UFO Afterlight

[luck555]

Hello i am trying the solution fo poseden, i mount the image with dm 4.08 and i use yasu, but when i launch the game with the executable of game i got a 1000 error topic of securerom, any idea?

[GabriellTheArchangel]

same here,maybe any1 succeeded to backup the original?if yes any method will be appreciated.

[luck555]

i suppose that we must wait till the crack is out

btw gabriell if u get some crack or fix it, tell me how ;)

[DABhand]

Whats the game like luck555? In what ways is it similar to Aftershock?

[luck555]

Whats the game like luck555? In what ways is it similar to Aftershock?

well i played a bit, when i got working, and looks very nice u can check here some pics http://www.ufo-afterlight.com/

[HellasVagabond]

I suggest you ALL retype what you have typed cause we have 2 people that will propably BAN you. Just a friendly reminder :)

PS : Backing Up aint a problem....Making it work is :)

[DABhand]

Dont help the people out.


But one just admitted a naughty thing, its great catching people out :P

[GabriellTheArchangel]

.......................%*$@!#^*$ only thing needed to reply...ur a lost cause..must have a hard childhood,by ur style i don't wonder why!!!!Dont help the people out.
BTW i tought the only reason we r all here is to help eachother!now the big question is what are you doing here if ur not intending to do it?and what the hell r u trying to do here except "catching ppl"?why r u trying to put words in hes mouth?creep
and for u Luck after all, right now i didnt found anything that working,but u can make a backup for ur cd with this tutorial,tryed it,its working http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=144003

[poseden]

Do you see the nfo

" 4> Use Alcohol 120% make image from the virtual drive, now run the Game at once."

Run the game when Alcohol 120% begin making image, not wait making image over


BWT:sometimes i only use Alcohol 120% & yasu, the game worked

[luck555]

Do you see the nfo

" 4> Use Alcohol 120% make image from the virtual drive, now run the Game at once."

Run the game when Alcohol 120% begin making image, not wait making image over


BWT:sometimes i only use Alcohol 120% & yasu, the game worked

i did like said u nfo, but still, i get error 1000, perhaps its for the image of backup

[poseden]

I found sth

After i installed Supreme Commander, i can play UFO afterlight only with yasu+DT4.08+maxi-image.

[GabriellTheArchangel]

As i see you trying to shoot out secrum with not giving him any sys resources?Its a good idea,but if u got a good comp its not gonna work i think

[luck555]

yeah my comp si good, so when i do the image and launch the game, still the error

[KampferZeon]

Hi,

Reduced UFO.exe Priority From High to Normal, when doing the copy files method seems to improve the success rate

[TippeX]

copy files method?

[GabriellTheArchangel]

well seems u r all desperate...just wait for the proper crack...

[DABhand]

.......................%*$@!#^*$ only thing needed to reply...ur a lost cause..must have a hard childhood,by ur style i don't wonder why!!!!BTW i tought the only reason we r all here is to help eachother!now the big question is what are you doing here if ur not intending to do it?and what the hell r u trying to do here except "catching ppl"?why r u trying to put words in hes mouth?creep
and for u Luck after all, right now i didnt found anything that working,but u can make a backup for ur cd with this tutorial,tryed it,its working http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=144003


Perhaps you should calm yourself down there kid.

And read the rules and see why I said not to help them out.

[GabriellTheArchangel]

My point was,if u don't have something useful to say then don't say anything kiddo!

[DABhand]

I think others would disagree.

You have only been really here a short time, and only really active recently.

But yet you act like you have been here for years. Or that you own the place.


AGAIN

Read the rules.

When someone comes in and doesnt give information on much only they are trying things, they are dubious and this forum doesnt help warez users.

So they are caught out, and he was.

"well i played a bit, when i got working"

If he had the original there would be a high percentage chance it would be working, but since he was talking about a mini-image to play the game which he eventually got working, he was a warez user.

And you continued to help him. Which isnt much liked here. Neither is flaming someone.

[Joe Forster/STA]

People, stop flaming each other...!

[JoeBobBoe]

Can someone help me with the instructions listed on gamecopyworld for using the mini-image. I mount the image with the newest DT, and then run YASU. But i'm not sure what the instruction want me to do with the image and Alcohol 120%.

