Starforce Information

[munga]

Well, seeing there has been so much talk around these forums about Starforce this may be of some help to people to understand about the protection.

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/starforcecdr

This also gives a good indication that there is bound to be some type of CD-R out there that has similar properties to this Starforce CD-R they speak of in the article, it's just a matter of finding what media is going to work.

It's only a matter of time before someone comes out with a universal fix for Starforce, sure they can create new versions, but new fixes are just as easily made.

[Tipstaff]

Nice, but 2 problems: Every drive mentioned is 2 years old, and the version describe here, is version 1. With version 3 (now in use, with version 4 on the way) the program uses a device driver-level copy protection. You can read the interview FiringSquad had with one of the guys behind Starforce here:
http://www.firingsquad.com/features/starforce_interview/

Note: Whenever they talk about Starforce they are talking about version 3.

What they don't mention is the other "things" Starforce 3 uses as part of it's protection (such as hidden code buried within the game).

You can also read up on Starforce from their own mouths.
http://www.star-force.com/index.phtml?category=16&type=5

Pay attention to the sections that say "... is the first system that offers a multi-level and fully-functional protection, which encrypts not only the executable files, but also non-executable files included in the application." Hence the difficulty in cracking games protected by this SOAB. :rolleyes:

If you check the web some more you will find even more detailed info on SF3. There are a more checks this thing does, and I would fill this entire page linking or posting that info.

[Karthik 2.0]

Pardon my interruption but how many types of version 3 are there?!

[Luciel]

well a few, u see they keep on making modifications to make it stronger

[BarryB]

Wouldn't it be best if all these posts about Starforce go in the CD Copy Protections & Utilities section instead of cluttering up the PC Games forum?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Gosh BarryB,

I wish _all_ off-topic threads in this forum were as useful as this one! :D

Joe

[Tipstaff]

hehe..

True.. but.. seeing as how I didn't start it.. hehe

Kinda funny if you think about it. There is a lot of mis-information going around about this SOAB POS MUTHA HEFFER ( :D that was fun to type) protection. Damn thing is too good. Mind you, too good for IT'S own good. Sooner or later they will get it right.. scarey thought... :(

[Luciel]

well altho it will take longer than any other protection, eventually no-cds come out (COUGH* except dtm2 *cough*) so yeah :p