9yr old scratches his cd's

[flangie]

My nine yr old wrecks his pc games all the time by scratching them. I thought you could just burn them so I did. When he put's the burnt cd in instead of the original its wont work and the message is "please insert original cd". My question is how do you copy them so they work as the rebuying the games is getting to be expensive?

[GLH]

You can read the FAQs. When you have specific question after reading the rules, you can ask them here.

[flangie]

I read the FAQ's as directed but as I know nothing about this type of thing I dont understand the terminology used. I made a guess (simply because it was mentioned so many times) to use blindwrite. Please tell me if this correct. And if it is why do you have to use a cd/rw, I have always used cd-r for all my burning so I was shocked that they wouldnt work. Mind you I have only ever copied music cd's and burnt backups of my pc etc

[DABhand]

Ill explain..


Nowadays games come with sophisticated protections which prevent copying, mainly of course to stop piracy being so easy to do.


But most games you may find a no-cd crack or a mini-image. These will help your son play a game without the need of the cd, which will help with life of your media.


Also most publishers offer a service to replace worn media for a small fee.

[flangie]

still dont know whether blindwrite is the correct program to use so I can copy a 2 disk game for my son that works just like the original. Also what is a no-crack cd or mini image. I absolutely do not understand any of this terminology

[Joe Forster/STA]

Sorry but pretty much any guide or FAQ that deals with circumventing copy protection does use the same or very similar terminologies, so you'll have to get familiar with them some time...

[flangie]

you have plenty to say about learning the terminology but I dont hear you offering to explain or letting me know if blindwrite is the correct program for what I want !!!!!!!!!!

[Joe Forster/STA]

Your two choices are Alcohol 120% and Blindwrite. Blindwrite may be better with copy protections that are based on the CD topology (the newest ones), so, yes, you might be better off with that one.

[RincewindTheWiz]

flangie please don't get mad. The simple truth is that copy protections have been rapidly evolving the past few years. It used to be rather easy to make a fully working backup, but nowadays you have to be willing to at least learn a bit about the working methods to copy specific copy protections and even then it will be difficult. If you do not like this, remember that we don't like it either but the fault lies with the publishers using these schemes. They have been trying for years to prevent you and everyone else from making backups so don't be surprised if it's hard to do. There hasn't been a single copy protection that has stopped pirates from making copies, and the publishers know that. These copy protections are in place to stop ordinary folks (like you) from making the backups they're legally entitled to. Remember that the ultimate (and only possible) protest against these sorts of practices is still the good old-fashioned boycot, they won't listen to anything else.

If you still want to make backups, read the FAQS and try to learn a bit or this will be straight impossible for you. Cracks are easier to use but the copy protections get harder and harder to crack so fewer and fewer cracks get made.