It says, "Use Alcohol 120% to make an image from the virtual drive, now run the Game at once."

From which virtual drive? The one from DT? Or a new one using Alcohol? I've tried it different ways but I can't get it to work. Can someone please explain how it works for them? Thanks

[fxingworkdamit]

Okay, this is a little complicated. I don't know what combination of stuff works but... here we go... Hopefully you don't have to spend 6 hrs plus getting it to work...

1: Update SPTD 1.39 (included in latest DT) to 1.40, (Don't know if this even matters as I had it working ONCE before this)

2: Mount the Maxi-image with DT (Daemon Tools) I think you can with Alcohol too but as I said, this is what works for me.

3: Use YASU (latest)

4: Open Alcohol 120%, at the top left hand there is a button to make an image. Many believe this to be a form of loading down the virtual drive. Make the image of the drive with the Maxi-image mounted, any name, just get it to start.

5: almost immediately after step 4, run the game normally.
It might take 2 or 3 tries but it should work. Afterward you can cancel the image by alt-ctrl-delete. It doesn't matter if you let it go though, you can just delete it later.

I hope this works, might take a bit of tweaking, and I find multitasking with Afterlight can cause it to crash after a bit. ( though I haven't played enough to figure it out completely. ) Looks like a good game though. Last UFO I played was Apoc. It was awesome while it lasted.

[DABhand]

4: Open Alcohol 120%, at the top left hand there is a button to make an image. Many believe this to be a form of loading down the virtual drive. Make the image of the drive with the Maxi-image mounted, any name, just get it to start.


Why make another image of an image, surely the original is better to make with.

[fxingworkdamit]

[QUOTE=fxingworkdamit;336820] any name, just get it to start.

5: almost immediately after step 4, run the game normally.
It might take 2 or 3 tries but it should work. Afterward you can cancel the image by alt-ctrl-delete. It doesn't matter if you let it go though, you can just delete it later.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. The image being made is important, it's a strange thing I've never heard of till now. From what I understand the securom version isn't bypassable yet. Even with the newest version of load securom, it still didn't work for me, but this did. The file copy method is similar in that the virtual drive is loaded down and somehow (damned if I know why) it just lets it go, either because the verification timed out, or magic elves make it this way, I dunno.

The image itself isn't important, but the fact that the image is being made while securom is verifying IS. Hope this helps. I'll be back if not.

[JoeBobBoe]

Thanks for the help. I tried it several times, but still couldn't get it to work. Am I doomed to have to wait for the no cd crack?

[MrPFox]

First off. I might be new, but spamming a thread with complaints that are nothing to do with the thread, is utterly annoying. Grow up or have someone delete those comments. :confused: (Thats primarily directed at Gabriel)

Bought a copy of the game a few days ago, slight struggle to get it going as my DVD drive decided to die so I tried an image from another PC. I finally managed to get it going by just messing about with procyon,asr,Yasu pr0n.stop and anything I could get my hands on. Random chance got it working for one evening... This morning it was buggered again. (I mean the "insert the original disc instead of a back-up (1000)" error)

Scoured the net for hours to find a solution until I read "fxingworkdamit"'s post....WELL DONE! :D It worked, took ages to load up but it did work.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Procyon is the new name of SecuROM Loader (read the forum FAQ and see GCW's CD hider utilities page) as well as one of the brightest stars on the sky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procyon).

[GabriellTheArchangel]

ok..
Guyz,i got 1,and its not including copy methods then pray ,and run around with vodoo dolls so maybe u can get this thing working.
Simply replace the exe with the 1 from the demo,i've tried it on my two comps,its working on both(1intell 1amd) so its not supposed to make any problems,but there is 1 little tinny catch,the ten day limit from demo stays...hope it helped a few ppl out

[JoeBobBoe]

Wait, i'm confused. Is procyon just the newest version of securom that is listed at GCW? Cuz that version is 6 months old. Anyone have a link to the newest version?

[fxingworkdamit]

Sorry it doesn't work for everyone. Also good idea with the demo .exe. I never thought of that.

[JoeBobBoe]

Yah, the demo.exe loads the game. Great find. But, I gets various error messages at different times -- though it does seem to work overall. Just the ten day limit isn't fun

[DABhand]

My only suggestion for you guys is to continue using your original for now, until a more workable solution is found.

