Age Of Empires : Age of Kings

[Kuaque]

How can I make a BACKUP of ALL the CD. I know that there is a track that I can't see, but I do not remember how to extract ALL the CD (about 600 MB, only can see 300).
THNX 4 UR HELP,

Kuaque

[Makee]

Rest of the CD is audio track both nero and easy cd creator can save the wav file to hardrive. You will need patch for the game to or the backup CD will not work

[Sotiris]

Use BlindRead, it is able to read more than 1 session (nero reads only one), that is the data and audio sessions. Then burn the image preferably with BlindWrite (SAO RAW works fine).

Info 1: AoE2 contains a lot of bad sectors at the start (some thousands...) so reading the first 20-30 MB takes most of the time, but then everything goes fast ;-)

Info 2: You don't need to enable smart/fast/../whatever reading of bad sectors in BlindRead or CloneCd, it makes no difference and you risk dumping a bad CDimage.

Info 3: BlindRead is 2-3 times faster in reading AoE2 than CloneCD!(BlindRead=25min, CloneCD=60min)

[oz_asia]

This applies to AOE2: Conquerer too?

I want to backup AOE2 Conquerer...so do i need to follow the same method as AOE.

[jantib]

Ive tried to copy many games with easy cd creator and it will only copy 50-60% of the original cd. How can i copy the full cd? If the rest is only audio files, why can´t i copy them?

[Sotiris]

oz_asia (03-12-2000 08:42):
This applies to AOE2: Conquerer too?

I want to backup AOE2 Conquerer...so do i need to follow the same method as AOE.

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I think that AOE2 Conq. uses different CD protection (i dont have it, so i havent tried!). But I hear that at least CloneCD can do the job...

[Sotiris]

jantib (03-12-2000 19:03):
Ive tried to copy many games with easy cd creator and it will only copy 50-60% of the original cd. How can i copy the full cd? If the rest is only audio files, why can´t i copy them?

Use a *real* replicator. Easy CD creator is more of "easy" than "cd creator".