Preservation Problems with A Director Game

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orange
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Preservation Problems with A Director Game

Post by orange »

I grabbed myself a cheap physical copy of an old Tivola game.
To preserve its contents for longer than the disc lasts (it is 20 years old already) i wanted to create myself an iso image.
It looks like this old childrens game (TKKG :Panic in a boarding school) is trying to defy my archive process with copy protection though.
It is sitting there since almost 20 spewing out "bad block" errors and there is a clearly visible ring on the outer edge of the cdrom.
Are they really using securom&Safedisc on these games (no label visible with a magnifying glass) ?
What do we use these days to solve this?
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Re: Preservation Problems with A Director Game

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https://itstillworks.com/copy-protected ... 07051.html

should normally be enough, otherwise maybe look for one that can skip those bad blocks
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Re: Preservation Problems with A Director Game

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You sure it's not plain old disc rot?
https://tedium.co/2017/02/02/disc-rot-phenomenon/
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Re: Preservation Problems with A Director Game

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feda wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2024 7:43 pm You sure it's not plain old disc rot?
https://tedium.co/2017/02/02/disc-rot-phenomenon/
On a few hundred sectors in a row that you can clearly see as a light ring on the disc? Possible but unlikely
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