farcry help again

adogslife · #1 28-03-2004, 18:42

ive got a liteon 52x24x52 and a pioneer106
ive got ver 146 of alcohol and diskdump and fireburner
what i need is a guide using these to make a backup of farcry if possible
need a guide that shows what should be on and what should be off as im a noob with alcohol, i cant even get the virtual drive to work with alc
please help
is it possible to use dd and fb to copy sd 3.2?? what settings?
tia
ive looked into all the guides and non seem to work or help for me

TippeX · #2 28-03-2004, 19:15

use alcohol,safedisc 2/3 settings.. why not experiment and you can answer your own question

adogslife · #3 28-03-2004, 20:16

i thought it was obvious i had!! tried different settings and ive used the safedisc 2/3 settings with no luck
thats why im asking for more detailed guide to help as i though the liteon would copy sd protection from what i can gather here
maybe some useful replies telling me what should be enabled and what shouldnt , with burn, read speeds
tia

GLH · #4 28-03-2004, 20:59

In Alcohol you don't have to make the setting manualy.
Just choose the Safedisc2/3 profile from drop-down-menu and all needed setting will be set.
The only thing you can try is to lower the read/write speed.

noyb1 · #5 29-03-2004, 00:53

@adogslife

Far Cry (U.S. 5 CD Version) has SafeDisc 3.15.010.

I have several Lite-On 52246S (52x24x52) units and I can tell you for a fact, that it seems, with "perhaps" certain exceptions (since exceptions to every rule are always possible) that, these units are NOT able to burn a 1:1 copy of Far Cry to disc at the moment, at any speed, at least, not with the currently available software for the task (Alcohol, BW, CloneCD, etc).

The best way you can get around it for now is, make an image using Alcohol120%, BW4/5, etc and mount it via the Alcohol120% or Daemon Tools virtual drive, just make sure to install using expert mode and change the driver name to something else in order to avoid the blacklisting in Far Cry. Actually, the image is small enough to fit on a CD-R, so burn the image file to CD-R and mount it from there with a virtual drive, problem solved

Trust this helps, good luck.

adogslife · #6 29-03-2004, 12:37

my version is australian 5cd and it is sd3.2 i used arayscanner
thanks for that nob1 i was hoping to be able to make a working backup, but some people must have different versions of sd
thanks anyway

noyb1 · #7 29-03-2004, 14:08

@adogslife

No problem, you're welcome.

Yeah, it's not uncommon at all for the protection type and/or version to be different from one country to another.

One thing is pretty certain though, if SD v3.15.010 is giving the 52246s lite-on trouble, any version above that isn't going to be any better.

About your backup, if you use the virtual drive method I suggested, you pretty much do have a backup, not exactly what you wanted to have perhaps, but it's the next best thing and gets the job done.

Good luck.