Dumping SafeDisc CD's

[Jackal]

You can use CD Manipulator for dumping SafeDisc CD's



To be sure that the all corrupted sectors are dumped properly, it's important that a disc is at least dumped twice on different drives (and that the checksum matches on both drives).

If your disc also has audio sectors, it's important that you cut off the SafeDisc image to the size of the data track, and dump the audio tracks the normal way.

After dumping a proper SafeDisc image, you'll also have to include the following info:

- Amount of SafeDisc sectors. You can check this by opening the image in CDmage and scanning for corruption. The SafeDisc sectors will be within the range of 807 - 11920 (if you get them outside of this range, let us know) and will have a Medium Severity.
- SafeDisc version. Download Protection ID and open one of the game executables on the CD with it to get the SafeDisc version.

[MrX_Cuci]

Here a nice little tool to analyze safedisc version. Source code included: http://www.generalfiles.biz/download/gs … r.zip.html

[Nexy]

Does someone have this tool without all the crappy ads attached. (the one MrX posted).

Also what is wrong with CloneCD? I am NOT redumping a couple of hundred discs if the fill pattern is different than 55.

[Jackal]

It gives the same output as clonecd.. But I think DIC does safedisc sector filling now too.

[reentrant]

I have a Settlers IV game that is protected with SafeDisc. Is it possible that sectors are corrupted in more than one range? The ranges are:
1) 67 to 10066
2) 93024 to 93025
3) 275049 to 275050
4) 286368 to 286369
5) 303979 to 303980

I have 3 CDs with the same game (I bough the game 3 times). Each one of them has different combination of corrupted ranges:

CD1: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5
CD2: 1 + 2 + 4 + 5
CD3: 1 + 4 + 5

Safedisc v2.51.021

What to do with this stuff?

[MrX_Cuci]

http://gamedata.box.sk/leech.php?id=ext … alyser.zip

Does someone have this tool without all the crappy ads attached. (the one MrX posted).

Also what is wrong with CloneCD? I am NOT redumping a couple of hundred discs if the fill pattern is different than 55.

[F1ReB4LL]

http://gamedata.box.sk/leech.php?id=ext … alyser.zip

Redirects to http://www.ggmania.com/

[reentrant]

If you put the link to JDownloader for example the file is downloaded...

[ssjkakaroto]

What is the proper way to dump Safedisc games that have corrupted sectors outside of the protection range (because of scratches on the disc)? If I use DIC without the /rc option or CDManipulator without the Ignore read errors, will it work?

[reentrant]

AFAIR in DIC, if you omit /rc, dumping process will fail. You must use /rc. Faulty sectors will be replaced with 0x55. You would have to patch in sectors from different image...