Hi all, as anyone managed to back - up The Sims " Makin' magic" i have tried several methods, icluding clone cd, alcohol 120, and even the new gamexcopy, but still cant get a good working copy, anyone help... thanks...rob
This needs to be in the "CD-R" forum and not here. You're giving us nothing to go on. What burner are you using, what versions of software, what methods have you tried etc. You need to use A-Ray Scanner to identify what protection you're trying to back up so you know what settings to use in the software. A-Ray can be found here: http://www.aray-software.com/ _X_X_X_X_X_[small]Gigabyte 8INXP, Intel P4HT 3.06 Mushkin 1024 MB PC2100 Sapphire 9800 Pro/M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Plextor PX-708A/Plextor Premium/LTD-166S "And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." Numbers 13:33[/small]
Hi i have used clony xxxl and it says it is safedisc 2.51 i have tried burning with alchol120 and have checked out many of the sites for all the right settings, i have also just got this new program from 321 studios gamesXcopy and tried that, but still cant get it to work, i am using a lite on 2 sheep burner
Something's definitely not right. Safedisc 2.51 should be a piece of cake to backup with Alcohol using the Safedisc 2/3 setting. I used it on Call of Duty which is Safedisc 3.10 and it worked fine. Are you trying to play the copy in your burner or in a ROM? Have you successfully backed up other games before?
i am trying to play the backed up copy in my lite on burner, yes i have copied a few other games sucsessfully its just this one that is causing the trouble
Hi, thanks all especially "imastew1" for the link, i got it working now with the aid of the nocd patch,, cheers all...rob
Official forum policy prohibits discussion about piracy. If I recall correctly, Sims - Making Magic is SafeDisc 2.9 (although I could be wrong). .... If you need to burn a SafeDisc2 protected game the major consideration is the drive doing the copy; certain drives have certain characteristics that give them an easier time to perform SafeDisc2 copies than others. Such drives are described as being 2-sheep burners. Drives not quite up to the task (however capable of), are described as 1-sheep burners and heaven forbid, 0-sheep burners. So the first thing you need to do is to find out what make/model your burner is and if it is a 2-sheep burner or not. To determine your make and model of your optical drives; if you happen to have Nero Infotools installed, start it up and under the Drive tab, it will list all the relevant specifications and capabilities of your burner. The actual name of your burner is listed in the drop-down box at the top (those numbers before the name of your burner are important too!). You can get InfoTools from http://www.cd-rw.org/software/cdr_software/cdr_tools/nero_info_tool.cfm Once you have determined tha name of the burner, head on over to http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/45121 to see if that burner is listed there or not. If it is listed there, it is a 2-sheep burner; if it is not listed there it is not neccesarily a 2-sheep burner but highly unlikely. Now if you have a 2-sheep burner head on over to http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/23699 to find out how to copy a SafeDisc2 protected game. If you are running a 1-sheeper than visit http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/36444 for the appropriate guide.
