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Once you start spending dollars on games, I have to wonder what you do when you realize that your 4-year-old could easily destroy the CD and then you lose the game. Unfortunately, game vendors are so intent on preventing copying that it is actually quite hard to make a backup for yourself. Here are some hints (for the record, this ain’t about piracy, but about what happens, when Grace pours juice on your CD):

1. GameCopyWorld – Generic SafeDisc Patch. Good overview of potential solutions. There are some wrappers that fool things like SafeDisc that are either generic or game specific. There used to be a program CloneCD that would let you do backups, but it isn’t around anymore because of legal issues.

1. Gamefix. This site has a bunch of tools that emulate some of the copy protection schemes like SafeDisc or SecuRom or CopyLok

   You can also try to read these copy protected disk with conventional tools, but there will be lots of errors (see Gamefix)

   Image Tab
   Image fileEnter a Image filename
   Copy options Tab
   On the flyDeSelect
   Drive with source CD…Select Source CD-Reader
   Read Speed1x (150 kB/s)
   Read options Tab
   Number of retries before read error1
   Read media catalog number and ISCR Select
   Ignore illegal TOC TypeSelect
   Unreadable dataContinue copying
   Data mode 1 – Force raw reading – If it can be changed or it is not ghostedDeSelect
   Data mode 2 – Force raw readingDeSelect
   Read audio data with sub channelSelect
   Use Jitter correctionSelect (for older Readers)
   Ignore read errorsSelect
   Burn Tab
   Ignore read errors1x (150 KB/s)

   When ready click Copy CD to start the copy process