I'm trying to copy a CD of a game so that I can play it at my office with someone else over our network. The game needs CD#2 in to play. I can't seem to read the CD with K3b or XCDRoast. I get an error that says it can't read a track, but the game plays fine. I'm sure this is a protection thing. Anyone know how to get around this? Tom
On Saturday 27 December 2003 6:35 pm, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I'm trying to copy a CD of a game so that I can play it at my office with someone else over our network. The game needs CD#2 in to play.
I can't seem to read the CD with K3b or XCDRoast. I get an error that says it can't read a track, but the game plays fine. I'm sure this is a protection thing.
Anyone know how to get around this?
Tom
With the CD not mounted, try using dd dd if=/dev/name of=cd2.iso then burn it with cdrecord The dd command takes a while as it reads the entire cd, my guess is, if there is a protection scheme dd may fail quickly. (like on a protected movie DVD). See what happens with dd / it might work. George -- Linux ns1 2.6.0 #1 Mon Dec 22 11:57:38 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux 6:58pm up 1 day 9:02, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.04
You're right. It didn't work. I managed to get it working with another (windows) program. There was a protection program on the CD that it managed to circumvent. I don't make a habit of this. Tom On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:03, George Auch wrote:
On Saturday 27 December 2003 6:35 pm, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I'm trying to copy a CD of a game so that I can play it at my office with someone else over our network. The game needs CD#2 in to play.
I can't seem to read the CD with K3b or XCDRoast. I get an error that says it can't read a track, but the game plays fine. I'm sure this is a protection thing.
Anyone know how to get around this?
Tom
With the CD not mounted, try using dd
dd if=/dev/name of=cd2.iso
then burn it with cdrecord
The dd command takes a while as it reads the entire cd, my guess is, if there is a protection scheme dd may fail quickly. (like on a protected movie DVD).
See what happens with dd / it might work.
George
-- Linux ns1 2.6.0 #1 Mon Dec 22 11:57:38 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux 6:58pm up 1 day 9:02, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.04
On Sunday 28 December 2003 07:35, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I'm trying to copy a CD of a game so that I can play it at my office with someone else over our network. The game needs CD#2 in to play.
I can't seem to read the CD with K3b or XCDRoast. I get an error that says it can't read a track, but the game plays fine. I'm sure this is a protection thing.
Anyone know how to get around this?
Yes, it's going to be a protection thing, and you'll be lucky to get a sector by sector copy to work. That's exactly what the copy protection system is trying to prevent. Why can't you just take the original disk into work? --
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On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:39, Derek Fountain wrote:
On Sunday 28 December 2003 07:35, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I'm trying to copy a CD of a game so that I can play it at my office with someone else over our network. The game needs CD#2 in to play.
I can't seem to read the CD with K3b or XCDRoast. I get an error that says it can't read a track, but the game plays fine. I'm sure this is a protection thing.
Anyone know how to get around this?
Yes, it's going to be a protection thing, and you'll be lucky to get a sector by sector copy to work. That's exactly what the copy protection system is trying to prevent.
Why can't you just take the original disk into work?
I have the program. I paid for it. But some coworkers and I would like to play every once in a while. The thing is, you can't get the game to run without having disk 2 in the CD. No other way around it. In order to play on 3 machines, we need 3 disk2 CDs. Thanks, Tom
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I have the program. I paid for it. But some coworkers and I would like to play every once in a while. The thing is, you can't get the game to run without having disk 2 in the CD. No other way around it. In order to play on 3 machines, we need 3 disk2 CDs.
*sticking head on chopping block* You may want to look at the license agreement that comes with your software. You may be looking for trouble on the legal front. Most software will allow you to make a backup copy of the game but most state that you can only use it on one computer. Some will allow you to put the program on X amount of machines that you own. For example, I have Battlefield 1942 and EA will allow me to put the game on 2 machines that I own. So you may want to see if what you are doing is not going to get you into trouble. Marshall
I have the program. I paid for it. But some coworkers and I would like to play every once in a while.
You mean you would like your coworkers to pirate the game and play it without paying for it? Since you've handed over your hard earned money to the game producer, why don't you encourage your coworkers to do the same? --
eatapple core dump
Got my problem fixed. I had to use Alcohol 120% on my windows laptop. It was rather tricky. I'd like to find a way to do this without using windows, if possible. Tom On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 15:35, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I'm trying to copy a CD of a game so that I can play it at my office with someone else over our network. The game needs CD#2 in to play.
I can't seem to read the CD with K3b or XCDRoast. I get an error that says it can't read a track, but the game plays fine. I'm sure this is a protection thing.
Anyone know how to get around this?
Tom
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 20:06, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Got my problem fixed. I had to use Alcohol 120% on my windows laptop. It was rather tricky.
I use that software too but only to make a backup for my own use.
I'd like to find a way to do this without using windows, if possible.
You can try cdrdao. It will allow you to read a CD in raw mode. See man cdrdao for the details. Again refer to my response to your earlier post about the legality of what you are doing. I'm sure that we ( the list ) do not want you getting in trouble. Marshall
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