AntiStarforce Tool!!

[bierhuettl]

edited by me on nov 29:

www.cdsteam.net - get the proggi there - it WORKS - i tested it with the fall: last days of gaia and a mini image created with MIR - perfectly. you just have to config it a bit, complicated if you are not german cause the readme is german.

[bierhuettl]

the documentation is only in german.

so the main thing is you dont have the system harddisk at the same ide cable like one of the atapi ide drives... i deactivated my drives over .bat files, which reactivate them after you click "ok", but you have to let the batch files open while playing, a message box says so. then a STAR****.exe tool patches your registry.

Well, I have to say it did not work for the first try with my image mounted in alcohol. the Starforce protection system checked the image for about a minute, then gave the error that the key on the disc is not correct. I will try it with daemon now and I hope it will work!!

[munsterbuster]

The tool is now 2 weeks old and working fine. All cd/dvd drives should be on secondary ide and put a disc in the drives. No matter what for a disc, it makes the rescan easier and safer unless you want to reboot. :D
Btw you can mount the mini images of starforce games in daemon or alcohol. No difference.

[bierhuettl]

well in the .nfo that comes with it it says the prog was released on nov 22... so star**** claims to be able to "****" starforce 3.4.63.xxx while the fall only uses 3.4.62, so, should it work? do you use aggressive method or do you even use the batch that deactives the whole ide cable?

i use cd drives on the both ide cables that are on my mainboard, my hd's are hanging at a seperate pci ide controller. i am mounting the image of the disc 1 of the game with daemon, i created it with alcohol with starforce profile, 1x dpm measure. i deactivate primary and secondary ide with agressive option, and when trying to patch with star**** he says "found 2 drivers, patched 0", what is that?

the game refuses to work with the message that the entered key is not correct. what should i do now?

another problem is that there are no settings if you got drives at primary AND secondary, cause i got three optical drives. the ini files are only either for primary or secondary.

can you help me? do i need a real mini image like the ones you can download for some games or should a real image also do? thanks.

[EMPiRE]

The file, when executed, is recognized by McAfee to be a Trojan: PWS-Ilg.dr (http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_130220.htm)

So be careful!

[bierhuettl]

beautiful. i was just wondering why the original tool is only 400kb of size. i will delete that one now.

[Magnetic]

the trojan? is it in the link on top?

[EMPiRE]

There is currently not much to be found on PWS-Ilg.dr (PWS = Password Stealer) as it was detected 4 days ago and it has been given a low risk.

McAfee seems to be to only one who has a "fix" for it!

Also the site "gameplusplus.com", where the file is located, looks very suspicious... with only 1 line of text:

A free set utility of anti starforce. download it.

[bierhuettl]

Please change the text on your main page!!!

Currently a tool called AntiStarForce has been released on a dummy website, which looks to be a TROJAN/VIRUS!
When executed it extracts a few files, including antistarforce.exe, which is being detected by McAfee as a TROJAN called: PWS-Ilg.dr

Only the person who packed the tool into a setup added a trojan, but the tool is real, its called STAR F U C K, and it is also contained there in a subfolder and seems to work for many people. So as long you do not run antistarforce.exe after installing it, there will be no problem.[/

[Morglum007]

The tool here is mentiones is called "Star****er". It were "released" on November 22th, as someone posted above, and only will be available "Clean" on some web sites, including mine (CdSTEam).

In a few days will be fully support in spanish, english, german or russian.

In a few days too will be available a new version of that tool, with improved anti-blacklisting code.

TIP: There is only four .bat for hiding primary or secondary IDE drives (normal and agressive) and Star****.exe which runs Protection patcher.

TIP#2: This tool is totally free and legal, cause it does not modify anything from the game or the starforce engine itself. It just hides IDE drives to Win, and in consecuence, to Starforce. No mistery here.

Morg @ CdSTeam

[Grumpy]

@Morglum
In a few days will be fully support in spanish, english, german or russian
This is excellent news! You will then have lots more visitors to your site. :)
Good news about the Starforce patch as well. ;)

[chaosmaster]

In a few days will be fully support in spanish, english, german or russian.


