Ok I checked with him and he says he made a backup of resident evil 1 with Adaptec easy cd creator 3.1 which is an old software package that came with his old 4x burner. I did not see his backup myself so i cant confirm if he did get it to work but he says he did. You can try that if you can still find it around. There may be other gamers here that have had some sucess with these particlar games too. Hopefully one of them may share their methods if so. Mean while you can try to see if you can find/buy a copy of that old software and try it.
One more thing, if you do have any scratches or other defects, you can try using car polish on them and see if that helps. I had a disk in the past that was severly scratched and I used a car buffer with a small dab of car polish and it resurfaced them like new again. You may try that if this is the case with your originals, and you have an electric buffer. You could also get one of those disk doctors but Im not sure how well they work. Good luck with the backups. Hope some of this was useful. Let us know if you get it to work.