[TippeX]

Wait, i'm confused. Is procyon just the newest version of securom that is listed at GCW? Cuz that version is 6 months old. Anyone have a link to the newest version?

procyon loader is simply a modified asr (anti securom loader), they deserve no credit, as its a simple binary patch, and the code was technically 'stolen', now in their nfo's they state to use the 'tools provided', with their latest releases that has been yasu 1.07, so yeh procyon loader is out of date, daemon tools people made a new version of asr, which i haven't tested, you could try that but it seems most people are happier using yasu, and curerom seems dead in the water too...

[GabriellTheArchangel]

the 10 day can be skipped easily,once in 10 days modify the registry...easier then every time start to try making the image maker magic of 'em:)

[TippeX]

modify the registry? any more info on that?

[GabriellTheArchangel]

nope not really i don't think i'm really capable of doing it,u on the other hands got more skills...:) only need to remove the 10 day limit from the exe,then it's working as a full crack

[TippeX]

but u said it could be moved easily.... i thought from that you actually tried it..
and yeh i could do it , but im a good boy now... have to be sadly

[dajunka]

THIS WORKS
First mount image with DT, then run YASU, now copy "Dat3.cab" from image to desktop, while Dat3.cab is copying wait about 3 seconds, then click play. This seems to work for everyone. :)
Afterwards just delete Dat3.cab from desktop.

You should only have to do this once, after that UFO al will run everytime without the copying of the Dat3.bat.
Dont ask me why it works but it does.

[raven_g20]

can any1 upload the demo .exe somewhere?? downloading the huge demo is time waisting...many thnx

[GabriellTheArchangel]

sure,just tell me where 2 send it,its 11.8 mb BTW the only error i saw,when u r exiting,and this is fine with me:)

[yurakli]

sure,just tell me where 2 send it,its 11.8 mb BTW the only error i saw,when u r exiting,and this is fine with me:)

Could you send me demo.exe to yurakli********com , please.
Thank you!

[raven_g20]

thnx m8...can u send it @ raven.g20********com ? or upload to rapidshare...whatever u like..thnx! ;)

[geokou72]

thnx m8...can u send it @ raven.g20********com ? or upload to rapidshare...whatever u like..thnx! ;)

Αν σου στελεις το demo στειλτο κ σε εμενα geokou72a********gr

Thanks

[JoeBobBoe]

dajunka,

I got it to work for the first time using your method! Yah! I'd thought I'd tried it that way before, but I didn't do something right. This time it works. thanks

[Joe Forster/STA]

@geokou72: English, please! (Forum rule #5.) For native language messages, use PM or E-mail instead.

[TippeX]

weird, guess the file copying throws off the signature timings....

[GabriellTheArchangel]

ok guyz,heres the exe link,enjoy


http://rapidshare.com/files/16758370/UFO.exe.html

[luck555]

bah, its seems dont work the image, waiting for a new patch of fix

[GabriellTheArchangel]

????????????????

[EDman]

this exe is the one from the demo right ??? now i got full game with demo exe wtf !??!?!?!

[EDman]

the game starts with a mission ???? no intro no base or something ???

[raven_g20]

actually the trick with the cab file worked..altough its a small hassle...its ok...with the demo .exe turns out i get all sorts of graphic artifacts errors or whatever..its messed up the screen...so i guess ill just play with original disc til crack comes out...thnx though for the uploading of the exe file "GabriellTheArchangel"...it was worth a try..

[dajunka]

It is only a small hassle because you only seem to have to do it once per computer reset.

[MrPFox]

Have discovered one tiny problem though....For some reason it likes to crash whenever it tries to load a certain mission. Always complaining about the mod_gamedata_scenes_2.vfs file and a file within it. Same file everytime. I tried the repair utility on the setup but it never seems to fix it. Anyone know a way to take apart the vfs files? And with a working "mine_01_save_0.bin" from it? :(

[fxingworkdamit]

Just a quick note, the burning method is essentially the same as the copy method. If copying doesn't work, chances are you have a faster hard-drive/mo-bo. Sometimes it doesn't work with me, but I also notice people complaining it doesn't work after restarts, because your computer has much free'd up cpu slices.

