Originally Posted by
Storm
yeah, thats fucked up.......
this is what i understood:
game manufacturers put bad sectors on their CD's on purpose........ now if you make an image of the cd, most programs will skip the bad sectors....... cause they're useless anyway, right?
wrong, the bad sectors allow the game to see what is an original disk, and what is a fake disk........
now some games only give you this error when the game is allready installed, but maybe manufacturers have gotten smarter, and recognized the fact that you will just download a NO CD patch afterwards, so the moved the check up to the instalation
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