20 July 2012, 15:03 | #1 |
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Is it possible to copy Graftgold protection with Action Replay?
Back a couple of years ago, in this thread about Amiga Format's Uridium 2 demo, it was mentioned by Galahad that it was possible to copy a Graftgold title - working protection and all - onto a standard AmigaDOS disk. Prowler said he was going to give this a go but never stated if he was successful with it or not.
I recently tried it myself, using AR MKIII's "DCOPY" function, but the disk afterwards (tried Virocop and Fire & Ice) would still fail the standard Graftgold disk check. I did PM Galahad a few days ago asking for clarification, but it seems he's not all that eager to get back to me, so I felt maybe a public thread about it is necessary. I have yet to try the "rt" and "wt" functions of ARIII, but have a feeling that it probably wouldn't change a thing. Is/was anyone able to get any positive results out of this? Thank you! |
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What I did state is that it is possible to image Graftgold disks, write them back out as standard AmigaDOS tracks. You would still need to actually modify the Graftgold loader to ignore the header checksum its expecting, and probably modify the decode routine for plain dos, but at no point did I say it would produce a working copy! |
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20 July 2012, 18:01 | #4 |
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Does it need to be an AR backup?
I've just copied my AF53b disk with X-Copy (nibble mode) to a blank disk and the copy plays fine! |
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