Copying Traffic Giant or similair protected game

[Cman]

Hi everyone,

What a drama.....Three days ago I started trying to copy my Traffic Giant PC-CDROM.
First the simple way, copy the entire disc to the HD, but what's this ?? Read error on a simple windows copy command ?!
Second, try NERO (Latest) to extract the cd, I configured it to ingore or replace errors, but guess what ? Read error, stuck at 28% of the disc.
Trying to get a LITTLE bit tired of this shit...
Third try : I ask CDRWIN to do the job, it says it is skipping the errors on the disc, left it running for an entire night processing errors. When I wake up in the morning : Stuck at 28% and about 3400 ERRORS !! Method FAILED !!!
For the fourth try I used CloneCD, guess what it Extracted the entire CD to an Image file!! But my CD writer was incompatible with CloneCd and therefore couldn't write it !! AAAAAHHH!
My final atttempt, BlindRead. BlindRead read the cd as fast as the wind and extracted it into an image file. BlindRead writes a CUE SHEET file, so it could be imported right into CDRWIN. My frustrations where over.

You might think this story ends here, but it has a little tail to it.
The CUE SHEET was NOT accepted by CDRWIN, it said illegal PREGAP in line 9. I checked and changed the 2 second gap to a 3 second gap and the problem was solved !!
Traffic Giant Copied !!!!

You might encounter more of these games, with almost infinite read errors. It's not a protection I have seen explained somewhere, but for every protection, there is a cure !

Good luck to all you COPYING guys out there and keep on COPYING!!