Game Jackal Pro test

The major reason that you can’t play your games without inserting your CD/DVD’s is due to the copy protection. There is of course a good reason that anti-pirate procedures are put into place, but these nevertheless provide some problems for honest users (with this not preventing piracy in the end anyway). The problems are often the noise that comes from optical drives and the fragility of CD/DVD’s (scratches, dust, heat, etc).





Without going into the historical and technical details, TAGES™ is a semi-software and semi-hardware protection method that is extremely efficient and makes it impossible to backup, emulate or physically copy a CD/DVD. You can find some examples of this with the games Beyond Good & Evil, Moto Racer 3 and Fahrenheit. This protection imposes a pressing method that is unique and difficult to put into place, but which makes it impossible to reproduce with burners that are available on the market. It is difficult to explain the reasons that the software makers have given for being late with the TAGES™ protection method. This means that there is still essentially three kinds of anti-copy protection methods today present on the games market: Safedisc (macrovision), Securom and Starforce.




While the techniques put into place are different, these three protection methods function all in the same way:

• Each of these protections call on the hardware support when being created (physical structure of the disc, preceded by the specific pressing allowing you to insert electronic protection keys into the structure, etc).
• In the event that burning software is detected, or that a virtual drive is activated, the protection will prevent the application for running. This will prevent the reproduction of the digital signatures.

Simply, if these protections allow you to prevent piracy, they in reality limit the damage as most games can still be found easily on the internet.