Clone CD is a
CD-ROM burning program
developed by
Elaborate Bytes. Unlike
Nero and other burners, Clone CD writes in
RAW 1:1 (
RAW-DAO and
RAW-SAO). This basiacally means that what you see is what you get. It burns an
exact copy of the
CD, with
copyright protection if it has any. It simply reads and copies, allowing it to
bypass copyright where Nero and others cannot. So far, the only copyright
protection which is effective in stopping Clone CD is
SecuRom and
SecuRom v2. There are, however, ways around this. Home users have created
add-ons for the program, in ways of
databases.
The Clone CD Database,
TCCT and
Perfect Copy are all examples of such databases. They provide Clone CD with
intimate knowledge on a number of games in their database, and allow Clone CD to
therefore bypass the copyright. These databases are similar to
copyright protection scouts and the likes, but these add-ons work better with Clone CD.
If all the above fails, there are always other ways to burn your CD. Using the program Virtual CD will allow you to mount the CD to your drive (Virtual CD hasn't failed to bypass copyright protection yet) and then Clone CD may be able to burn the CD from your virtual drive. Clone CD is the best burning program for CD copies, however it is lacking in its compilation burning. Best to keep
Nero on hand for those Mixed CDs.
You can find Clone CD at: http://elby.ch/english/products/clone_cd/download.html
You can find the Clone CD databases at: http://www.megagames.com/news/html/cdr/cdr.shtml or http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_utils_2.shtml