Need help burning Battle for Middle Earth!

thanks for the help, i appreciate you not making fun of me as well!

 

I couldn't stop laughing for ten minutes. Caught me off guard with that one!

 

/bold hey everybody, i'm new to this forum and i would like to say hello all and happy new year..
anyways.. i've just recently made a backup of my game "the battle for middle earth" on a dvd-r disk and it allows me to install but not play with a " incorrect dvd disk" error... can some one tell me how to eradicate this problem so that i may play "the battle for middle earth" without the use of the origal dvd disk
thanx for your helps guys and gals

 

here is my quick method to play without the original DVD disc of "Battle for Middle Earth"

I was unable to make a working DVD backup of "Battle for Middle Earth" but i was able to mount the image to daemon tools virtual drive.

I used Alcohol 120% to create the image first, it doesn't give you any options to select except read speed but that doesn't really matter, you then select next and in my case it zipped through the whole process. Now, Alcohol doesn't like "BOME" in its virtual drives so I used daemon tools to mount the image and BAM! a working backup without the disc.

Just a FYI it does take up space on your HD>>exactly 2.93gb of space.

If any one backed up "Battle for Middle Earth" successfully please post the steps and with which program please. THANKS

 

umm... my mate did it for me because i don't haev a dvd burner... but he just used nero, blank dvd disk and just did a copy dvd... so it allowed me to install and everything... just not play with out the original cd... is there a like a crack or something to make it so i don't need the cd... cause it likes instealls over 3gigs of files on the computer so why would i need the dvd disk anymore???

 

okay.. sorry gm... can i use the word program instead??? so i shall say.... can some one be able to tell me how to obtain a no cd program for the batltle for middle earth please
thank you very much

 

common vongster, ask such questions on other forums, come back if you have a serious problem

 

did you not read my post -vongster-

give it a shot.

 

I purchased LOTR "Battle for Middle-Earth" and wanted to make a copy. Have anybody got a burned copy to work? I tried it with Blindwrite and had no success. Should I try Alcohol 120% and burn as an ISO? Thanks.

 

do you have the dvd version or the cd version (if such one exists, i don't know)
if you have the cd version, alcohol 120should do it. chose the safedisc2/3 profile and low read speed (take 4x for example)
to burn, just chose the same profile and low write speed, that should do it as far is i know. if it doesn't, try mounting the image into deamon tools (be sure to have teh newest version, 3.47 i think)

in addation just read the previous post.

if you own the dvd version i am sorry then i can't help you as alcohol doesn't offer any options to backup dvds. maybe somebody else knows...

 

I have the DVD version. I tried to use CloneCD (not sure what version, but it's the trial) and another time with Blindwrite and it wouldn't copy on a DVDR, but copied on CDR. I used the copy to install and it worked. It just didn't play.

When I tried to play it, there's a popup box that said that it detected emulator and needs to be turned off then rebooted. Tried that and still no success.

 

that emulator is most likely clonecd. it is blacklisted by EA's used copyprotection, which means if the the protection detects clonecd, the game won't run and you'll have to uninstall clonecd. if it still doesn't work, you may have to delete the registry keys installed by cloencd aswell.
have you tried mounting your image into deamon tools with all emulations checked?
by the way, how have you ben able to burn a dvd game to cd-r?

 

okay... i finally got it working... you have to use alcohol120% and make an image with it... then get daemon tools Version3.47... you then go to the image file, right click on it and go to "mount image" and it will mount it in a virtual drive tricking the system to believe its in and its the original... but peoples... you must have the original for it to work... if not.. you may try go to www.gameburnworld.com and look for a patch there... umm... specifically... look for the dat replacement file... it works
so have fun boys and girl

 

@-vongster-

Thanks for the tutorial, I think Ill try it and see if it works.

 

Lumbjack,

I put the dvdr and it was saying that it was invalid or not enough disk space??? Decided to put the cdr in and they it started burning. I don't know why it started burning even when it was a DVD. I don't think LOTRBME come in CD version. But I'm sure I got the DVD version.

 

Use CloneCD "Does DVD's as well" here is the link
http://www.slysoft.com/en/

CloneCD is the ideal tool to make backup copies of your music- or data CDs, regardless if they are copy protected or not! CloneCD's award-winning user interface copies almost any CD in just a few mouse clicks! Since release 5.0 CloneCD is able to copy not only CDs but as well all formats of DVD like DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R Dual Layer und DVD-RAM. Copy protected movie DVDs can only be copied with AnyDVD. The movies will not be modified (compressed), but one-to-one copied. CloneCD works as well with other formats like .iso and .udf and

"copies CDs/DVDs with the new SafeDisc 3 Copy Protection System."