Hey all. I've been reading everyone's replies to my original post and learned some useful info from you people. My situation is that I have tried a few ways to copy the Unreal 2 Play disk. It seems that the ways listed above all work for me, however I am only able to play the disk in my Liteon writer. When I try to play it in my Matshita CR593 cdrom two things happened....either I got a message saying "insert play disk", or the common thing that happens - the cd just spins around, I hear some weird noises and the game won't start up. But I put the same cd in the liteon and it works without any problems...no crack needed. Anyone know why this might be happening?

My second ? is is there copy protection on the U2 Install cd? Because I copied it a different way and I'm wondering if I copied it "wrong" and that's why the play disk only works in my writer. Does the install disk make a difference?

I copy install disc with Nero CD Copy. Any program that will do a copy will work. You just need to worry about the one that needs to be in to play.

omerta - no problems here. the play disc works well with my lite-on dvd drive

What is the general concensus on image read, BWA forming and image write speeds when using blindwrite to backup UT2. Some posts seem to indicate that it can all be done at Max, others that you need to crank the speed down to x2 or x4

woo hoo! i made another 1:1 with RTCW GOTYR Edition

clonecd alone could not do it with my lite-on drive

lol

if my information is correct the RTCW GOTY EDITION has no protection on it what so ever ....

only protection it has is a cd key check.................

well the european version that i have hasnt ............

Same with my RTCW it has no protection other than the cd key, this is a U.S. version, don't know why it was giving you fits, you need to go through your drivers, check DMA, and probably defrag your hard drive, do all your updates.

according to portmac's website, you are indeed correct! however, when i tried to back it up with clonecd, it wouldn't install ... so went with what i already had outlined

well what ever way works

Getting back to the original thread topic, contrary to most of the excellent advice on this site, I seem to find that when making a backup of securerom in general and unreal2 in particular, that I can only play them thru' my CD writer (lite-on 2410b) and not my normal CD/DVD player (Pioneer 106s). Most of the info on backing up securerom seems to suggest that it should be played back thru' the cd/dvd!

Is this also hardware dependant, in otherwords is the Pioneer 106 not best suited to this task.

Just curious really, playing thru' the lite-on works for me, so I have no real complaints

regards

Yes. Twinsector copies don't work on all devices. Of course, the better the copy you make, the better chance you've got (follow ViRuS2k's advice to maximise your chances). However, no matter how well you've made the copy, there are some roms on which it simply won't run.

how exactly did you backup NASCAR 2003 season?

i can my copies to install, but the game wont play from the copy.

Used BlideWrite 4.2.5 and 4.2.9s BWA builder .. installs and plays on everything I've applied it too.

BWA made at Max Speed.
Image made at x16 with my LiteON
Extract subcodes - checked.
Nibble - checked
Wrote,
DOA Pw
Max Speed
Used BWA

i was using 4.2.9 to write the disk is why mine wouldnt work, after getting 4.2.5 everything works now.

wonder why they dont fix that?

That's the $1,000,000 question .. maybe they have in the new version that is out now ... time will tell. I'm not touching it till one of the pros here test it.

Glad it worked for you.

it isnt fixed in ver 4.3, out of curiosity i installed it on a secondary system, and the Nascar 2003 season burnt with it wouldnt play

You play this game online ??

no, but my brother does.....i think he even takes care of the server for the group he races with.

Uhmm .. just wondering if it's a small world .. is his name Ron by any chance ? Does the word Cobra have something to do with it too ? I'd be amazed if .....

nah...his name is mike, and i used cobra back when we were into rogue spear and had our own clan.

I have made a backup of the unreal2 play disc, using blindwrite 4.30, last version, using bwa files and other, i have made the copy, and the run, but, run ONLY if blindwrite is installed, if i remove blindwrite, the cd verification fails...

Where im wrong ?

As far as I can tell the latest version of blindwrite only burns autoplay (emulation) copies. Twinpeak (non-emulation) copies no longer seem to be supported.

Turning off autoplay support will just result in the copy not working even if blindwrite is installed. It won't result in blindwrite burning a copy that works without emulation.

Why blindwrite has dropped the twinpeak method is beyond me since its ability to burn copies of securom that don't require emulation was the sole reason for its recent increase in popularity.

If, like most people, you want to make a copy that doesn't require emulation, bin the current version of blindwrite and either go back to 4.2.5 or try the method set out here.

Ok, thank you very match, i will do !!!

I've tried a couple of different ways to backup Unreal 2 but all I get are coasters Has anyone successfullt burned it using a LG 4320BB CDRW/DVD drive ?

or does anyone have the settings they successfully burned this with ?

I tried neonspyder's excellent post here
but I need the settings used in each step

cheers

Same thing happen to me...

I tried varioous combination, but none has generated a valid backup copy...



The game still unbackuppable for me...

Any ideas ?