SRL Archive - Computer Help and Tutorials

well i was asking for help on this a few hours ago, but ended up figuring out a way to do this after a couple of hours, and decided to save u those couple of hours by telling u how…

-note:usually .cue's are not needed but in multi session they are.
this was an old game that used multi session as a copy protection, so this shouldnt arise on the newer games.as it can easily be ripped, but apparently not so easy to copy

first a little description of what the situation was:
i had a game that was multi session. which means it needed a complex image file consisting of a pointer and the raw data.
the .cue is the pointer (hence cue) and the .bin is the raw data. somtimes it will be .raw. sure it was easy to burn a .iso because it was 1 file and u just press a button or two. but with multi session, it was a skank! i ended up wasting 2 dvds and 3 cds plus 1 success. i tried converting it, but the converted file could only be mounted and not burned…i though of a few ingenious ways to do it. and it seemed like it worked but it didnt, so i figured out another ingenious way.

just mount the .cue with a virtual drive, and then open ur burning software and select exact copy or somthing, and just burn it. i realized this after sitting about 5 min in the quiet lol…i was like "the virtual drive applies to the whole pc! my burner will think its real too!"
so yeah. its actualy that easy…….

ps:some images are multi session images from non multi session cds, in this case u can just use a converter. but wtf dont we all just use 1 frkeken format?!?!?! 1 awsome good format?!?! .uif would be nice!!! universal image format…not actually universal. it only works on like 4 mounters lmao
the real universal is .iso.
thnx all the people that tried to help atleast!but i got it!

Just in case someone needs some software to burn or mount the images, I'll put these here too:

Daemon-Tools: CD Emulation Software (can mount almost anything): http://www.daemon-tools.cc
IMGBurn: Free Awesome CD Burning Software :p : http://www.imgburn.com/

And for newer copy-protection schemes (mainly games), you can get YASU, I'm not even sure what you'd call it :p, just put it in the same folder that you installed Daemon-Tools to: http://copybase.org/yasu/

thnks widget…i probably shoulda added that, but u have to run yasu too u cant just put it in the folder. just for those who dont know, yasu is a was to hide your mounter\virtual drive. Deamon tools lite is the best mounter that is free. infact, its better then the deamon tools advance pro….mainly because its on the taskbar, and is super easy to use and no little ads.

Nice. I always converted to .iso myself lol.

Same did i lol

ok so i dug some more stuff up, and yeah…it says that
the standard image file for not multisession cds is .iso (9360-or somthing) and that its now succeded by .iso (13000-somthing) but i cant find any image grabber that takes the .iso 13k, which supports multi session. although, .uif is suceeded by .udf (universal disk file) which is supposedly the most common…yet all i see is .iso and .mds (deamon tools image)[da best]…also i looked up some sector info and it said that secto 0-15 is like the start up, and where all the copy protection is??? im not sure, dont recall….