Mitsumi DW-7872TE DVD±RW recorder - Page 6

- Reading Tests

To create an image of the various protected titles onto a hard disk, we used CloneCD v.4.3.2.2 software and the appropriate settings, depending on the protection type of the inserted discs. Below are summarized the capabilities of the Nec drive, according to CloneCD software. As you can see the drive supports writing of CD+G under RAW DAO:

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

PSX Pressed Media

SafeDisc v.2

SecuROM v.2

Nec managed to rip the contents of all test discs successfully. Mitsumi has an acceptable behavior in all tests. Also it was faster than Teac and Sony in all tests, especially with the PSX game.

- Writing Tests

The Mitsumi DW-7872TE supports the DAO-RAW writing mode. For checking the drive's EFM correction status, we used 3 different game titles with different SafeDisc 2 versions with the latest software patches installed. After making the images of the various titles to the hard disk, we burned them (maximum speed) with CloneCD. Two different discs were created for each title; one with the "Amplify Weak Sectors" enabled and one more with the function disabled.

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

Teac was able to make playable copies of all games we tested. The most difficult game was Fifa 2004 protected with Safedisc v3.10. In order to test the compatibility of the written media we tested the Fifa 2004 backup disc on the following devices:

The strange thing here is that the backups were not playable in the same drive, meaning the Mitsumi DW-7872TE.