Alcohol 120%

Alcohol 120%

Image Making Wizard in Alcohol 120%
Developer(s)	Alcohol Soft
Stable release	2.0.3.8806 / April 7, 2016; 15 months ago (2016-04-07)
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Disc image emulator and optical disc authoring software
License	Shareware
Website	www.alcohol-soft.com

Alcohol 120% is an optical disc authoring program and disk image emulator created by Alcohol Soft.

Alcohol 120% can also mount disc images, with support for their proprietary Media Descriptor Image (.mds/.mdf) disc image format. It is capable of converting image files to the ISO format. Alcohol Soft has cited it will not be developing an image editor for Alcohol 120%.

The latest versions of Alcohol 120% contain the A.C.I.D. wizard. A.C.I.D., or "Alcohol Cloaking Initiative for DRM" (based originally on the Y.A.S.U. application), operates as an "SCSI-drive protector" which hides emulated drives from SecuROM 7 and SafeDisc 4.

The file formats supported by Alcohol 120%'s image mounting feature are listed in the table on the right.

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

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 blacklist methods to prevent Alcohol 120% from copying the software. There are third party tools available that attempt to counteract the blacklist methods, such as Anti-blaxx and CureROM. These two programs have been replaced by A.C.I.D.