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The whole process takes about seven minutes including the time it takes to build a disk image, and is incredibly easy to follow. It works extremely well and can be pretty much left unattended once you've loaded and quit the game. If you have loads of games installed, you can take advantage of it's folder options for grouping profiles together. And as an added bonus, you can even use parental controls on titles as well.

One other nice feature is the ability to right click any game icon on your desktop and have Game Jackal make a profile from there, so you don't even have to launch the application first, a neat touch that.

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Conclusion
With alternatives like Daemon Tools and Alcohol 120% mainly geared towards imaging an entire disk, which with DVDs can really consume a lot of hard drive space, Game Jackal Pro offers an extremely elegant and useful solution to the problem of disk swapping amongst avid PC gamers.

Not only does it allow you to not require your original disk in the drive, it is perfect for people who duplicate their game installations on second machines such as laptops, and do not wish to carry around the CDs and DVDs of their already installed games everywhere they go with them.

Following a similar update scheme as other Slysoft products such as AnyDVD, it is priced at a quite reasonable 29 euros for two years worth of free updates. This is really not a huge amount to pay for something so useful, it's cheaper than replacing scratched disks, and much cheaper than the competition.

Pros
  • Very easy to use
  • Parental guardian features
  • Saves wear and tear on media
  • Doesn't create a virtual drive
  • High level of game compatibility
  • Regularly updated
  • Good skinnable user interface
  • Additional useful options
  • Trial version available

Cons
  • Hard to find any

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