Copying an original BF2 DVD for legit purposes

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arjie

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Hi,

Does anyone know how I can make an exact duplicate of my Battlefield 2: Complete Collection DVD? It's an original copy and I have a registered CD key. The thing is that I have to keep putting in the damn thing to play the game (which is retarded) and I'm sure it's going to fail eventually considering it already has scratches.

I'd like to duplicate it and keep the original disc safe. Is this possible? I suppose I could make an image that I could mount off my hard drive, but I only have a 160 GB drive, so I'd prefer not having to fill it up with stuff like this.

Thanks for reading.
 
arjie said:
Hi,

Does anyone know how I can make an exact duplicate of my Battlefield 2: Complete Collection DVD? It's an original copy and I have a registered CD key. The thing is that I have to keep putting in the damn thing to play the game (which is retarded) and I'm sure it's going to fail eventually considering it already has scratches.

I'd like to duplicate it and keep the original disc safe. Is this possible? I suppose I could make an image that I could mount off my hard drive, but I only have a 160 GB drive, so I'd prefer not having to fill it up with stuff like this.

Thanks for reading.
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Step1: Make an image.
Step2: Burn the image to a CD/DVD.
Step3: Play
 
A cloned image would not work in most cases. Most piracy protection mechanisms these days use some kind of sub sector data to validate the authenticity of the disk. This data will not get copied when a clone disk is made and the game will easily catch this. A NO-CD EXE is your best bet if you are going to play single player, for multi-player don't even bother with such things any sort of modification to the EXE or even the in memory game data is caught by the Anti-Cheat systems and you will be kicked/banned from the server.

However, many multi player games do not require the DVD for on-line sessions. They just validate the serial key. Not sure if BF2 follows this.
 
Battlefield 2 works fine in multiplayer mode with a NO-DVD crack from gamecopyworld.com. Been playing since 4 years now, absolutely no issues.
 
Thanks everyone for your help. Simply copying the disc does not work. Neither does cloning the CD.

|Anish| said:
Battlefield 2 works fine in multiplayer mode with a NO-DVD crack from gamecopyworld.com. Been playing since 4 years now, absolutely no issues.
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Thanks Anish, this is fine. I'll just do this then.
 
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