Could you write here if and where exactly(link) the tool will be available in other languages?

[bierhuettl]

The tool here is mentiones is called "Star****er". It were "released" on November 22th, as someone posted above, and only will be available "Clean" on some web sites, including mine (CdSTEam).

In a few days will be fully support in spanish, english, german or russian.

In a few days too will be available a new version of that tool, with improved anti-blacklisting code.

TIP: There is only four .bat for hiding primary or secondary IDE drives (normal and agressive) and Star****.exe which runs Protection patcher.

TIP#2: This tool is totally free and legal, cause it does not modify anything from the game or the starforce engine itself. It just hides IDE drives to Win, and in consecuence, to Starforce. No mistery here.

Morg @ CdSTeam

The problem is that i got my three optical ide drives at the primary AND the secondary ide onboard controllers... and star****er seems to only be able to deactivate one of them. what do i do new?

btw. my version there, that trojaned one, included only german help files.

anyway, the game does not recognize my image as game disc after checking about one minute or more, it says the entered key isnt correct for the corresponding one... so, what now?? is it cause i dont use a miniimage but the real image of the starforce protected disc? or is it cause the keys are blacklisted? thx

[Morglum007]

@chaosmaster: When available it will be shown.
@bierhuettl:

u should run first hide primary ide drives, and then secundary ones. I have same configuration and sometimes doesn't hide what it should hide, but finally it goes the right place. This should be fixed in the future, but i say it is a bad IDE configuration for THIS purposes.
Finally, making a working SF image is not so easy, so if it doesn't launch, maybe image has a bad .mds
SF doesn't blacklist keys, cause it will be blacklisting a mill original CDs cargo.

Don't know if i replied u correctly.

morg

Tip: Here (http://www.cdsteam.net/modules/mydownloads/) it is (by now) the german, russian and english files. It is in english by default.

[bierhuettl]

yes, i did it.

the cause it did not work was that i did not use MIR to shrink the game image to a mini image... with mini image it works perfectly!!

i created a new profile for my pc with a cdrom.ini file for my drives... and then i modified one of the rapid batch files and i can start the game over this links now. **** this is complicated.

[Valime]

What happens if during a play there is a freeze that force us to reboot the pc without being able to reactivate the drives from Windows ? Do we lose them or are they automatically reactivated by the reboot ?
With this, do we still need to do the registry thing with Daemon and Alcohol ?
Do we still need to use the StarforceClean to remove the SF device driver ?

[bierhuettl]

drives are restored after playing and if not, reboot and then they appear again. i did NOTHING like registry hacking, sfclean or something else. just used that prog. i am sure there will a more user-friendly prog rel soon

btw if you noticed there is a new version released today, version 0.8, the changelog only says that there are some small unnamed changes and unneeded files were deleted, nothing else. and some more help files in other languages are in there

@morglum it was NO good idea to overwrite all language files for star****.exe with spanish ones... i do not understand a bit and will continue using the old version, because the new 0.8 did not deactivate all my drives but i was using the same settings files like the older one... but the ability to be able to deactive within the program is good, i would want that more instead of a shortcut that has to be specified for every game again. maybe i write my own gui.

[Morglum007]

Ups, sorry, there were some mistakes when compressing. Right version is now OK. As u have said, it is in spanish by default, but it can be easyly changed by turning in /program/settings.ini "Language=English" or whatever u wanted.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
We still accept recomendations.

Morg @ CdSTeam

TIP: New version support till SF 3.4.63.XXX, it have been added the spanish language and .lnk were supressed in order to make more powerfull the tool. Now we can turn both drives and IDE, or just Drives.
I think we don't forgot something.

[bierhuettl]

Ups, sorry, there were some mistakes when compressing. Right version is now OK. As u have said, it is in spanish by default, but it can be easyly changed by turning in /program/settings.ini "Language=English" or whatever u wanted.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
We still accept recomendations.

Morg @ CdSTeam

TIP: New version support till SF 3.4.63.XXX, it have been added the spanish language and .lnk were supressed in order to make more powerfull the tool. Now we can turn both drives and IDE, or just Drives.
I think we don't forgot something.

it cant be turned german or english, at least not the user interface of star****.exe because you replaced every button image with spanish ones

[Morglum007]

Have been fixed now. Anyway, it is not totally translated. Original pics from first Star****er are now correctly placed. New ones were an improvement for spanish version, and should be fixed soon.

