Most (if not all) video games use some sort of protection above simple disc checks, so first you should identify what protection exists, a good article on this is here http://64.191.87.123/games/gcw_cd-backup.shtml. the protections used are detailed here http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_protections.shtml
I use Clone DVD but have been told that Alcohol 120% is very good, http://shop.alcohol-soft.com/en/alcohol_info.php. Roxio and Nero (and many others just can't match these apps)
Peter Kaulback
In the hour of 03:16 AM 8/28/2004, Support-OrpheusComputing.com spoke this:
Most use, and I use what I mentioned (AIW = All In Wonder and that's ATI). If you can find one with AIW features, then that would be good since ATI's drivers and software are HORRIBLE. They are full of bugs and errors of which ATI never fixes. They are known on the net for their driver and software problems. If you luck out and get an install that yields no crashes or odd problems, they're great! In my most recent install, all recorded video from TV is BLACK! I play it back, and it's too dark to be seen, and still image captures from TV are the same way. That never happened before and all is the same as before! They're buggy.
I never tried to copy anything but a CD, so I can't say for sure. But, if a video game is like a pressed pre-fab CD, drag 'n drop won't work. Every time I've tried to copy everything over from a CD with that method, the CD didn't "work". All of the **VISIBLE** data was on the CD I made, but there's much more on a CD than what you see like the TOC and some proprietary CD image files (same with a DVD). This is what makes the CD bootable and load the 'ware on it automatically, among other things. One might get lucky and be able to click any "setup.exe" (or main install executable) on the copy and get it run and load, but it doesn't happen very often. This is why Adaptec/Roxio ECDC or Nero's version is needed for CD copying since they are more of a mirror copy, and copy EVERYTHING on a CD. Evidently the same can be said for a DVD since what you describe with it is what I described above.
I don't know if Roxio ECDC 6 CD/DVD will copy DVD's or not. Theoretically it may, but you may need something like DVD Shrink or DVDecrypter to copy a DVD. -Clint
God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com )
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In a message dated 8/3/2004 3:46:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, orpheuscomputing.com writes:
> The "capture" on the AIW series of video cards is for camcorders, digital > cameras, etc. You plug the camera into the rear of the card and > record/copy/"capture" the video and or audio to your HD. > -Clint
Clint,
On this, what's a good card to be able to capture video to the puter. What I want to do is copy some video to the puter so I can edit it and burn it to DVD. Also (while I'm thinking of it) a woman at work today asked me how to copy a video game from one disc to another. I told her to do it segmentally by just using copy/paste on one icon at a time. However, I'm not sure this will work properly since I recently did the same thing with a dvd, just as an experiment to see if it would work, and I WAS able to copy the full movie onto another dvd, but I didn't get menus and chapters and all that stuff. I can easily play the copy, but there are no divisions between scenes, or at least not quite as many as the original has. When I first pop the copy into the dvd drive it shows me the original scene selector, but only for about 1/4 of a second and then it just goes straight into the movie.
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