new protection

captos · #1 02-04-2001, 04:25

I did try backup my game EVER GRACE on my new Ricoh9120A burner with CloneCD, but I did get strange massage - RICOH DVD/CDRW is not compatible with Clone CD!!!. So, I did try with CDRWIN - did not detected inserted CD!! The same BlinRead!? Can you help, please? This never happened before. This game is on "silver CD" with 6 PS logos on it. My system is Windows ME.Is it new protection, or something wrong with my system?
Regards Anton

#2 02-04-2001, 13:25

hi m8,

I did get a similar problem when trying to copy Microsoft Age of Empires II on the PC. It just refuses to let you copy the contents of the disc to the hard drive unless you run the setup.exe.

Anyway, that isn't relevant to the psx scene but a similar type of protection system could be used (there was a microsoft ring around the cd which i think was blocking me from copying it). I can remember i once had a similar problem with speed freaks, but i did manage to get around the problem, but i can't remember how.

I'll look into it for you and see whether i can remember how i got it to work.

l8er,

Animal.

#3 02-04-2001, 13:49

hi m8,

is ur cd writer a combi drive? have u written from it b4?
as far as i am aware, u need specific cdwriting software to use it? (well the combi drives we use at work do anyway)

as for a new form of protection i would not think so, i would have heard about it by now if it was.

cheers

captos · #4 02-04-2001, 16:07

Quote:

vampirella (02-04-2001 21:49):
hi m8,

is ur cd writer a combi drive? have u written from it b4?
as far as i am aware, u need specific cdwriting software to use it? (well the combi drives we use at work do anyway)

as for a new form of protection i would not think so, i would have heard about it by now if it was.

cheers

Yes my writwr is a combi drive.
No I do not know is b4,and pleas let mi know what is the specific writingsoftware.
Thank you

Warlock · #5 02-04-2001, 17:35

Do you have a dvd burner??Because Ever Grace is a dvd rom game and it cannot be copyed without one!

NiQ · #6 03-04-2001, 17:46

DVD Games cannot be read with the same software that you would with normal games...Give up on the DVD copy till ripping software is avail! (You would never be able to burn them!)

boba fett · #7 04-04-2001, 01:19

Yep, thats right, your trying to rip a DVD titled PS2 game.......of course your cd-rw or whatever device your using to read (rip) the data with isn't going to find any data; because you can't read DVD format with those devices.....try another approach....and when you figure it out tell the rest of us how to back up our DVD titles..