> > Our ability to currently run a properly dumped protected original is sketchy at the > > moment. > > I seem to remember reading that there was at least one manufacturer that had copy > protection that relied on physically damaged media. I think the disks had holes > punched through certain spots (tracks?) using a laser. The protection involved having > the software try to read from that damaged spot while loading. If the read was > successful, then the disk was an illegal copy. > > I'm not sure if there's a way to "properly dump" something with deliberately damaged > media.
This doesn't seem like a blocking issue to me. The drive would report _something_ back whether the disk is damaged, or even missing from the drive entirely. The copy protection would simply rely on getting what it expects back from the disk drive controller which could be provided via emulation if some kind of standard is agreed upon to represent this.
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