So it seems the problem was simpler than I thought, sacrebleu!
Disappointed I am not - your goal wuz to defeat this Safedisk 2.8 sh*t, right ?
However puzzled I am - U claim you don't need any sort of active emulation to hide ATIP since you don't have 2 run Booze 120%
About this I am more than skeptical: in fact my guess is, even though U don't run Alcohol, there is still some sort of active program (or part of a program, like .dll or something) running in the background which disables any software's ability to seek ATIP. In other words, emulation is still
active hehe...
But there is a simpler, FAR simpler alternative which should allow you to do without such emulation and spare the extra mem used to this effect:
DON'T RUN YOUR BACKUP IN A CD-WRITER! 
Indeed CD/DVD-readers can't read ATIP, only burners can do that. So if U run your backup in a CD-reader, the game won't be able to tell between CD-ROM and CD-R, regardless of whether an emulation is running or not.
By the way, I didn't know safedisk checks ATIP - this must be but a recent feature (safedisk 2.8 & later)
As I C, Alcohol doesn't support pregap
reading - the losers
. In case you do run into a pregap prob, apart from Discjuggler (expen$ive) and Blindwrite (fickle...), Discdump also supports pregap reading, and it's freeware!! In fact, for all non-hardware protection (ie. schemes other than Securom 4.8+ and Starforce 1/2/3), it is said that nothing beats the Discdump/Fireburner combo
Burn what can't be burnt, Liteon rulez!!!
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