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Firstly, disregard most of what Double Tap has just posted.
Of course, a perfect copy relies upon hardware and software.
However, RAW extraction and burning is down to your hardware of your drive. CloneCD and Blindwrite merely utilise the properties of newer readers and writers to extract the data of a CD without altering it (hence RAW, not COOKED). This has nothing to do with buffer underruns, which is when your burner runs out of data as it writes faster than your HD or reader can pass it on (which is what JustLINK, etc do). This is all about whether the firmware of your reader will attempt to correct the "errors" in the byte patterns on a CD as it reads them, and before it passes them to your copy software.
So, if you have a RAW capable reader and burner, and a program that utilises this method of extraction, then all should be well.
Sadly, it's a little more complicated than that due to subchannels within a CD's data structure (8 in total = 4Mb).The methods employed to protect a CD from copying can use these subchannels as well to prevent copying. I'm sorry but I really cannot be arsed to explain in great detail the different systems out there but if you do a little research then you'lll find many answers.
What I will say is that your disc (swat3) is protected by safedisc 1 (i believe). This means you need a burner capable of DAO (disc at once) burning (means that the disc is written all at once with no gaps between the tracks). There is no requirement for subchannel data with safedisc 1. This is because SD1 relies upon errors on the CD to prevent copying. Thus as stated above, any reader capable of reading RAW and therefore not correcting these intentional errors, will copy safedisc 1.
Phew. Anway, Dracos, here's a few tips for a newbie.
1. Go to gamecopyworld above and download Clony XL. This will identify the protection on a CD you want to copy and pass the read and write settings to CloneCD.
2. Indeed as Double Tap says, go to www.elaborate-bytes.com site and ##### to see if your writer is RAW DAO supported.
3. Forget "mode-2 cd image" etc. Use Clony and keep with it's settings for CloneCD
And finally, please give as much info as you can about your set-up if you want more detailed help. I.e. we need to know what burner and software you are using.
And if you're still all at sea, email me and I'll try to bring you up to speed.
Laters all
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