On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Vincent Pelletier plr.vincent@gmail.com wrote:
On the iso & copy protection topic: It is possible to generate bin + toc images from cds with cdrdao[1] and to mount them with fuseiso[2]. This *might* improve copy protection support. No idea on how portable nor how efficient it can be.
[1] Something along the lines of cdrdao read-cd --driver generic-mmc-raw --read-raw --device /dev/xxx \ foo.toc Maybe with --read-subchan too. [2] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FuseIso
I'm working on this now, actually. So far we've lucked out and all games tested installed fine from ISO's, but Bioshock refuses to install without the real DVD in the drive.
I'm ripping it now, but it's pretty slow, comparatively. Tons of: Found L-EC error at sector 1589216 - ignored. Found L-EC error at sector 1589217 - ignored. Found L-EC error at sector 1589218 - ignored. Found L-EC error at sector 1589219 - ignored.