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| New on Forum Join Date: Dec 2003
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| What CDRW drive, gets past most of the latest copy protection? i was wondering which CDRW drive i should buy? I was thinking of getting a Liteon Internal 52/32/52 CDRW. Does this drive allow you to get past most copy protections? I am going to use Alcohol 120% as well. |
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| True Blue Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In front of my PC
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| Hello and welcome. The Liteon 52x32x52 drive would be a good all round choice. I use one myself, and have had reasonable success at backing up many copy protected games. Alcohol 120% is also quite a reasonable choice for software too. There are excellent tutorials on this forum that can show you how to detect the method of copy protection, and how to make a copy. It may be a little daunting at first, just stick at it, ask questions when needed, and most of all good luck. |
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| Senior Admin Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: True Blue
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| I saw the first post some hours ago and the lost sight of it while I wrote this reply. Jackass kindly replied and I'll leave his post intact, of course (Aussie, Aussie, Aussie). The old “what burner should I buy?” thread is here There are four major and some less popular copy protections for CDs and one of them is now found on DVD (Tron is protected by SecuROM) and can’t yet be backed up. Possessing the right combination of hardware and software is the most fundamental step. Knowing the copy protection and its version is another fundamental step. You have to get used to version numbers, application names and hardware brands and model numbers. Before you buy a burner you need to ask yourself what you want to do with it. Since you’re reading this you may want to backupup copy protected CDs. You can skip the rest if you like and go buy an ASUS or LITEON or LG 52x burner and a LITEON DVD-ROM.. Download trial versions of software from here. The copy protections of interest are:
After reading this brief overview, you may choose a well known name brand like Yamaha, TDK, Pioneer or Panasonic but you will be placing yourself on the backfoot for copy protections. These popular brands are very good at data and audio burning in a pre mastering app like Nero, DiscJuggler, RecordNow and so on but the electronics engineers don’t have RAW reading in mind nor do they care whether they can defeat copy protection in terms of a working backup. And the only thing a DVD burner is really good for is burning DVDs. Do your research before you buy a DVD burner to backup CDs – it may or may not work for copy protected CDs. Guides are here Game Copy Protections are listed here if not here Software discussion is listed here Copy protection discussion is here To discover what some of the terms in this post mean please enter the term in a search here Please feel free to post generally below ![]()
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| Thanks FutureProof and Jackass for your replys, the information was very helpful. I have a much better understanding. but i have a few more questions, what is the best way to find out what type of copy protection a cd has? ClonyXXL? I am going to buy some software, i am trying to choose between Alcohol 120% and BlindWrite 5 what would you recommend? The drive i am proberly going to get to start off is a liteon 52/32/52. is there any other software or things i need? thanks |
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| Legal Senior Admin Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: True Blue
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| >LaserLock – now uncommon it seems, Desperados was the last I know of and is easily defeated. Very uncommon indeed though last release I know of was Warrior Kings which had two releases, the second of which had an upgraded laserlock version and which can be a bit of a pig to copy successfully (it can be done but isn't an absolute sitter like the first release). >Ring PROTECH – common enough. Iron Storm is one example. Protection is also known as ProRing. Used on most, if not all, Wannadoo releases. >StarForce – like Tagès, it is becoming more common and is widely employed on Asian and Russian releases. It can be run from an image with emulation of sorts Versions 1 & 2 (both now obsolete) can be successfully "copied" and run with alcohol's RMPS emulation. Back-up images of version 3, at present, can only be run (sometimes) when mounted on an alcohol or daemon tools virtual drive and then only if all ide roms are unplugged first (definitely not recommended). >what is the best way to find out what type of copy protection a cd has? ClonyXXL? Check out the various protection scanners that FP has identified for you in this thread. >I am going to buy some software, i am trying to choose between Alcohol 120% and BlindWrite 5 what would you recommend? There are trial versions of both available. Try both and see which suits you best. >The drive i am proberly going to get to start off is a liteon 52/32/52. A good choice for your first drive but do yourself a favour and partner it with a Lite-on dvd rom. They're very cheap and you won't regret the small extra cost. ![]()
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| Emulation Futureproof, A very nice summary. You mentioned that DJ copies without emulaton needed. Are you saying that Alcohol and Blindwrite need emulation for the copies to work? So, what is the best CDRW to get if you plan to copy using DJ (ie not use emulation)? |
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| Re: Emulation Quote:
Not necessarily ASUS or Liteon 52x
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| CD Freak Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: True Blue, aka Sydney, Australia
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| Re: Please explain... Quote:
The settings would differ from burner to burner, media to media and so on.
