The sims protection [; ; winXP]

[kawawes]

Whe using Clony, How do I burn my sims games so the CD protection doesn't come into effect. For example, I put my burnt sims game into the cd player and the start screen comes up like normal, but when I click on play, It doesn't reconize the disk!!! Please Help!!!!!!!!!

[celtic_druid]

We just talking the original sims here?? Because that is only protected with SafeDisc1. Some of the others are protected with SD2, as Clony should have told you.

Creating SD2 copies is somewhat dependant on your hardware, especially with the newer versions. Also newer SD2 CD's contain an ATIP check, which means that copies will not run in a CDRW drive, at least not without something like hide CDR enabled.

[kawawes]

I'm having problems burning all of them. Using clony, it tells me that the sim games are near impossible to burn, refering to the amount of skulls showing up which is eight.

[fawlty]

The original was SD1. Livin Large & House Party & Hot Date were SD2. Vacation was a later version of SD2 which which was a bit more difficult. All of these are burnable using CloneCD & compatible hardware. I believe the latest Sims bundle (unleashed?) is not able to be copied 1:1.

[celtic_druid]

As far as I know unleashed is still protected with SD2, so a 1:1 copy is still possible, just perhaps not with Clone CD.

[Gibbo121]

I backed up a copy of the sims using clone cd and it works fine, i just made an image with clone cd and then just burnt it