Alcohol 120%

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Alcohol 120%
Developer(s) Alcohol Soft
Initial releaseOctober 2002;22 years ago (2002-10)
Stable release
2.1.1.2201 / January 7, 2023;2 years ago (2023-01-07) [1]
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Type Disc image emulator
License Shareware
Website alcohol-soft.com

Alcohol 120% is a disk image emulator and disc burning software for Microsoft Windows developed by Alcohol Soft. An edition named Alcohol 52% is also offered which lacks the burning engine. [2] The software can create image files from a source CD/DVD/Blu-ray, as well as mount them in virtual drives, all in the proprietary Media Descriptor File format; images in this format consist of a pair of .mds and .mdf files. [3]

Contents

Features

Alcohol 120%'s image recording feature is capable of bypassing certain copy protection schemes, such as SafeDisc, SecuROM, and Data Position Measurement (DPM). However, certain copy protection schemes require burner hardware that is capable of reproducing the copy protection. It can also create images of PlayStation and PlayStation 2 file systems. It lacks the ability to back up DVD titles encrypted with the Content Scramble System. Due to legal restrictions, Alcohol Soft has opted not to include this feature.

Some software manufacturers employ software blacklisting methods to prevent Alcohol 120% from copying their discs. Initially, users had to use third-party tools to counteract the blacklisting, such as Anti-blaxx, CureROM, and Y.A.S.U. Later, Alcohol 120% included its own "Alcohol Cloaking Initiative for DRM" (A.C.I.D) component. [4]

Alcohol Soft has cited it will not be developing an image editor for Alcohol 120%.

The latest versions of Alcohol 120% comes with "Alcohol Cloaking Initiative for DRM" (A.C.I.D), which hides emulated drives from SecuROM 7 and SafeDisc 4.

Formats supported

Alcohol 120%'s image making tool supports the following formats:

It also supports burning in many formats.

Supported file formats for image mounting [5] [6]
File typesDetails
.b5t BlindWrite
.b6tBlindWrite
.bwt, .bwi, .bwsBlindWrite
.ccd + .img + .sub CloneCD
.cdi DiscJuggler
.bin + .cue CDRWIN
.iso ISO image
.isz Compressed ISO image
.mds + .mdf Media Descriptor Image
.nrg, .nri Nero Burning ROM
.pdiInstant Copy

Other editions

Awards

See also

References

  1. "Alcohol Soft Product Support".
  2. "Alcohol Software Homepage". alcohol-software.com. Archived from the original on 24 Nov 2002.
  3. "Alcohol 120%/52% Manual". support.alcohol-soft.com. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  4. Alcohol 120%/52% Manual
  5. "Alcohol Soft: Knowledgebase".
  6. "Alcohol Soft".
  7. "Alcohol 52% Free Edition - Filefacts.com".
  8. Alcohol 68% (archive.org cache), Alcohol Soft, 2002
  9. "Alcohol 120% Installation".
  10. "酒精虛擬光碟「降級」登場,免費下載相容Windows 95/98/Me的Alcohol 120% Retro Edition". Techbang.
  11. "Alcohol 120% Retro Edition - Filefacts.com".
  12. "Alcohol Software Wins Epsilon Award for Software Excellence" (PDF). 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-13. Retrieved 2007-02-28.