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Betrayal at Krondor CD

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First post, by vasyl

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I was making image of the CD to play in DOSBox when I noticed something odd. Alcohol reported 5 bad sectors on the CD at the very end of data track (the CD has mutliple audio tracks). Of course, that could be attributed to the age of media but those 5 sectors are at the very end of the data track and past the end of the data. It looks more like mastering error. The CD is definitely authentic. It came bundled with some hardware but I don't think it differs from the retail version. Can anybody with the original CD confirm that it is mastering error?

Reply 1 of 4, by DosFreak

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Unfortunately I don't have the BAK cd ver but....

I have noticed problems copying Audio tracks from some DOS games......doesn't matter which imaging programs I use either.....

Try ISOBuster (Which you should be using anyway.....) and see if you get the same results.

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Reply 2 of 4, by vasyl

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I never had any problems extracting any tracks with Alcohol 120%, not sure if ISOBuster can do any better 😉 It does support more image formats and has a few other interesting features but nothing I really need compared to Alcohol. In this case, I am just trying to figure out if my copy is "bad" or it was some common manufacturing glitch. The positioning of bad sectors is very suspicious -- the very end of the data track but past the end of the actual data.

EDIT: Funny fact about ISOBuster. If you go to Microsoft site and try to download Visual Studio 2005 Express (manual install option) you will see a page with instructions how to use ISOBuster to install Studio.

Reply 3 of 4, by Qbix

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copy right protection ? (the bad tracks)

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Reply 4 of 4, by vasyl

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Could be but it is really too naive. Does not require any tools or any particular skills to defeat it. It would deter archaic 1:1 CD copiers though but those were too uncommon in 1995 to be considered a problem.