Warcraft III, Never Winter Nights, uncopyable ? Of course not

12 Jul 02 21:44 by DoMiN8ToR in category Uncategorized To news archive


Currently our (CloneCD) forum gets a little flooded by questions about backing up Warcraft III and Never Winter Nights. These games seem to be protected with again a new version of SecuRom. Some people on the forum are suspecting that the protection might target the oh so populair Lite-On drives.

There are currently also people reporting troubles with certain versions of Lite-On drives but all with all with the help of the people in the CloneCD forum you should be able to make a backup, be sure to have read at least this thread.

If this thread doesn’t help you out, please be sure to check out our search function (top right) before posting a new thread on this subject, there are enough already !

Source: Club CD Freaks

16 Comments

guest
Posts: 15284
Posted on: 13 Jul 02 00:49
I don't know if Warcraft 3 is copyable with a cd-burner, but as well as Medal Of Honor, it is copied easily and quickly with Virtual CD 4 (this utility makes an image of a CD on the HD. Amazingly, I never encounter any protection that can resist it. Not even MOHAA, which gave troubles to my Plextor 24x10x40). Don't worry, be happy
guest
Posts: 15284
Posted on: 13 Jul 02 00:52
Just one precision : all drives may not be able to do the copy. But most actual CD-burner should. The Plextor 24x10x40 does, for sure.
Ljugtomten
Posts: 44
Posted on: 13 Jul 02 01:02
I can't speak for Neverwinter... but Warcraft 3 is copyable! Me and a couple of friends bought the game together, and made copies for us of it. I didn't copy the game myself, but a friend of mine who I have tought about burning did. He's got an UltraPlex 40x SCSI to read discs, and a Plextor 12,8,something SCSI to burn stuff. He's always got "Read Subchanneldata" enabled. When I meet him, I can ask exactly what settings he used.
Everitt
Posts: 147
Posted on: 13 Jul 02 01:10
i downloaded my copy and it was the happiest day of my life!
macrovisionsux
Posts: 102
Posted on: 13 Jul 02 01:11
i was able to back up Neverwinter Nights. my Toshiba SD-M1502 (firm 1012) was unable to take a correct reading. (first time i have ever actually seen a protection it can not read by the way) -- So i used Liteon 24102b (newest firm)with ccd 4.0.1.9 for both read and write. no problems. :4
maxx_76
Posts: 13
Posted on: 13 Jul 02 01:30
A friend of mine backed up NeverWinter Nights and then sold the backup copy. The person he sold the copy to tried to use the same serial number but the game told him it was already used once (?!) he then downloaded a serial number off the internet and now he does not have the network option available, all he can do is play Single Player. Neat Security feature.
the111
Posts: 362
Posted on: 13 Jul 02 01:31
Neverwinter is no problem for the Liteon24102b (24x10x40). I did it earlier this week. Not even a hitch.
guest
Posts: 15284
Posted on: 13 Jul 02 02:28
I downloaded the CloneCD-version of the game and burned it with my Lite-On 32123S and it works just fine.
guest
Posts: 15284
Posted on: 13 Jul 02 02:54
I posted the day after warcraft III came out how to backup the game but they decided not to post here ???¿¿¿
InterCepTor
Posts: 403
Posted on: 13 Jul 02 04:58
Well there are rules laid down by the CDFreaks team, and they don't condone piracy for starters. Greetz from The Diplomat :8
the111
Posts: 362
Posted on: 13 Jul 02 12:11
I think what he meant was that he scratched his original, so he downloaded a new one and burnt it.
Redneck
Posts: 2027
Posted on: 13 Jul 02 16:50
burn wc3 bin/cue you downed and you have your copy?
Arnie
Posts: 9
Posted on: 13 Jul 02 23:40
Copies fine with AOpen. Maybe you guys sould try using Blind Read/Write as well instead of just clone CD. :7
spc
Posts: 69
Posted on: 14 Jul 02 11:20
hmm have copied both NWN and Warcraft 3 with clone cd and LG 32x10x40 with perfect results :7
InterCepTor
Posts: 403
Posted on: 17 Jul 02 04:47
On a personal basis I went out and purchased WarCraft III, it got a rating of 94% in PC gamers I also own the originals of the previous Warcraft incarnations and played them too death! One point I will make is that if a game can give you hours of enjoyment, then go and buy the original, its well worth it. I was given a backup of WarCraft III, but binned it as I had planned too buy the original anyway! Greetz from The Diplomat :8 Wow it's 3:58am here in the UK time for bo bo's There are only few games worth buying, those are the ones you will get the most enjoyment from!
barb90
Posts: 1
Posted on: 11 Jul 09 14:09
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