LiteOn Slimtype SDW-431SX - 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 LiteOn, 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

The LiteOn returned slow ripping times with Securom and PSX protected games. With the SafeDisc2 protected game the ripping speed was acceptable but still not the fastest of the comparison.

- Writing Tests

The LiteOn 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.

Tested Device	Game Title / Protection
	Max Payne v2.51.020		Serious Sam The Second Encounter v.2.60.052		The Sims Unleashed v.2.8		The Sims Superstar v2.9		Fifa 2004 v3.10
	Amplify Weak Sectors
	Enabled	Disabled	Enabled	Disabled	Enabled	Disabled	Enabled	Disabled	Enabled	Disabled
LiteOn SDW-431S	OK	OK	OK	OK	OK	OK	OK	OK	NO	NO
Plextor PX-712A	OK	OK	OK	OK	OK	OK	OK	OK	NO	NO
Toshiba SD-M1502	OK	OK	OK	OK	OK	OK	NO	OK	NO	NO

The LiteOn drive made working backups, either with Amplify Weak sectors on and off, of all game titles except for Fifa 2004. Even with SafeDisc v2.9 the drive managed to make playable discs. The written discs were fully playable on the LiteOn and Plextor drives, while the Toshiba drive could not play the Safedisc v2.9 disc with the Amplify Weak Sectors option enabled.