Safedisc 2 & Red Alert 2 -- Copied via Plextor :-)

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makin a backup of my Red Alert 2 CD which has Safedisc 2 copy protection. I used the settings from Clony to set the Fast Error skip settings and used the Plextor 12/10/32A with Firmware 1.07 to read to a image, then burn back out.

I put the backup CDs in a 48X CDROM and it read the game and installed it all. I played the game for darn near 2 hours and it works fine, and restarted again, with no errors.

What has me scratchin my head is the Plextor supposedly only makes copies that has to be played in the same burner, with a firmware of 1.04. As you can tell from above, my firmware is 1.07 and it does install and play fine from a CDROM drive. So maybe a lot of the info on the web is incorrect, or maybe the fact that the CDROM is a 48X which means it is newer (6 months old) is hedging my results.

Just wanted to pass this along, and see if anyone else has seen anything like this with the Plextors. No need to respond if you do not own a Plextor 12/10/32A. Thanks.