Liteon & cloneCD backup but still need no CD crack? Y?

[Varung]

I have the 40-12-48 liteon I made a copy of AOE2 and I still get the need the correct CD message.
it's also the same when I download a clone CD image and burn it with liteon, I still need the no CD crack
anyone know Y is this? arn't backups made with Liteon and CloneCD pass the protection??
do I need to change some options in CloneCD before I burn the games?

Thanks for any help on this

[Copy Lord]

First, are you trying to play the game from a 'standard' CD-ROM / DVD drive, or the burner itself?

If you are trying to play from the burner, that is the problem. You need to enable HIDE CD-R Media. OR, play from a CD-ROM drive / DVD drive.

If you are playing from a 'standard' drive & still have this problem, you most likely have the wrong settings. What settings did you use? What speeds?

[celtic_druid]

I would think that AOE2 was too early to use an ATIP check.. Does the image work ok when mounted with Daemon-Tools or Alcohol??

[Copy Lord]

It may have been, but I have heard of some instances where copies that were not burned properly would not work in burners for some strange reason.

[psibob84]

if its the newer ver of SD2 (2.5 and above i think) then no matter how perfect the copy if it is used in a cdr/w drive then it will not work with something like clone cd's hide cdr function.
but that far back i doubt that is the case.
make sure under read and write options you include sub chanell data and audio and Amplify weak sectors

[celtic_druid]

SafeDisc and SD2 for that matter does not require any subchannel data. Also SD1 doesn't need AWS, neither does SD2 using a Lite-On 40X.

I'm pretty sure that EO2 is just protected with SD1.. Read with FES enabled and write in at least RAW SAO.

[Varung]

Thanks for all the info. and help everyone.
I have been using my burnar to play the games, so I think that would be the problem.
at the moment I don't have a CD drive I only have burners on my PC, I can't realy try them yet. but in few days I'll have my new PC with a CD drive and I'll try it out on it.
again Thanks for ALL the HELP, didn't know it matters if run the game from CD-r or CD drives