__________________ Author of The CD Freaks Offline Help doing version 2 code rewrites. Enjoy version 1. Version 1 is now released! You can get it here. In it you can learn about SafeDisc, SecuROM and heaps of other protections and learn on how to defeat them. Also you can take a look at some of my various tutorials in it and some frequently asked questions asked. Plus heaps more! Enjoy! | |
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| CD Freaks Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002
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| You say that a LiteOn 52x burner is a wise choice, but which one? There is the 52246S and the 52327S. I have the 52246S, so is this drive still considered an SD killer? Also I am getting ready to buy Call Of Duty so I can test my burner against SD3. Should I be using my LiteOn burner or my LiteOn Dvdrom to read the image? Edit: I want to use the DiscDump/FireBurner method, so hopefully that will work with my setup. Although I own Alcohol 120%, and you said that it was good with SD, but only as burner? or reader too? I have read that I should use the first SD profile, because LiteOn's are not weak at sector amplification.
__________________ ZeETeR LiteOn LH-20A1P (KL0N FBL-EOS-EOHT III) Samsung SH-S203B (SB03 FB FR) Pioneer DVR-115D (1.18) x2 |
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| CD Freaks Die Hard Join Date: Jun 2003
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and for me i can only say that my plextor premium was the best thing i bought in the last 6 months...'till now it copies all securom's and (in combination with my toshiba 1802 as a reader <- only for safedisc 3.15+) all safedisc's ... so, i would say: well done plextor, great thing... everyone who can spend a little more money than for a liteon: buy a plex premium.... ![]() greetz, Raz Last edited by Razor1982; 12-02-2004 at 07:25. | |
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| CD Freaks Rookie Join Date: Feb 2004
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| pioneer dvr range seems very good even for copy protection however theres really no such thing as a perfect drive for everything. pioneer dvr = fine for raw+96 read and write good for ripping securom, image only not so hot for the topology playsback twinpeak fine burns twinpeak fine burns and playsback all sd v upto 3.15 (dont recomend ripping any sd game with it tho excellent DAE @ reasonable speed also good at recovering badly scratched original data dvds inc PS2 burns all regular dvds inc console wouldnt live without my antique litey 48x rw tho but its not good for making securom images, no liteon is afaik, well not with BWAlso i would not recomend using hacked f/w in a dvr drive to help with ripping speeds of movies etc go spend some xtra on a udma mode 4 dvd-rom drive
__________________ Quote "Emulation is the way forward from now on" ![]() Please dont think like that Emulation should be an option, there for when all else fails. Emulation and virtual drives are blacklistable. Look at emulation as a software modchip for a PC, New console ver = New modchip New PC protection ver = new emu-soft |
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| How do combos drives, such as the Lite-On SOHC-5232K (that has 52x-R and 32x-RW burning and 16x DVD reading) compare to non combo drives and in gneral? Would getting this give one the advantage of both a Lite-On 52x drive and a Lite-On DVD drive? |
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| CD Freak Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: True Blue, aka Sydney, Australia
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| Yes, I can. 48x12x48 CRX210E1 - LiteOn LTR-48126S 48x24x48 CRX215E1 - LiteOn LTR-48246S 52x24x52 CRX220E1 - LiteOn LTR-52246S 52x32x52 CRX225E - LiteOn LTR-52327S Since the Sony burners 48x12x48 + burners are LiteONs, then the Sonys are 2 sheep(EFM) burners. Able to backup SafeDisc 2 and 3.
__________________ Author of The CD Freaks Offline Help doing version 2 code rewrites. Enjoy version 1. Version 1 is now released! You can get it here. In it you can learn about SafeDisc, SecuROM and heaps of other protections and learn on how to defeat them. Also you can take a look at some of my various tutorials in it and some frequently asked questions asked. Plus heaps more! Enjoy! |
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| CD Freaks Rookie Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Spain
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| you are wrong The Sony CRX225E is 52x24x52x => Liteonit 7S series
__________________ Hardware: Sony DDU-1211 @ Liteonit LTD-122 with IL5Z (the dvd with the best speed/noise relation I have ever seen) Sony CRX225E/A @ Liteonit 52327S with QS0E Plextor PX-40TS with 1.13 |
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| New on Forum Join Date: Apr 2004
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| So which is best now for SafeDisc 5 like the one on UT2k4. Basically which is the best CD-Writer for making 1:1 copies. I ask this because I noticed that this thread was starting to age. Btw not counting price as a factor which would you consider the best MODEL? |
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Plextor Premium in combination with Blindwrite. | |
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