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Old 03-22-2001, 06:01 PM   #1
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Hey all....I have 3 games that I try to run on my cdrom
and they read as an audio cd and I cant open them...any ideas???Thanx in advance.

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Do all games you try to run do this or just 3? If so, which 3? HTH
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Old 03-22-2001, 06:32 PM   #3
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Just 3 games

This post is for a friend so I dont know what 3 as they are not home right now.Im sure they are not the same manufacturer and I did have this problem once myself but just gave the game away.Im wondering if a firmware upgrade might solve the problem or using the manufacturers driver as opposed to the windows standard driver.

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What kind of cdrom has he got? Do the games do this in any kind of cdrom or just in his? HTH
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If they are copied games, there may be an incompatability with the CD-Rom, or the CD-Rom may be going south.
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They play in other roms ok just not in this one.But all other games play ok in his ROM other than these 3.The rom is a Mitsumi.

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On a copied game, just because it works on one drive, doesn't mean they will work on all. I have 2 program update CD's (recordables) from one of my corporate clients where these CD's will not work on their server, but if I make a copy of these CD's, they work fine.
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