[opensuse] (OT) Copy (going bad) game CD's with ....
I have a game CD, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, that is acting up. It will install but it complains about reading the CD to play the game. It says to put in the "real" CD not a backup. What can copy this - blasted - thing ? Tried k9copy and from the get go, it says "can't read the CD". Thanks, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-07-14 20:51, Duaine Hechler wrote:
I have a game CD, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, that is acting up. It will install but it complains about reading the CD to play the game. It says to put in the "real" CD not a backup.
What can copy this - blasted - thing ?
Tried k9copy and from the get go, it says "can't read the CD".
I don't have current information. But years ago, msdos time, a common trick was to create floppies with false errors. The copy protected software loaded and expected to find the error on a certain file, which nevertheless, was readable. Or a similar trick was to burn a laser hole on the disk. If you tried to copy the floppy, it failed, the error could not be replicated. There was special software, copyrite IIRC, that was able to copy those copy protected floppies (legally, for backups). I don't know which are the current tools to do the same thing now. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk4fPokACgkQtTMYHG2NR9X+rgCdFgRgzHwVUfYgSt16NG1LH7nM SPEAn0CXy5ZlxrDK21wpYYihYp4KLSEw =cZJh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:51:26 -0500, Duaine Hechler wrote:
I have a game CD, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, that is acting up. It will install but it complains about reading the CD to play the game. It says to put in the "real" CD not a backup.
What can copy this - blasted - thing ?
Tried k9copy and from the get go, it says "can't read the CD".
Maybe try using dd_rescue or dd_rhelp (which uses dd_rescue), sounds like a bad disc perhaps. Or it's copy protected somehow (I don't know personally of any instances of CD/DVD-based games being protected using bad sector errors like Carlos was talking about, though I do remember tricks like that being used on floppies and there being a barrage of programs available to determine the error and to reproduce it. I even remember one program that had a hole punched in the media at a particular point to generate the error on the PC). Does it work with the original CD? Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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