Artec VPP-8D24Q - Page 6

- Reading Tests

To create an image of the various protected titles onto a hard disk, we used Alcohol 120% v1.4.8.1222 and the appropriate settings, depending on the protection type of the inserted discs. Below the capabilities of the Artec drive summarized, according to CloneCD software. The summary below shows that the drive supports CD+G writing under RAW DAO:

The game titles we used to test the reading speed for each protection scheme are presented in the table below:

PSX Pressed Media

SafeDisc v.2

SecuROM v.2

In all cases, the Artec drive seems to be a fast drive for ripping.

- Writing Tests

Artec supports DAO-RAW writing mode. For checking the drive's EFM correction status, we used 5 different game titles with different SafeDisc versions and with the latest software patches installed. After making the image files of the various titles to the hard disk, we burned them (maximum speed) with Alcohol 120%. Two different discs were created for each title; one with the "Bypass EFM error" enabled and one more with the function disabled.

The table below shows the results of the attempted backups and whether they work (game installed / played normally), or not.

The Artec drive failed to make working backups of the protected games. Only with the oldest version of SafeDisc and EFM enabled could we make a working backup, but then again, this game is can be backed up with almost all drives we have tested.