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Great Idea for gamers--- CD emulation

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First post, by DosFreak

Posted on 2002-08-12, 20:57

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Just started playin' around with Daemon Tools this weekend. I've had it in my collection since it came out but I always preferred game cracks...unfortunately it's hard to get the crack for the updated game if a patch comes out.

Well, now I'm gonna buy 200gb HD's and start storing my CloneCD images of my game's onto my HD's. Then use Daemon Tools to emulate a virtual CD drive and point to my CloneCD images! WOOHOO!

This works out perfectly because I can take these images, stick 'em on my removeable USB2 hard drive and take TONS of games with me when I go on vacation but I don't have to lug around a HUGE cd case! YAY!

It also works out because I will never have to yank out my CD again to scratch or lose because it will always be on my HD. So take that crappy game companies who do not care about scratches CD's!

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Reply 1 of 7, by Snover

Posted on 2002-08-12, 22:05

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Fantom CD works much better. It can emulate, like, E-Z, each as a different CD, and the interface is nice, and it can load just about every CD format imaginable (MDS, CCD, CUE, ISO, BWT, unfortunately not Nero's format but nothing does). It's great. I love it.

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Reply 2 of 7, by yawnmoth

Posted on 2002-08-13, 23:04

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Only problem with that is some games have CD copy protection that use sub channel data, which most CD readers aren't able to read well enough to reproduce (i guess). So, unless you got a really nice CD reader, then it won't work for newer games 🙁

Reply 3 of 7, by DosFreak

Posted on 2002-08-14, 13:56

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heh. Not a problem for me. Been using Plextor's for a looong time now and Liteon's for 6 months. Picked up 2 48x Liteon's last week for $90 each.

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Reply 4 of 7, by sonneveld

Posted on 2002-08-15, 02:52

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What are some cheap cdroms that can read the subcode info? I've got a liteon burner and when you try and read the subcode info off a cd, it takes ages.

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Reply 5 of 7, by Snover

Posted on 2002-08-15, 04:05

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It's ALWAYS going to take forever to read subchannel information. No CD drive can change that.

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Reply 6 of 7, by DosFreak

Posted on 2002-08-15, 13:16

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Experienced a prob with the latest ver of Fantom CD. Warcraft 3 wouldn't detect the CD althou I was able to access it just fine. Loaded it up with Daemon Tools and it worked fine. Was thinking it was a drive letter prob but Daemon Tools was R: and Fantom was U:.

Also Fantom CD is too bloated for what I need it for. Daemon Tools for me!

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Reply 7 of 7, by Snover

Posted on 2002-08-16, 07:47

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That doesn't make any sense at all...
Can't tell ya what that's all about.

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