Hitman: Codename 47 backup
 

I recently bought a copy of Hitman: Codename 47. It's a european re-release distributed by SoldOut. I tried lots of different no-cd cracks, but none works. So I want to make a backup iso of the whole shebang instead. Problem is, it seems to be a bit difficult to make a backup of it. Can anyone tell me what program & options I need to use? Thanks.

Read the FAQ on making backups and other kinds of images.

Ah, nice. Never saw those. Thanks.

Can you run it from your original?

I remember an interesting thing about this old game: when I tried to play it (the europen multilang -original, of course- cd) I wasn't be able to make it run. But when I put the NoCD it runs fine!!! LOL. The crack I used was for v1.2 (multilang) created by DBZ, not sure if found here or in megagames, check it.

Anyway it is also posible, since it is a re-release, the protection or the files protected has been changed. The old game was safedisc 2, a quite simple one to backup with alcohol. Check your game.exe version and the protection using PID or clonyXXL and be sure to apply the correct version NoCD.

Hope this helps

I know we are talking about an old game here but if it is a Re-release and has got a newer protection on it then 'ClonyXXL' wont be much good as it is really outdated now.
Go with either the 'ProtectionID' (PID) or 'Aray Scanner'. Both are excellent programs.

EDIT: And yes 'GilFuin' I have also come accross a few older games which wont actually play from the original disc but will play fine from a backup or by using a NoCD. These game are usually the ones I got thru some promotional thing like in a cereal packet. One of the earlier Need for Speed games is one of those which wouldnt play from the original and one of the MotoGP games?
Strange but true? ;)

I managed to make a copy with CloneCD that worked fine mounted. It was SoldOuts version thou, so no CD-crack worked, but since the whole image is ~350MB it's ok. The original CD worked fine, but also, this was already Build 192 on the disc.

Build 192... there is a crack for this (german version) on gamecopyworld. Have you tried to update the gate to the newest version avaliable of your lang and then crack it with the corresponding NoCD?

Yes. The re-release is quite new, so the game is already patched to the latest version at install. None of the cracks work for it thou.