Sorry! ;\

[bierhuettl]

I noticed that the new tool does not work correctly with the same config files that do for me with the older version... That is kind of strange, not all my cd drives get deactivated when I try over the star****.exe DEACTIVATE button... even if I use my file that perfectly deactives all drives in the old version. I will try again

[bierhuettl]

So after looking into 0.8 i modded it to my needs (german, my settings that worked with the fall, removed unneeded things etc) and what can I say? Perfectly. I can load up the prog, deactivate my drives, patch the drivers and start any game I want. After playing I reactivate and exit -> perfectly.

Thank you so much

[RGT88]

Are there instructions in english step-by-step on how to use this?

[Ck-NoSFeRaTU]

Are there instructions in english step-by-step on how to use this?
You really need english manual? Get version 0.81Beta & don't worry: u must understand, because since that version it includes settings menu & much more futures...
Official Site http://www.Project-Star****.tk, sorry but site support only russian language

[bierhuettl]

this new version is godlike.

[Diastereomere]

Hi Guys,

I also received The Fall - Last days of gaia and tried to trick that StarForce Protection with the mentioned Star***** program, but like bierhuettl already recognized is that the game always tries to install new drivers or claims that the CD-key is wrong... :(
I also tried to solve the program by unplugging my DVD-Drive manually like it was described in another forum, but it didn't work either...
So please describe precisely what you did to make it work on your PC??? I can speak German fluently and I am surely not that numb, but the ReadMe of Star****** doesn't make any sense to me... :confused:

Cya...Dias!

[bierhuettl]

Use the newest version, should work.

Remember that you must not have a system harddisk at a same ide cable where one of your optical drives that has to be deactivated is at.

[Diastereomere]

i guess that won't be a problem at all, because the only HDD is an SATA Drive and is as far as i know not controlled via IDE controllers... :D

[bierhuettl]

then use the newest beta you can get @ www.project-star****.tk, and it does everything automatically... set your number of drives in the settings (where they are at) and create a shortcut for the game, works perfectly. only one thing that does not work is the automatic mount of the image that you can set in the shortcut, but okay, who cares, mount it manually and it works.

oh i see that F U C K seems to be a forbidden word *lol* you know what to insert into the **** in the url there...

[Magnetic]

ok, got this now, does anybody if it works with obscure?

[MaPomme]

the cause it did not work was that i did not use MIR to shrink the game image to a mini image... with mini image it works perfectly!!

Please tell me what this MIR software is - and how to get it, if possible.

Thanks,

Ma Pomme

[bierhuettl]

MIR is a mini image ripper. but usually you can get mini images for every game at gamecopyworld. if you need MIR go to http://gf.wiretarget.com/safedisc.htm and d/l it there under safedisc tools

[MaPomme]

MIR is a mini image ripper. but usually you can get mini images for every game at gamecopyworld. if you need MIR go to http://gf.wiretarget.com/safedisc.htm and d/l it there under safedisc tools
I've something to tell you :

MERCI! THANKS! DANKE! GRACIAS!

MaPomme

[Meep]

Starf**k seems to have totally messed up my system.

Not only did my virtual disc for Scrapland not work with StarF**k, but after giving up on not using the CD to play Scrapland, none of my other disc images work at all.

NFSU2, Pirates!, FlatOut and others that I routinely run from my harddisk without using the CDRom now do not work with either Daemon Tools, or Alcohol where before running startf**k they worked perfectly.

I really don't know what happened, all I know is that this has totally ruined my ability to use my software with emulated disc drives. Yes I uninstalled and reinstalled alcohol and daemon tools several times. I have even run the StarForce driver remover tool. This has not seemed to help.

It must have been the Starf**k tool that caused this.
Can anyone offer any assistance in this regard?

Edited:
Just to clarify, programs that attempt to use CDs off the virtual drives now crash with error messages. This was not happening before running StarF**K.

