question on backups/1:1 copies

[Joshua Wood]

Hi all,

I have recently brought a LiteOn 40125S drive, and tried to backup Age of Mythology and UT2003...

The copies work for installing, but are not recognised as originals when I try to play them...the no cd .exe works of course....

I'm new to all of this, and used Clone CD and Cloney XXL...

Question: What exactly is meant by a 1:1 copy? I'm guessing it means it is an exact copy...but can it be used as an "original" disk to play the game without a no cd .exe? Are there some games where you can have an exact 1:1 copy, but you still can't use the backed up version? (ie, it checks for the cdr media type, or something)?

(I'm just wondering if my backups were 1:1...)


Can you backup AoM and UT2003 perfectly so that the cdr will be detected as the original valid cd? If you can, I must have done something wrong...

If you can do this, does this mean the whole copy protection has also been copied, and is so perfect that it thinks the backup is the original?
And in my case, is it that the data is a perfect copy, since it installs ok (or does the copy protection have no effect on this?), but the protection can detect it is not an original, since the protection hasn't been copied perfectly....?

(I'm a bit confused :)

Cheers for any help!
Josh

[Joshua Wood]

Cheers, I read about UT2003 after I posted (d'oh! :).

And with AoM, I use a cracked no cd exe since I find this more convenient anyways...I hate changing cds etc....I was more interested in whether I had backed it up ok...I'll try the cloneCD hide cdr media and see....

Can u backup AoM and use the backup CD without using Hide CDr media option?

I'm more intereseted in my 1:1 question however.


Cheers,
Josh

[podunkviller]

cd rom drives cannot recognize cdr's as being non-pressed. just use it in a non-writer, and hide cdr media is a nonissue.

[Joshua Wood]

Yup, I've read this also....

Would still like to know answer to my 1:1 question....


Appreciated,
Josh

[emptyeighty]

Originally posted by Joshua Wood
Question: What exactly is meant by a 1:1 copy? I'm guessing it means it is an exact copy...but can it be used as an "original" disk to play the game without a no cd .exe? Are there some games where you can have an exact 1:1 copy, but you still can't use the backed up version? (ie, it checks for the cdr media type, or something)?


A 1:1 is an exact copy. Period. It can be used just like the original disc. If not it is not a true 1:1 copy ;)