Alcohol 120% Question

[DanGrease]

After a thread regarding Alcohol 120% vs. Nero I decided to give it a try. I have always been a Nero user (except when EZ CD Creator was popular) and this program seemed interesting. So I downloaded the trial version, and started directly to burn a CD to see how it worked. It was an .iso file and it worked amazingly well. But when I wanted to make a CD with music files, I could find the option to do this. Then I thought, maybe Alcohol 120% is only to burn images. Is this correct? Because it looks like it is. Anyone can explain to me how it works, and if its possible to burn other things that arent images.

dan

[bfcx]

Alcohol 120% is mostly a ripping and burning of images of many kinds. it also has built in ways to circumvent disk encryption like securedisk and the like. Handy for some things. Also like the virtual drive it gives you so you can mount the image virtually without burning it.

[VHockey86]

yup, alcohol is solely for image ripping/emulation/burning

[davidamarkley]

Alcohol is the best perfect digital image burner that I've used. Even better than the infamous CloneCD. And, the emulation works flawlessly even when using up to 10 virtual drives. Nice for those things you use often that still require CDs and also those that don't have No-CD patches available for them.

Dave

[VHockey86]

ya, it works great. I normally use around 5 virtual cd-rom drives for games im currently playing. However even with the updated alcohol with securom 4.x/5.x I cant get it to work with Unreal 2k4 =(
I always like to keep my cds from getting scratched up and stuff so I like to run the images on virtual drives, oh well. Guess i'll have to keep using the cd for the meantime.

[tony_j15]

VHockey, I would search around for the No CD patch. Lot better than eating 700mb for the full CD.

[DanGrease]

oK, I see. I got amazed by its simplicity when I burned the image file in a CD. Much better than Nero that I used before. I will keep it in my computer for sure, but I will use it mainly for burning image files. Nero would be used for the rest. Dont use emulation, so that feature wont be used by any of them. Thanks for the responses guys.

dan

[mike_sanfil]

hey tony_j15, cracks are great but then sometimes when you go to update the crack will keep it from working right, and with an online multiplayer game you always need the newest version. It just makes it alot easier if you can make an image.

[VHockey86]

Originally posted by tony_j15
VHockey, I would search around for the No CD patch. Lot better than eating 700mb for the full CD.

ya, as mike said, no-cd patches arent always flawless... and call it paranoia but, ive never really been comfortable using "crack" exe files... and with 200 gigs of harddrive space having about 30 game images isnt going to hurt anything

[davidamarkley]

I've tested the UT2004 no-cd patch from GameCopyWorld, and it works great. Just rename your old .exe to .exe.bak and then keep it for when the game has a patch, then just rename the 'patched' exe to .exe.nocd and rename the original back to .exe then apply the patch. A couple days after the patch, the no-cd patch will come out and then just do the same thing with the new 1.1 version as you did with 1.0.

But, I do agree, being able to use the ISO instead of messing with the exes is always better.

Dave