what settings do i have to use in alcohol 120%
 

to make madden 2006 work without cd

yes i have the damn real thing bought from target for $24.99 compared to $50 for xbox

Scan the game with ProtectionID to find out what protection it use.
Then choose the protection profile in Alcohol120%.

safedisc 4 i think, and i could swear theres a couple of other threads on madden 2006

there's no safedisc 4 profile there

btw where do i get protection id?

try the sticky on the top, you cant miss it.

Use Safedisc2/3 profile instead.

PID

what read speed do i use?

yeah it doesn't work. still says cd not found. will have to stick with my damn cd

I dont think you can 1:1 burn safedsc 4 CD's anymore. Tried it with my Civ4. Didnt work :(

then how are these other people doing it? or claiming rather

Speed!
 

Some people said that you have to write at the lowest speed.

i did at 4x i need to go lower?

Writing at 1x times may help, I usually write at 8x but I would say that everyone or at least most people are running the game by mounting the image file in DT4, that's what I've been doing.
Actually if the first image I make doesn't work I then make 4 or 5 more all at different speeds and try each one untill I find one that works, its a pain in the arse but it works (most times) and for DVD's I use different settings as well. Like I check both Skip Read errors and Data Pos Measurement (at different speeds), then I'll check one and not the other on next image, then don't check any on the next image an so on.
I usually have 4 different settings which I use every time I copy a game and name each image I make filename1, filename2 and so on up to 4 and when one finally works I know by the number 1, 2, 3 or 4 in the image name which settings it was that worked.
Anyway as I said it is a pain in the arse but if you try this it should work eventually, I've had my Madden going since the day I bought it. I hope this helps anyway, good luck buddy. See ya!

you mean ripping to an image right? not burning? 1x didn't work either. could it be my optical drives?

Just hang on a minute, I just want to check something

Sorry WardoggOne, I was trying to find my copy of Madden 06, I was going to check the copy protection and then make another copy and let you know what settings to use, BUT, I could only find discs 2 & 3.
I have literally hundreds of play discs around here but as I don't use them very often occassionally some get misplaced.
Anyway, yes thats what I meant. Just use the image making Wizzard (In Alcohol) and save the image to your hard drive.
I'm sure it's SafeDisc 4 protected so you may have to use sd4hide, actually I think even anti-blah works even though it's a securom 7 hider.
I use a combination of a few things,
Virtual CD hide,
Anti-Blah,
sd4hide,
SR7,Stop_v1.2 and
securom_7_burner load.
Just download a couple of these and try them out, as I said you'd be suprised which ones work for different protections than they were designed for. Also when you use these hiders don't leave them open when running the game. Once you activate them either close the program and the folder you have it in and if it has a icon on the task bar like Virtual CD hide then just right click on the icon and hit exit.
Once activated DON'T leave any of them running! A lot of games won't run with them open on the desktop or on the taskbar.
Anyway if you have to just make a couple of image files at different speeds and see how you go, I'm sure that I made mine using the default Safedisc 2/3 settings but I used
8x to read the image.
I hope you get it working, so good luck.
Sorry I took so long.

i should use one of those even thos it doesn't say emulation detected? it just says that cd cannot be found

What do you mean, do you get that message when you load a burnt disc or when you mount an image file.
And have you got DT4 installed, my image works in both Alcohol and DT4 but I would use DT4 if I was you and make sure all the emulation options are on, (ticked).

they are all on and nothing