple posts about how to patch the image so a backup will work... I was shown 2 different ways (BWA file twincreated to a CCD via Alcoholer) and (Aray mds with just Alcohol 120) while the images seem to work onvirtual drives, burning them to an actual CD never worked for me. Not sure it it'll work online though, didn't get that far.