Asus DRW-0804P - Page 4

Protected Disc Tests

- Reading Tests

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

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

Game Title	Protection Scheme
PSX "NBA Jam Extreme"	Lybcrypt
Serious Sam The Second Encounter v1.07	SafeDisc v.2.60.052
VRally II	SecuROM v.2

PSX Pressed Media

SafeDisc v.2

SecuROM v.2

- Writing Tests

The drive supports the DAO-RAW writing mode. For checking the drive's EFM correction status, we used 3 different game titles with different SafeDisc versions. After making the image files of the various titles to the hard disk, we burned them (maximum speed) with Alcohol and we played each burnt disc on the following three devices. Two different discs were created for each title; one with the "Amplify Weak Sectors " enabled and one with the function disabled.

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

Drive	Fifa 2004 SD v3.1		Sims Superstar SD v2.9		Sims Unleashed SD v2.8		Serious Sam-Second Encounter v1.07 SD v2.60.052		Max Payne SD v2.51.020
	EFM OFF	EFM ON	EFM OFF	EFM ON	EFM OFF	EFM ON	EFM OFF	EFM ON	EFM OFF	EFM ON
Toshiba SD-M1502	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Creative CD5233E	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Asus	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

The Asus drive proved weak with backups of protected games. Although the drive made copies up to v2.8, the discs were only playable on the Asus device itself while the other two readers couldn't start the backed up games.