First post, by DracoNihil
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- Oldbie
Since some of my old games have REALLY nasty scratches to the point where it can't even read most of the game, or even the audio tracks properly... I've been running utilities to attempt to rip them in much working order instead of going out and buying a new CD to replace it, especially since buying used copies tends to be risky at times... (I've been duped four times counting which pisses me off)
I don't know if it's proper to ask here but I'm really wanting to get past these stupid copy protections without having to fork out alot of money for Alcohol 120% or CloneCD or whatever, is there a way to do this for free, like on Linux and such? It would mean alot to me because of all the games I have, the CD's have seen better days and most of them I can't even install off of anymore anyways... (let alone hear the redbook audio *AT ALL*)
I also HATE it when, the game requires the CD in the drive and stalls as it spins up the drive waiting to read some stupid useless data off of it even if I chose the fullest possible install the setup program would let me, so having a CD image resident in RAM eases that trouble tremendously especially if I can't hack at the binary to rid of myself of such checks.
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