Am I right in saying that if my burner does not support EMF encoding that I will never be able to make a working backup of a SafeDisc 2 CD?... or is it a hit and miss situation?
Quote: Am I right in saying that if my burner does not support EMF encoding that I will never be able to make a working backup of a SafeDisc 2 CD?... or is it a hit and miss situation?
Your burner does support efm encoding but only writes regular bit patterns almost correctly . To play backups of Safedisc 2.x you'll need the aid of a ATIP tool (hide cd-r, ignore media type) and in the writing process you'll need to enable "amplify weak sectors" or "bypass efm errors". Consider a Lite-ON or Asus (2 sheep burner) for backing up Safedisc 2.8.x& SecuROM 4.8.x m8.
Asus K8N nVidia nForce3 Pro 250 GB, Athlon 64 3200+, Hitachi 80 gig SATA 150, Corsair XMS 1 gig PC4000, ATI Radeon Saphire 9600 Pro (256 DDR), Windows XP Pro (64 Bit),Lite-ON SOHD 167T,, Plextor PX-712SA,BenQ 1640.
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So what your saying is that I cant truly backup SafeDisc 2.8 type CDs... only copy them and then use something like a Protection Emulator or even an Executable Unwrapper? Are the latter known to work at all?
Quote: So what your saying is that I cant truly backup SafeDisc 2.8 type CDs... only copy them and then use something like a Protection Emulator or even an Executable Unwrapper? Are the latter known to work at all?
In short, backups of Safedisc 2.8.x^= you'll some type of emulation (ATIP Tool)= your NEC burner. As far as future Safedisc versions= nobody knows m8.
Shoey :)
Burners have come way down in price so maybe consider the Lite-ON LTR 52\32\52 cdrw....
Asus K8N nVidia nForce3 Pro 250 GB, Athlon 64 3200+, Hitachi 80 gig SATA 150, Corsair XMS 1 gig PC4000, ATI Radeon Saphire 9600 Pro (256 DDR), Windows XP Pro (64 Bit),Lite-ON SOHD 167T,, Plextor PX-712SA,BenQ 1640.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 16. July 2003 @ 11:01
