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OverSized/OverBurn CD's
A protection method which can be commonly seen these
days is to over-burn a CD. In most cases a 74mins/650MB or a 80Mins/700MB CD is used and is
pressed to hold slightly more than than the stated limit e.g. 76mins/670MB or
82mins/720MB. This
means that your CDR Software will try to match the size of the original CD to
the size of the blank. It will then realize that it cannot burn it because
the original CD is bigger than the blank one.
Detection Of The Protection
This particular protection can be detected by
using a copying program. If you try to burn from the original to either CDR or
HDD, the program will usually notify you to say the original is more than
74mins/650MB or 80Mins/700MB. You can also use Windows Explorer to find the total size of
the original CD. To do this simply right click your CD ROM drive letter
then click properties and it will tell you the amount of space which is on the
CD.
You can use one of the many protection
detection tools from our Game Copy Protection Identifying Tools page to identify
whether the protection is being used on your
game.
Burning/Backup Solution
There are several different methods you
can use to successfully burn/backup your game, as follows:
Most, if not all of today's
CD writers
'unofficially support over-burning'. This means that the that they can use
the extra space at the end of a blank CD to burn more data. Another simple way
around this is to buy blank CD media that supports slightly more than the standard
74min/650MB. These larger CDs can hold up to 700MB+ which is usually easily
enough to copy the original CD. You may find that the CD is pressed to hold
much more than 80Mins/700MB e.g. 84mins-88mins. The simplest way around this is
to buy the larger 80min/700MB CD media. This is not the same as over-burning, it is
simply burning the original CD to CDR that is slightly bigger.
You
can use CloneCD to successfully burn the
game. Use ClonyXXL to scan the game,
it will then tell you what protection is being used on the game (OverSize/OverBurn)
and the correct settings to use in CloneCD
to successfully backup the game. You can also use Alcoholer
protection scanner and Alcohol 120%
burning software. Use Alcoholer to
scan the game, it will then tell you what protection is being used on the
game (OverSize/OverBurn) and the correct settings to use in Alcohol
120% to successfully backup the game. BlindWrite
can also successfully burn a game with this protection on it. You can also use
Daemon
Tools to emulate the game and the protection. *Remember,
if you experience problems with burning the game at high speeds, (2 speed +)
(both the read and write process), then burn the game at lower speeds such
as 2 speed and under (both read and write process). A lot of the time
burning the game at slow speeds will solve problems of the install not
working, or the burner not bypassing the CD's protection.
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