Edited:
I also tried doing a System Restore from one day ago, and that has also not solved the problem.

[Morglum007]

Maybe a stupid question, but, have u tried to unpatch drives and to remove Blist from the tool?. Until u run again star****er to unpatch drives u will not be able to use ur drives, or mounting any image in any mounting program.
This is the first "serious" problem we encountered with the tool. Everyone everywhere is enjoining Starforce. We should check some things yet. Nothing is perfect. One more thing. have u upgraded any Starforce game before using the tool?. It is known SF is very fast when finding workarounds for its protection bypass.

morg

[Meep]

Just my luck that I am one with problem.

I can mount the CD-Rom images, and I can use my CD Rom drives.

But when I try to run one of these programs that use the Virtual cd rom drives, they crash.

I just tried running Scrapland to play, did not update any protections.

I removed primary IDE Channel and Secondary IDE CHannel and rebooted machine.

I can run HL2 from DVD drive no problem, same with Sims 2, X2 The Threat,Office 2003 install,Rise of Nations, Spell force..I have a lot of purchase games with original CDs that work.

The problem is once software like Need For Speed UNderground 2 tries to access the Virtual CD Rom, whether it is Alcohol 120% or Daemon Tools, these programs crash, no error message from program itself, just an Exception Error from Windows.

I can even read and install programs from the Mounted drives if I make CD Images, I just cannot then run the program from the hard disk, using the Mounted drive as a source for the CD-Rom.

It seems that in trying to get around StarForce protection, have found a perfect way to block people from using popular CD Emulation programs to run protected software from the Hard Disk? :cool:

What else could I try to fix this?

[krondike]

read the regedit fix for the protection to skip/not see the emulations program.

BUT try to reinstall Alcohol 120% and deamon. HAve just those 2 installed other emulation get coughted! Then do the regedit fix, search in the forum to find instructions..

[Meep]

Are you referring to switching the Read permissions to Deny to prevent software from discovering the PnP Bios Extension entry in the device manager?

That currently isn't set, so that's not the issue. The problem is that the programs actually crash with an Exception error when I try to run them. I've never had to use, nor did I know about, any registry manipulations to get these titles to run, and they did before.

[Meep]

Fixed it.

I reinstalled Direct X 9c and everything works fine.

Now I'm not sure whether this was a problem with StarF**K at all, but I'm not going to mess around with it again to find out.

Still a warning to those that might try the program, to be careful :)

Thanks much to those that tried to help.

Cheers.

[bierhuettl]

There are cracks out for many starforce games now, including the fall. you do not need SF here anymore

[Meep]

Ok, after backing up before installing SP2, I decided to test out starf**k and Scrapland just for the heck of it.

I don't know what happened the first time, but it works now.

Download the mini image from GCW (or make one yourself from your CD), run starf**k.
Select Patch blacklist, and disable CD Roms (Normal worked for me after entering my correct settings in Preferences).

Then just run Scrapland.

It should pick up the mini image from Daemon Tools and work just fine.

Put the cd in a safe place afterward :)

Hope this helps someone, and it certainly is a big pain getting games to run without the game CDs now.

If there were CD Jukebox type drives out there where you could rotate CDs (6 disc cd changer for the PC? ) I might even invest in one.

Too many games, too many game cds..too much switching in and out :( Although I do it with the Xbox, on the PC it just seems..different.

Here's hoping more games get distributed via services like Steam.

Cheers

[dedamraz]

Wow, it doesn't work. I've tried everything - editing registry, disabling cd drives, clicking on everything in Star****, making that "special" link, played with settings in Daemon tools and Alcohol, starting with scrap.exe and other things.
And every time it says - Insert disc 1 in another drive. (I tried to mount the image to D: and F:, it doesnt matter)

What else I can do? Where is the mistake? Please help me!!! I am totaly in **** I think.

