Bubble Bobble + Rainbow Islands (Xplosiv)

[MarzSyndrome]

ARGH, this mini-image making thing is such an irritating load of piss!

I followed the CDFreaks guide (for Safedisc CDs) to the letter, and yet no matter whether I cancel after 2Mb or 50Mb, I never seem to get the full TOC nor the right amount of copy protection for a mount to work with this game, so the thing never works when mounted through Daemon Tools (4.0). Obviously it works with a full image, but I would've thought it'd be easy to make a mini-image out of this fairly old title which shouldn't be as bad as most games of today?

ISO Director didn't work either, using with a full image just produced a 55Kb file that did nothing for me through DT. Had some silly problem with filenames too, according to the readme.

Yeeesh.

[noscript]

Newer safedisc version need a full image to be validated through daemon tools (normalle intruduced with safedisc 4). Maybe your scanner detects the wrong version.

[MarzSyndrome]

Nope, both Protection-ID and ARay Scanner say Safedisc 3.15.010.

Although I discovered that it starts getting the TOC right if i stop the image-making at 300Mb (I'll have to try a 250Mb attempt another time), whereupon everything works as it should.

They probably injected a hidden dummy part before the TOC on the disc, seeing as Explorer claims the disc to take up over 650Mb when there's only about 30Mb+ visible on the disc or so.

[MarzSyndrome]

You know, I only just discovered that there's a tool on GameCopyWorld called "Mini-Image Ripper". Looks a bit old but hopefully it might help with this obscure game, right? Failing that, is there some generic patcher for Safedisc 3 in general nowadays?

I should probably point out that it appears Xplosiv no longer sell this title anymore, so eBay would be the best bet in future.