DAEMON Tools is a virtual DVD-ROM emulator based on a SCSI miniport driver. It emulates max. 4 DVD-ROM drives and works with CD/DVD images created by many burning programs. It is great on notebooks without a physical CD-/DVD-ROM drive or to save akku power and speed up CD/DVD access. In opposite to other CD-/DVD-ROM emulators DAEMON Tools doesn't use a proprietary container format. The advantage is that you can can burn the images you're using with DAEMON Tools right away or just test an image before burning it to see if it was created correctly. DAEMON Tools works with most image formats and supports nearly any CD copy protection. Moreover it has a special feature to make physical (burned) backups of many copy protected CDs work.It supports Alcohol120%-Images (MDS-Files) and RMPS-Media (Emulates physical characteristics of protected CD's (like VOB-Protect, Starforce 1/2 and the so-called Securom V4.8x!)) DAEMON Tools also supporting Playstation(R) images to use with PSX emulators like Virtual Game Station or bleem! It's also great if you want save Power on your Notebook.