(I am from Czech Rep., so my english is not so good)

[keeper2]

I downloaded d-day and installed it, after i mounted the mini image, and it works perfectly. It says the version of the game is v2.14. But, when i finished the 3. mission, the game crashes every time, on the same point. It must be a bug. I installed the patch v2.16, but since then, when starforce checks the same mini image, it waits 3 minutes, and after it says checking disk failed. I tried to reinstall windows, install the game, and before the first run install the patch, but the same happened. What's the problem? When i install a patch to a starforce protected game, have i get a new mini image? And then where can i find? 'cos everywhere, there's just there is the v1.0 version? (but it works with the v2.14 of the game)

[MaPomme]

When i install a patch to a starforce protected game, have i get a new mini image?
People of StarForce aren't absolut idiots, you know. They are browsing and reading the good sites, like GameCopyWorld and FileForums. They are reading us. They have downloaded and tested the mini-image, and when they are making a new patch...

Bonjour chez vous,
Ma Pomme

[keeper2]

People of StarForce aren't absolut idiots, you know. They are browsing and reading the good sites, like GameCopyWorld and FileForums. They are reading us. They have downloaded and tested the mini-image, and when they are making a new patch...

Bonjour chez vous,
Ma Pomme

Yes, yes, i thought, they wants to do against mini image, but, i read that starforce collects the data, what it needs frome the cd disk's surface, and it identifies wheather it is original or not. And the mini image contains this data... Then, if i have the original cd, and then install the patch, the data, what starforce needs are the same, because the original cd can't change. Then, the infos for starforce must be the same as in the mini image, or not?
Then the patch must recognise that you don't use the original cd, just a mini image.
And the second strange thing is, that the mini image is for the v1.0, and it works with the v2.14

[bierhuettl]

of course you can't let a game recognize a virtual drive as a mini-image, unless it has no built-in daemon tools protection or something like that... but without that original discs could not be recognized as original discs because images act like the same... except @ starforce protection.

[weston]

Been reading the forums and trying for days. Got working mini images on D. tools of Xpand rally and GTR with IDE disconnected but won't work with starf... tool. Anybody got it working with these or any ideas? It does hide the drives from "my computer" but not from starforce even though both drives are on the secondary channel.
Grateful for any ideas...

[bierhuettl]

did you also patch the drivers?

[weston]

Yes, I've tried doing this, before and after disabling the drives, but neither way seems to make any difference. The instructions in this thread seem to say press patch first!
The tool doesn't need service pack two does it? I've got two installations of XP pro on the C and D drives one with and one without SP2.
Is it possible for starforce to read across to the unactivated installation on the other drive as Starf... doesn't seem to be able to hide the drives at all on the non SP2 installation?
Thanks for ideas...

[keeper2]

Yes, I've tried doing this, before and after disabling the drives, but neither way seems to make any difference. The instructions in this thread seem to say press patch first!
The tool doesn't need service pack two does it? I've got two installations of XP pro on the C and D drives one with and one without SP2.
Is it possible for starforce to read across to the unactivated installation on the other drive as Starf... doesn't seem to be able to hide the drives at all on the non SP2 installation?
Thanks for ideas...

I do this as the follows: in the system properties, in the device drivers i click on forbid (maybe it has other word, 'cos my windows isn't english one) on all optical drive, so, there just be the virtual drive remains. after i start starf**ktool, and i choose secondary all cd agressive switched on ('cos optical drives are just on the secondary cable). A small window appear with an ok button. I LET it to be there, i DON'T click on ok. Now, i can play the game (just if the mini image is mounted).
But a strange thing: i tried it under virtual machine (vmware). I installed the same op. system, what i have, but the game don't start. It says, it can't start on that operating system (what is the same, which it works, just the virtual machine differs.

[weston]

Just tried your method but I still get the try putting GTR in another drive message. Thanks anyway.

[bierhuettl]

it does definitely NOT need xp+sp2, because I use win2000 ^^ indeed, you need 2000 or xp to use star****. who cares, cracks are out, use them instead of star****.

[weston]

Thanks for the advice. I'll try the cracks but I would like starf... to work out of curiosity.

