Read errors are normal for many types of CD copy protection. Just compare the number of read errors to the number on redump.org and you should be good. Securom disks will need MDS/MDF. It contains everything a CUE/BIN set has in addition to some extra stuff.

TheMLGladiator wrote on Today, 15:35:

Read errors are normal for many types of CD copy protection. Just compare the number of read errors to the number on redump.org and you should be good. Securom disks will need MDS/MDF. It contains everything a CUE/BIN set has in addition to some extra stuff.

Hmm. I tried just the regular Securom and the files as MDF, but again, it got to 60%, came up with a disc read error, and cancelled the operation itself.
🙁 Looking on redump.org, it doesn't appear to list any errors at all.

http://redump.org/disc/78471/

This image is lifted from the alcohol 120% electronic user's manual. I hope fair use qualifies.

Note that on the image creation dialog window, 'skip read errors' exists.

It exists for this reason.

You can find said manual here.

https://support.alcohol-soft.com/documentatio … user-manual.pdf

In the event that these are *actual data defects*, and not copy ptotection factory-made bad blocks, I would advise the slowest read speed possible, AND, holding the disc up to a light to check for pinpricks in the top surface of the disc.

wierd_w wrote on Today, 16:16:

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Note that on the image creation dialog window, 'skip read errors' exists.

It exists for this reason.

You can find said manual here.

https://support.alcohol-soft.com/documentatio … user-manual.pdf

Yeah, that's usually ticked anyway for me. Especially after choosing one of the presets. It makes no difference though. It gets stuck at 60.5% every time with read error after read error. I checked the disc and it's immaculate, too.

Personally I don't trust alcohol to not fuck with the redbook so it's been CloneCD/DVD for me with my game discs (bin/cue/ccd/sub). Very protected games tend to be more post-redbook though

I've given up at this point. Nothing I've tried works. And I can't even do it on my main PC with ImgBurn and copying/pasting the files directly off the disc. 🙁

leileilol wrote on Today, 16:37:

Personally I don't trust alcohol to not fuck with the redbook so it's been CloneCD/DVD for me with my game discs (bin/cue/ccd/sub). Very protected games tend to be more post-redbook though

Alcohol doesn't handle multi-bin sets correctly either. I'll have to give CloneCD a shot sometime.

I'll give CloneCD/DVD a try next. 😀

If you are using Alcohol 120% Retro Edition on windows 98, it is missing a few features so I wouldn't count on it as a ripping and virtual drive option for copy protected discs. Most importantly it doesn't allow you to rip to or mount disc formats with subchannel data (e.g. mds/mdf and ccd/cue/sub). Those disc formats are typically required to enable copy protection emulation.

NeoG_ wrote on Today, 21:48:

If you are using Alcohol 120% Retro Edition on windows 98, it is missing a few features so I wouldn't count on it as a ripping and virtual drive option for copy protected discs. Most importantly it doesn't allow you to rip to or mount disc formats with subchannel data (e.g. mds/mdf and ccd/cue/sub). Those disc formats are typically required to enable copy protection emulation.

Ahhhh. I see. Yeah, I'm using Retro Edition for 98. I didn't realise it was missing features. Thanks for the heads-up. 😀 Apart from trying CloneCD, which I'll do next, is there a version of Alcohol that's recommended?