BurnOut OpenSource Protection Analyser

[GF7]

Hi everyone!
Since nearly 2 years I am developing a copy protection analyser called BurnOut which is OpenSource. Some of the information how to recognize a protection i got from cdmediaworld and i want to express my gratitude to the well collected information on this site. I would be pleased to see my programm in the CDMediaWorld utilities section, too and i want to obtain some opinions on BurnOut
You can download it at: BurnOut at SourceForge

Yours
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[Joe Forster/STA]

Do I assume it correctly that it needs the M$ .NET framework (what version?) installed? I saw no reference to that in the documentation but it wouldn't work at all, crashes with an idiotic "[BurnOut.exe - Application Error] The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application. [OK]" error message.

[GF7]

You need at least .Net Framework 1.1 installed. Same as Copy-Discovery 2000.

[TippeX]

that sucks, having to install a +20mb 'framework' to run an application,
sorry, but i'll stick with protectionid..

and it only scans cd/dvd's ?

scanned a disk i know has securom... your tool reported 'dummy files' as the protection...

[Joe Forster/STA]

If it needs an extra system component then you should mention it at some obvious place. (I'm definitely not gonna install M$ .NET, though, until I can avoit it...!)

[GF7]

Originally Posted by TippeX

scanned a disk i know has securom... your tool reported 'dummy files' as the protection...

can you send me "the" executable of this disk so i can fix this for the next release?

Originally Posted by TippeX

that sucks, having to install a +20mb 'framework' to run
and it only scans cd/dvd's ?

yeah thats right! but most windows pcs have installed it, and you will need it for more and more programms.

Originally Posted by TippeX

and it only scans cd/dvd's ?

right, but perhaps the next version will have a feature to scan files, too.

[TippeX]

cant send u the exe, as its a dvd, with files that aren't executable, pid finds its securom no problems but cant report an accurate version, compared to pid your program has a hell of a long way to go, and using the .net platform i think is a bad idea... perhaps u might need to rethink things...

[GF7]

Against cdkiller's pid BurnOut is like a "noob" prog. And it wasn't written to rival with it.
But can you give me some constructive criticism (before i'm falling into depression )

[TippeX]

i did, the scan for cd/dvd needs updated to scan for folder/file too, you'll also most likely have to impliment sector scan stuff too, why not msg cdk and see about helping in the development for pid instead of making a 'rival' program... course, you'll have to be able to code in something not .net orientated

[Muji-FightR]

Obviously he has to be good at ASM since it's written in "pure Win32ASM", whatever that means (M,T,F -ASM ?)

[GF7]

Originally Posted by TippeX

cant send u the exe, as its a dvd, with files that aren't executable, pid finds its securom no problems but cant report an accurate version

But can you send me the file in which pid finds securom?

[TippeX]

its a 4.8 gig file, so no...
it finds it via sector scan, same as ur tool should do...

[Joe Forster/STA]

Uhm, mind you, writing a software without an acceptable amount of life-like test material is bold...

[TippeX]

especially as it has been 'in development for 2 years'

[GF7]

address has changed to http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/burnout