Red Alert 2 / Yuri's Revenge need to make backups

[Sominex25]

I have looked all over for info on this.

All the links at mega games and gamefix are dead. Not working at all.


How can I succesfully make backups of these games?

I do own the originals

I would not mind making a copy, having it install ok, and then having to replace the "exe" files on the HD. That would be fine


Can anyone help me out?

Cheers!

[gh0sth@cker]

Both are protected by Safedisk 2.
Check the Clone CD site under supported writers to see if your drive is capable of almost perfect EFM coding.

If it is, then download Clone CD and let it do the rest.

If not, and CCD's AWS feature also doesn't help, then download Safedisk 2 Cleaner to unwrap the main exe's of both games and also the setup exe's of both games. The Red Alert series have protected the setup.exe with Safedisk also, so don't forget the unwrap them.

When you have created fixed exe's using Safedisk Cleaner, copy the contents of the disk to your hard drive and replace the original exe's with the new fixed ones (you may want to create a folder on the soon to be cd called original exe's with the original exe's in it in case you need them to patch the game). Then burn the disk using Nero with the same cd label.

[Sominex25]

Originally posted by gh0sth@cker
Both are protected by Safedisk 2.
Check the Clone CD site under supported writers to see if your drive is capable of almost perfect EFM coding.

If it is, then download Clone CD and let it do the rest.

If not, and CCD's AWS feature also doesn't help, then download Safedisk 2 Cleaner to unwrap the main exe's of both games and also the setup exe's of both games. The Red Alert series have protected the setup.exe with Safedisk also, so don't forget the unwrap them.

When you have created fixed exe's using Safedisk Cleaner, copy the contents of the disk to your hard drive and replace the original exe's with the new fixed ones (you may want to create a folder on the soon to be cd called original exe's with the original exe's in it in case you need them to patch the game). Then burn the disk using Nero with the same cd label.

Ok, downloaded the file and will try it now

When you say "copy the contents of the CD to my HD" do you mean just drag all the files from the CD nto the HD, and burn each of those files (with the new EXES) onto a new CD?

This will make the backup CD like a brand new oriiginal I can setup and play from at any time?

[dragonclaws]

Well first of all hi to A WESTWOOD FAN anyway i copied the original red alert 2 allied disk of red alert 2 using clone cd version 4 and my cd writer just set the settings according to that which are mentioned at game copy world and your on your way.When u try to copy a safe disk protected game u will get lots of read errors in the begning and it will take atleast 1hour and 30 minutes to make an image. it take about 30 min to just go to 1% during reading and then it will speed up..up to 49% and again there are errors till 51% after which u will have no problem reading.Any way good thing is that the safe disk copy protection is also copied and hence u will be able to make a really good copy of red alert 2.Or u can patch the image and remove the safe disk protection forever.

[gh0sth@cker]

Originally posted by dragonclaws
Well first of all hi to A WESTWOOD FAN anyway i copied the original red alert 2 allied disk of red alert 2 using clone cd version 4 and my cd writer just set the settings according to that which are mentioned at game copy world and your on your way.When u try to copy a safe disk protected game u will get lots of read errors in the begning and it will take atleast 1hour and 30 minutes to make an image. it take about 30 min to just go to 1% during reading and then it will speed up..up to 49% and again there are errors till 51% after which u will have no problem reading.Any way good thing is that the safe disk copy protection is also copied and hence u will be able to make a really good copy of red alert 2.Or u can patch the image and remove the safe disk protection forever.

Yes this is the best method, but it is hardware dependant - not all writers are capable of copying Safedisk 2, that is why I outlined the steps of applying a crack if cloning it didn't work.

[mwitters]

how do you patch the image?