can someone just give me abit of general information on pc game copying please?

[adz]

well ive tried to copy a few pc games from the originals using nero, but when its readin it just seems to stop and nothin happens.
can some one just giv me the basics on copying pc games plz
thanx
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[Raks55]

I think think this info will help you i cut and pasted it from another posted i did i couple of days ago.

First go to CD media world, on the left side there is a menu look for a link CD Protections and read up on the different protections there are, also click on CD/DVD Utilities and download some of the Protection Detection Programs, these make it easy to find out the different protections games use. The most common protection are Safedisk 1, Safedisk 2, Securerom 1 and 2 and dummy files, Now download Nero burning rom, BlindWrite Suite, Deamon Tools and most importantly CloneCD. BlindWrite Suite and CloneCD only work is your CD-Writer is supported so do some test burns to see if they work. Nero can't really copy games but you need it if you want to patch a game instead. Daemon tools is not a program to copy games but is for running game images you made using Clone CD and other programs it makes a virtual cd rom drive on your system. An image is a big file around 700 MB's, it is usefull to run the image using Daemon to test the image to see if it works. If it does then burn it to cd. To learn how to use the programs read the readme files and help files CAREFULLY. Patches are so games can be played without the CD or to make imperfect copies. You can make perfect copies of most games using Clone CD and Blindwrite. REMEMBER these programs have to support your CD-Writer to work. Hope this helps.