Am I right in saying that if my burner does not support EMF encoding that I will never be able to make a working backup of a SafeDisc 2 CD?... or is it a hit and miss situation? My burner is a NEC NR-7800A http://www.elby.ch/en/products/clone_cd/writers/n.html#nec
Your burner [bold] does support efm encoding [/bold] but only writes regular bit patterns [bold] almost correctly [/bold]. To play backups of Safedisc 2.x you'll need the aid of a ATIP tool (hide cd-r, ignore media type) and in the writing process you'll need to enable "amplify weak sectors" or "bypass efm errors". Consider a Lite-ON or Asus (2 sheep burner) for backing up Safedisc 2.8.x& SecuROM 4.8.x m8. Shoey _X_X_X_X_X_[small]Certified Computer Technician http://www.afterdawn.com/general/legal.cfm Forum Rules^ Mobo: KT4VL MSI-6712 CPU: AthlonXP Barton 2.5 Ram: 512 SD-DDR (PC-2700) nVidia GeForce4 MX440-8x Maxtor ATA\133 80 gig hd [/small]
Shooey, Thanks for the reply. So what your saying is that I cant truly backup SafeDisc 2.8 type CDs... only copy them and then use something like a Protection Emulator or even an Executable Unwrapper? Are the latter known to work at all? Cheers
In short, backups of Safedisc 2.8.x^= you'll some type of emulation (ATIP Tool)= your NEC burner. As far as future Safedisc versions= nobody knows m8. Shoey Burners have come way down in price so maybe consider the Lite-ON LTR 52\32\52 cdrw....
