spyro 3 + patches?

[dragonfire9651]

I would like to back-up spyro 3 for my young son, as he is very heavy handed with the disc. i read in megagames that it has heavy protecting to stop it being copied.i have downloaded a patch from this site called pdx-s3pf, will this let it be copied and be used, and if so how do you use it with nero5.5. any help will be read and used. Ta!