EvilDead BITPOOL-Protected ??
 

Recently I bought EvilDead-Hail to the king.

As always I tried to make a backup. First of all, let's detect the copy-protection with some analysers. The most interesting result was from cdpd: BITPOOL. What kind of protection is it, never heard of it before ??
Well allright, cdpd isn't the best tool to detect a copy-protection, but:

1) I tried copying it the normal way (without clone, writer
isn't supported) with nero -> no chance (which I expected)
2) Trying to get a patch from gcw -> found!
3) Copying Cd1 to hd -> failed !!

The problem is that we are talking about the install-disc (the playdisc isn't protected!).
Well I hear you say: "So what Shithead, go and install the game from the original and backup the playdisc. You are surely not going to install the game twice a day ??

Well you are right !! But I always want to know how to backup protected cds, whether it is necessary or not.

So here is what I did:

- Save the System stats
- Install game from original
- Take a look at which modifications have been made
to system

Setup only modifies registry

Save the desired branches of the registry to one reg-file, save this file to the InstallDir of the game and then burn the contents of the InstallDir to a CDR.

Whenever I have to install the game again, I will copy the contents of the CDR to any folder, modify the regfile, import it and play the game. (Tested, works fine).

Is there any other way to make a backup of a "BITPOOL"-protected game (without clone of course !!) and which games also use this protection.

(A boring and far too long post ?? Maybe you are right!)

Bitpool?
I think I would prefer to just say "NOT PROTECTED"
This is copyable with even the most crappy software there is.

Well, maybe you are right, but then my almost new plextor cd-rom as well as my writer are both damaged, because I am not even able to copy the contents of the the original CD (tried one of a friend, too) to the HD.

Of course, we are only talking about the install-disc (no#1), as disc no#2 isn't protected at all.

Any further clues anybody ??

If you cannot copy the contents of the cd to your hard drive then that tells me that your cd is damaged.

Okay, I'll ##### this out, even though I have already tried the original of a friend with the same success.

I am going to try a third cd, tell you the result and then maybe I am satisfied (finally).
(But I hope you are right, as I don't need another copy-prot, nor would I be pleased to buy new cd/-r)

CU

I had a perfect example of bad pressings.
Tried 7 copies of Wheel Of Time before I discovered they belonged to a batch run of 15000 that were bad pressings.

You got it dude.
After trying 11(!!) cds I have finally found one which seems to work okay.
So my cd and cd/r still seem to work, but this foolish tool (cdpd) still insists on a bitpool-protection, whatever it may be !!