[Monty Burns]

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!)