In order to avoid piracy the playstation is unable to normally run backup
cds. However, there are tools you can buy that take a thin layer of plastic
off the bottom of the cd to get rid of scratches. (This works since the data
is at the top of the cd, below the label.) I've seen this for sale at video
game stores like Electronic Boutique. I also know that some video game
rental places can take your cd for about $4-$5, and send it away to be
polished. We did this once with one of our playstation cds that would no
longer run.

Nick Bourgeois



> My son has a play station and almost all of his games are damaged in
> some way from scratches on the CD-Roms. We just bought him a Spiderman
> game and I thought I could copy it using my Nero software (make a copy
> of the CD) and let him use the copy. That way, if the copy gets damaged
> and doesn't work any more, I'll still have the original to work with.
> However, after I made a copy, it wouldn't work in the game console. (I
> made the copy not on the fly but creating an image to disk and then
> taking the info from the hard drive to the burned CD-R.)
>
> What did I do wrong? Is there a way to copy these games? I am not a
> pirate, I just want to protect my investment.
>
> Jean Bourvic
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