Game Clone Reviewer's Comments
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GameClone by Barking Fish is a less-powerful version of the now discontinued GamesXCopy, offering all the same tools and features except the ability to directly burn an image (an exact copy of a game) to a disc. This means you can only play your backup copy through a virtual drive on your computer.
Ease of Use:
GameClone is straight forward, with basic icons for intuitive navigation throughout. Within Expert Mode, GameClone offers advanced options to manipulate the copy further.
Ease of Setup:
Installing GameClone was a snap; we didn't have any trouble.
Feature Set:
As with GamesXCopy, we appreciated GameClone's virtual drives-you can run four separate drives at once. We had a similar problem with GamesXCopy. The virtual drives had difficulty playing games protected by SecuROM. With GamesXCopy, you could simply burn the game onto a disc to alleviate the problem, but since GameClone can't burn to a disc, you are stuck. This is the reason for the low "Features Set" score in our review. GameClone does offer an ATIP Hide function.
Due to its inability to burn games to disc, GameClone is unable to create backup copies for console gaming systems like XBox and PlayStation.
Quality of Copy:
All GameClone backup copies we made could play in the virtual drive and worked flawlessly.
Protection Removal:
GameClone does an adequate job overcoming most protections, but can't fully overcome the SecuROM protection with its current virtual drives. GameClone has not improved on GamesXCopy's protection removal abilities, so it will be interesting to watch how GameClone stacks up against future protections.
Help/Documentation:
Barking Fish provides support for GameClone via their website in the form of a one-question FAQ and email support. We were disappointed in the fact that GameClone doesn't come with a manual and the addition of such would greatly increase the product's usability.
Summary:
GameClone by Barking Fish is a decent program, but has some major issues that need to be addressed before it can be a true competitor in the game copy software market. Perhaps someday GameClone will reach the heights its predecessor once reached.but it won't be today.
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