Back Up Metal Gear Solid 2 ( What protection is it?)

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  1. gouldinio

    gouldinio Member

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    Mmmmmmmmm......
    I'm new to all this backing up lark, but I've managed to back up most of my pc games (safedisc and securom etc).
    I need to know if I can and how I can back up Metal Gear Solid 2. It's dvd-rom and when I try read with blindwrite it says it's too big ( 7.48 GB ?!?!?!)
    I'm dumping the image now with alcohol 120% but if that works will I have to extract the .bwa and then use twinpeak, and if so how the hell will it fit on a disc? Can I burn onto DVD? (still not enough room?)
    I once again find myself as lost as I was when I made my first ten 'coasters'
    Help me please
     
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    Nephilim Moderator Staff Member

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    you can give A-Ray Scanner a go to find out the protection. I haven't read anything on backing up this title tho :(

    http://www.aray-software.com/

    Try this site for some most excellent BWA files:

    http://www.portmac.com/
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    Thanks but that doesn't show me what protection it has either.
    I looked on the disc and it has SONY DADC written on the inner ring, is this loosely related to securom?
    I'm pretty sure it is DVD 9 now, and have since tried creating image with DVD Decryptor, but I get a read error at 49% and it won't proceed any further.
    Anyone help?
    Am I on the right track?
     
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    Nephilim Moderator Staff Member

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    I've done a bit of research and MGS2 is indeed a dual-layer DVD meaning that unless you have a dual-layer DVD burner it can't be backed up.
     
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    Cheers to you Nephilim, stopped me spending another 2 days trying to back the bloody thing up!!
    Still like to know if I could run it from the virtual drive in Alcohol if I managed to burn the image correctly?
     
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    It's well worth a shot. If Alcohol's virtual drive doesn't do the trick you might give Daemon Tools a try :)

    When I googled Sony DADC I got hits referring to SecuRom so you may try settings for that when you extract the image.
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