IBM PC: SecuROM / StarForce protection
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This guide will help you understand, identify and properly dump SecuROM and StarForce protected games.
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Known Information and Features
SecuROM is a CD/DVD copy protection and digital rights management product developed by Sony DADC. SecuROM aims to resist home media duplication devices, professional duplicators, and attempts at reverse engineering software. It is most often used for commercial computer games running under the Microsoft Windows platform.
StarForce is a software copy protection mechanism developed by Protection Technology.
Mesurements
SecuROM and StarForce are called Physical Protections because they perform mesurements, like calculating sector distances, in CDs and DVDs. Both install a rootkit upon installation of the game and can only be removed by using official.
Twin Sectors
The 4th sector from the end is a twin sector which means it exists twice in the CD. It is usually skiped (corrected by drive) by common software and cannot be burned as it breaks the standard. CDMage will detect the twin sector, as arrorenous, if the CD is dumped correctly.
Detection
For this you need BurnOut or ProtectionID.
Dumping
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