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SafeDisc The SafeDisc protection is one of the most
common protections you may come across (or at least it was, until SafeDisc 2, 3
& 4
came out!). It was developed by two leading companies C-Dilla and MacroVision in order to stop destructive hackers and commercial pirates
from developing illegal copies to sell on the black market. It is comprised of
both an authenticating digital signature embedded on the disc, as well as a
multi-layered encrypted wrapper that secures the CD's contents. When a user
inserts a legally purchased original CD in a CD-ROM drive, the
authentication software reads the digital signature, allowing the program to
be decrypted and run normally. If an counterfeit copy is loaded, the
authentication software will no longer be able to find the digital
signature, and the copy will not run. An advanced feature of the SafeDisc
protection is the multi-level anti-hacking technology that helps prevent the
reverse-engineering of it code and security features. If you want
more information on how it was developed please visit the SafeDisc
website.
Detection Of The Protection
The following files should exist on the
original CD:
00000001.TMP, CLCD16.DLL, CLCD32.DLL,
CLOKSPL.EXE AND DXLAYER.DLL. *Please note that not all the above files may
exist on the original CD, it is quite common for no more than one file not to be
there.
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:
You can use the Generic
SafeDisc Patch. Also available is the
SafeDisc Patch v3.1 which will also bypass the protection.
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 (SafeDisc)
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 (SafeDisc) 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.
You can also use UnSafeDisc
which is a tool used to unwrap a SafeDisc protected file by permanently
removing the protection from the games exe files. Just simply run the
program select the games exe file and it will permanently remove the
SafeDisc protections in it.
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