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Trying to preserve a DRM protected game I have on an optical drive (old.reddit.com)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MarcellusDrum on 2025-07-29 11:35:42+00:00.

It took me a couple of years to find a disc of the game by reaching out to a guy on the developer team.

The game is protected by a custom DRM, he said it can only be decrypted by his own PC from 2007 (which he no longer has). I have his explicit permission to try and crack it, as even he no longer has a digital copy (and only 2 physical copies, he gave me one).

Trying to create an ISO took more than 6 hours to reach around 33%, and it got stuck there.

Any way to actually preserve this thing? It was never released digitally, and you can't even buy it anywhere as far as I know.

The game is Rodwan Operation. An FPS game released by Hezbollah about the Israeli/Lebanese war.

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