Scott,

Can you tell me what programs and a how to, on making mini ISO's (like the one you provided me for BF2?) I've gotten some games from buddies out here, and I can't get the ISO down right so that it will work. Preciate it.

-Gil

very simple. you use Alcohol 120% to do it. first open it. make sure the game you want to make a mini back-up is in the drive. then, click image making wizard. make the data type safedisc 2/3. save it ne where u want. after that start it and as quick as you can click cancel and say yes u want to cancel. but then say NO to the second question (do wish to delete it?). After that u should have a small mini back-up of ur cd. btw i try to always make my cds get to 2% before i click cancel.


btw, this only works for some Safedisc games.

The second option, which works for some Safedisc AND Starforce games is:


Heres what you do, this has only proven to work with Starforce protected games and some safedisc. To make a mini-image you need to make a image read in Alcohol 120% using the Safedisc 2/3 profile, then save the original mds. (this is critical) Take the mdf and load it in UltraISO or isobuster and delete all the data off it as this is necessary to pass the safedisc check. If you have the latest UltraISO you can save the new image as a mdf, if not save a cue/bin file, trash the cue and rename the bin to mdf to preserve the readings. The resulting file will be tiny (eg 600kb, Mount it in your VD.

Good to here from ya Gil.

Sorry it's off topic

ok, i'll lookinto doing the mini deal, and yeah it's good to be heard from. at least this way you know i'm alive still. for some reason, the forums were acting all screwy on me lately, like showing the last posts were made in the late november time frame. weird.......

yeah, we updated the nuke (php) version to the latest but it is buggy as all hell. when the php was rolled back the the wrong data base backup was installed.