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comment by jplatt39
Posted on September 1, 2009 at 2:15 am

Linux is a Unix derivative, so among the things — call them cultural — you are unlikely to have looked at is the preference for using several small programs rather than one large one for doing tasks. Thus, the program k3b mentioned above, while I use it, is what is called a mashup which provides a GUI for several command line programs (which I also use when relevant) and which — philosophically — should be able to copy anything, even if it runs on a radically different architecture.
Insert your disk and open an xterm. Close any program which wants to open — OR MOUNT — your disk automatically and unmount it if it was mounted.
type “dd if=/dev/hdc of=” /dev/hdc is a standin for your cdrom or dvd in the /dev directory and is a standin for whatever you choose to call the file, but if it’s from a computer cd or dvd name it iso.
Check to see you got a true copy of the image. Do a “md5sum /dev/hdc && md5sum ” That generates a hash number twice (the && means run a separate command) and if the two hash numbers agree then you have a true byte copy image.
Then burn the iso image to disk.
It’s not that hard.

comment by etech9
Posted on September 1, 2009 at 2:15 am

different games have different copy protection. With the newer WII and XBOX360, its your hardware you need to be worrying about! you need certain disk drives etc. PS2 games on the other hand, are simply coppied using any DVD copy tool, such as the K3B.

comment by Talented
Posted on September 1, 2009 at 2:15 am

K3B would probably be able to rip the image (i.e. as an .iso disk image) which you would then be able to mount as if it were a disk drive, or burn to another disk.