IBM PC: SecuROM / StarForce protection

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This guide will help you understand, identify and properly dump SecuROM and StarForce protected games.

Work In Progress

Contents 1 Known Information and Features 1.1 Mesurements 1.2 Twin Sectors 2 Detection 3 Dumping

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.

• Games: Unreal Tournament 2003 (SecuROM).
• Games: Namco Museum: 50th Anniversary (StarForce).

Detection

For this you need BurnOut or ProtectionID.

Dumping

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