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Protected Disc Tests

- Reading Tests

To create an image of the various protected titles onto a hard disk, we used Alcohol 120% and the appropriate settings, depending on the protection type of the inserted discs. Below are summarized the capabilities of tested device, according to CloneCD software. The summary below shows that the drive supports writing of CD+G under RAW DAO:

The game titles we used to test the reading speed for each protection scheme are given in the table below:

PSX Pressed Media

SafeDisc v.2

SecuROM v.2

The table below shows the results of the attempted backups and whether they worked (game installed / played normally), or not.

The AOpen drive managed to successfully backup only the disc with the oldest version of SafeDisc protection scheme.