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Name: Elaine Hudkins Date: August 7, 2003 at 05:33:03 Pacific OS: Compaq CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
I have burned a few other games with no problem but yesterday I tried to burn the "Sims" and it kept saying the CD was dirty or scratched and to clean it and try again.I did this and still the same message.I have 5 Sims games that I tried to copy and no luck with any of them. Is Sims a game that just won't copy? Is there a way to get it to copy?
Name: Xpose Date: August 7, 2003 at 05:55:19 Pacific
Reply:
Sims won't copy and I hope this is not bordering on a piracy issue... it's not welcome here!
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Response Number 2
Name: Hooner Date: August 7, 2003 at 05:58:24 Pacific
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Get off your soap box ffs, she's probably backing them up, give the girl a break you miserable old goat.
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Response Number 3
Name: Hooner Date: August 7, 2003 at 06:05:31 Pacific
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It is possible to copy them Elaine, but unforunately there is some work involved :(
Check out the replies to this post HERE for more info. Good luck.
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Response Number 4
Name: Elaine Hudkins Date: August 7, 2003 at 07:11:54 Pacific
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sry I upset anyone but I wanted to make copies so my grandson ( the younger one) can play these without scratching them up for his older brother. I have a lot of money in these dog gone games.
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Response Number 5
Name: Nelson_Ecks Date: August 7, 2003 at 09:16:35 Pacific
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I thought you have the right to own one back up copy of every single software you own. so...sims.......
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Response Number 6
Name: MindsEye Date: August 7, 2003 at 11:26:03 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Elaine It is possible to copy Sims games ... or the majority of them. I have copied The Sims, The Livin Large Expansion Pak and The Hot Date Expansion Pack with no problem whatsoever. I tried the Unleashed Expansion Pak and had all kinds of problems. I don't know if it's because it is a newer game or not. I needed to copy them for my 11 year old daughter. She is very careless with CD's and I figured she could use the copies to play her games and when they wouldn't work anymore I'd make a new copy from the originals which I am keeping safe. I used CloneCD to copy the first 3 and it works wonderfully. If you do a google search for CloneCD you will be able to download an evaluation version. The only thing is that it will only work for 21 days I think. After that you will have to pay for registration. Good luck. HTH MindsEye PS ... feel free to email me if you have any further problems.
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