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FADE copy protection
Posted: 08 Dec 2004, 14:35
by Ocean Moves
Macrovision has tentatively announced that they are going to bring their Fade copy protection systems currently employed for computer games to DVD. Fade uses bad sectors on the disc which copy tools take for read errors and try to correct. If those sectors are changed, the game will gradually deteriorate until it becomes unplayable. The DVD variant, called SafeDVD, should use a similar technique and be released next year.
Does anyone know if there is a way to bypass the effects of FADE copy
protection when copying PC DVD Game discs yet?
Re: FADE copy protection
Posted: 08 Dec 2004, 16:35
by Dan
Erinyes wrote:Fade uses bad sectors on the disc which copy tools take for read errors and try to correct.
Meaning they're not really errors and shouldn't be corrected, yes?
If you can play those computer games on a computer it must mean the errors aren't being corrected...
...so just use that same computer to copy your DVD's.
Posted: 08 Dec 2004, 16:49
by Izzy HaveMercy
"Do not use error correction". Sounds too simple, really...
You can put the error correction off in most programs, either in the shell environment or the hard way with a command line. Thus the copy program will not try to read the bad sectors, but simply copies them 'as is'. Most of the time, that is. Some proggies simply say something like :'bad sector, copy aborted'. Fingers crossed that this is NOT the case for you, then.
IZ.
Posted: 08 Dec 2004, 21:34
by Ocean Moves
Thus the copy program will not try to read the bad sectors, but simply copies them 'as is'.
Can Alcohol 120% be set to do this?
http://www.alcohol-software.com/
Posted: 09 Dec 2004, 14:32
by Izzy HaveMercy
Erinyes wrote:
Thus the copy program will not try to read the bad sectors, but simply copies them 'as is'.
Can Alcohol 120% be set to do this?
http://www.alcohol-software.com/
With that kind of percentage, Alcohol can do anything for you baby
IZ.
Posted: 09 Dec 2004, 15:02
by CellThree
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Erinyes wrote:
Thus the copy program will not try to read the bad sectors, but simply copies them 'as is'.
Can Alcohol 120% be set to do this?
http://www.alcohol-software.com/
With that kind of percentage, Alcohol can do anything for you baby
IZ.
I've been using DVD X Copy Platinum, gets rid of all that nasty macrovision and region stuff and compresses the DVD (if needs be) so it will fit onto a normal 4.7gb DVD-R.
Only does video DVDs not Data though.
re:
Posted: 09 Dec 2004, 17:03
by Ocean Moves
I was actually trying to make a copy of "toca racing driver 2"
(PC Game) which I
own on DVD. Apparently it employs safe disk 3 copy protection, which Im
told is currently un-copyable without a Plex 8x SCSI writer...which I dont
have. ......so ...Ill live with my existing copy, unless someone knows if
this copy protection HAS been beaten now??