[Bateman]

Is it really necessary to have your optical drive and hard disk on seperate IDE channels for starf**k to work properly?
Seeing as there is an option in starf**k to specify what channel your optical drive is on, i wouldnt have thought it would matter if they were both on the same channel. Just having trouble getting superpower2 version 1.3 working using starf**k

[Morglum007]

Is it really necessary to have your optical drive and hard disk on seperate IDE channels for starf**k to work properly?
Seeing as there is an option in starf**k to specify what channel your optical drive is on, i wouldnt have thought it would matter if they were both on the same channel. Just having trouble getting superpower2 version 1.3 working using starf**k

Unfortunately, Star****er doesn't work properly with multichannel drives. Unless S-ATA, Star****er will refuse to play any starforce game from mini.

Good luck!

[Babbba]

I have some problems by using starfu*k. I can deactivate my CD rom devices,all fine, but when I wanna start the fall, it's not working! Can s.o. describe me how to get it working step by step. I tried it this way. I mounted the image-> opened starf*ck->disabled my cdrom devices->patched Backlist->ran game->Starforce is checking->does not work->starforce is asking for a code. Can u help me out, I dont wanna use the crack, cause i wanna play the newest version 1.6

[Lethe25]

I have some problems by using starfu*k. I can deactivate my CD rom devices,all fine, but when I wanna start the fall, it's not working! Can s.o. describe me how to get it working step by step. I tried it this way. I mounted the image-> opened starf*ck->disabled my cdrom devices->patched Backlist->ran game->Starforce is checking->does not work->starforce is asking for a code. Can u help me out, I dont wanna use the crack, cause i wanna play the newest version 1.6

Got the same Prob. So i play 1.5 but its still to buggy. I think they worked out something new on this. Please someone find a asolution for this crappy star**** Problem! :confused:

[alban]

From dm_gammer from Star****-Forum:

Sorry for my English
This is only for version, that work with mini image!
In new starforce used new version ATAPI check. It work with many errors in Windows. And star**** now don't bypass this. And now, i tell how manuall do this without star****.
1. Disable all cd-rom from BIOS.
2. Run regedit.exe and found HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\S CSI
3. Than disable access for system for this. (For that click right mouse button and select from menu)
4. Run game and fun.
5. If you have a problem to access to device manager, return access for system back.

[Lethe25]

From dm_gammer from Star****-Forum:
:(

[keeper2]

From dm_gammer from Star****-Forum:

Yes, this way works. I disable the cd-dvd drives in the device driver, after, i disable every rights on the scsi key, after i start the statforce ****tool, and i can play with the games, but the problem is with point 5. when i go back to enable that key there isn't hkey local machines. Regedit just shows the hk local machines name, but it is empty. So i don't know now, how to enable it.

[DABhand]

Im taking a stab in the dark here, the reason you see no tree paths in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is probably that you may be set as limited user and not admin.

[keeper2]

Im taking a stab in the dark here, the reason you see no tree paths in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is probably that you may be set as limited user and not admin.

No, no. I hava admin rights here. And before this process, i can see that local machines branch perfectly, but, before i want to use a program which has new version starforce protection, i have to disable the cd-dvd drives, after i have to set full access permissions in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\S CSI to denied. (it is required for the newer version of starforce) (in thist state i can perfectly see all keys and branches in the local machine). After i start star****tool, and i play the game. But, when i quit from the game, and i want to set the full access permission back to the original (because in that state drive changes are very-very slow, and lot of programs freezes when i use it), but now i just can see the hk_local_machines as a key, and not as a branch, so, i can't go to ....\Enum\SCSI to set permissions back...
Maybee, if i have a program, which can set permissions, i can change it back (i think, like .reg files, which can add or change keys or branches, but i dont know, how can i change permissions...)

[keeper2]

By the way... Everybody says, that starforce is un-crackable, so, this is the reason, that we need to use the mini images. (ok, except the ultima-xpand rally, but they didn't crack it, they just wrote an installer, without starforce), but, i can see a lot of games which have starforce protection, and has crack for it, but some others just have the mini images. So, what's the truth? If somebody can crack the starforce games, than why some games don't have crack (like d-day, toca2...), but, if they can't crack it, than why i read from lot of games that has starforce protection, and i can download crack for it??????

[Morglum007]

Starforce is like a puzzle. Every game is different from another one. Some starforce tittles can be easily cracked, another can't.

I think this should close this topic.