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Cadavre777

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It seems like every game developer & publisher active in the market today is making it harder to copy games. Requiring online activation, single instance login, copyright protection, etc. Ok, I can understand they want to protect their income and keep people from distributing their product over p2p networks. But what about the people that spent a small fortune for a game that dont want the orginal disc getting damaged or lost?

If you somehow manage to create an iso/bin/nrg image of the disc, mounting it is another battle. Oh, and lets not forget those nasty anti-cheat systems doing their dirty work for the publishers too.

What application do YOU use to create and mount images to virtual drives?
 
I know I'm not answering the question, but wasn't there a system where you register any software you buy with them - and should you lose the disk, they'll issue you a new one? If not, let's make one? ;)

I'd be prepared to pay the large asking prices if I knew 100% that I would always have the software available to me. I constantly lose CDs, license keys etc etc
 
Face it - CD's do get scratched... so you are entitled to have a legal backup copy.

**** software pirates!
 
Another factor is drive noise, the DVD drives make a lot of noise.

I use DAEMON, and some games require me to disable the DVD drive on my system before accepting the fake image.
 
Yeah, I think Daemon Tools is the best option. Decent software with IDE emulation, 32bit and 64bit support. Ahh life would be so much easier if the games came on USB mass storage devices, locked to the device to prevent piracy. Optical media sucks.
 
USB based games, that could work, I guess cost of the h/w is the issue..... remember the ooooold days when games were on a cartridge, u just plug in and go!
 
USB games is a freaking terrible idea, well, mabey not, making read-only memory is a lot cheaper than flash-memory.

Yup ... back to the cartridge.

Actually .. i likes this idear.
 
The emulation crew is usually just a little bit behind the developers, so single-player games are not a problem.

Anything Steam-like is a mission.

Mount: Daemon + Safedisc hider
Create: CloneCD, Alcohol, Nero, DVDDecrypter

Daemon seems to be going in a for-profit direction lately. ftl.
 
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