I'm gonna try the demo.exe tho, thank you very much for the link.
I hate relying on shakey stuff, it's such a pain to rely on original disks.

[Monster3d]

There is no such file "Data3.cab"

[raven_g20]

There is no such file "Data3.cab"

lol?!? U sure u are talking about the same game? :)

btw about the demo exe...it works now for some strange reason but all the time during the game it quits to the main menu telling you that its a limited demo etc etc...so u have to save a lot! :)

[MrPFox]

Tired the demo plan, it wouldnt let me continue a game, which is bit of a problem. And for anyone who didnt know, when you hit "new game" its meant to start in tactical mode. (Meant to free the scientists).
Finding the image making fairly successful, other then that file error. Which only occurs if I defend a territory, so I cnt defend it....Annoying!

[Monster3d]

lol?!? U sure u are talking about the same game? :)

btw about the demo exe...it works now for some strange reason but all the time during the game it quits to the main menu telling you that its a limited demo etc etc...so u have to save a lot! :)

i think so cause he wrote this in the ufo thread

THIS WORKS
First mount image with DT, then run YASU, now copy "Dat3.cab" from image to desktop, while Dat3.cab is copying wait about 3 seconds, then click play. This seems to work for everyone. :)
Afterwards just delete Dat3.cab from desktop.

You should only have to do this once, after that UFO al will run everytime without the copying of the Dat3.bat.
Dont ask me why it works but it does.

[wolfsrain]

Update your DT4.08 SPTD driver at the latest version. It works fine with poseden mini-maxi image. Also you need the latest version of YASU(1.07)
Link for the driver: http://www.duplexsecure.com/en/downloads.
Have fun. I know I have.
P.S.:for some people, they'll have to try twice. If it says that it couldn't read the disk, hit retry. For me works from the first time, but for a friend of mine he has to hit the retry button, as explained in poseden's image nfo file.

[dajunka]

Update your DT4.08 SPTD driver at the latest version. It works fine with poseden mini-maxi image. Also you need the latest version of YASU(1.07)
Link for the driver: http://www.duplexsecure.com/en/downloads.
Have fun. I know I have.
P.S.:for some people, they'll have to try twice. If it says that it couldn't read the disk, hit retry. For me works from the first time, but for a friend of mine he has to hit the retry button, as explained in poseden's image nfo file.

This dosent work for me, even with the new SPTD

[MrPFox]

Interesting. The image making tactic really does work, it prevents secuROM detecting the originality of the mount as its being used. Though a medium to fast PC will have enough processing power to do both. I suggest you lag your PC down as it loads up.....Wouldnt work on mine til I did. (aka, Image making, WMplayer, MSN, task manager and even considered a quick virus scan) Everything went slow, but the second the screen goes black, cancel everything and your off!

[wolfsrain]

This dosent work for me, even with the new SPTD

If you get the error message, hit try again button, once or twice(that seems to vary from a PC to another). For me starts right away, but a friend of mine had that problem and he did as poseden specified in his nfo file(hitting retry 2-3 times). Also you nedd YASU 1.07 active.

[fxingworkdamit]

Funny thing, I think I read it on EDITED, but I think I can confirm this.
again, I have no proof or record of why or how, or even that this works other than my own experience and one other person I had read.

Install Supreme Commander, and Yasu, + image from original disk will work no problem, every time, no messing around. I don't know why, people can say this is bull, but I'm telling ya...

This is the best thing I've seen yet for this game.

[wolfsrain]

Funny thing, I think I read it on EDITED, but I think I can confirm this.
again, I have no proof or record of why or how, or even that this works other than my own experience and one other person I had read.

Install Supreme Commander, and Yasu, + image from original disk will work no problem, every time, no messing around. I don't know why, people can say this is bull, but I'm telling ya...

This is the best thing I've seen yet for this game.
Did you bothered reading the name of the thread? Supreme Commander isn't a issue. A crack is available on this site for the game(you didn't checked even that, though you are posting in the GCW forums).
This thread is about UFO Afterlight.
P.S.: I wasn't aware that a legit copy of Supreme Commander would contain a image and YASU. And the mention of EDITED can only lead to one conclusion: you've downloaded the game and you are in for the banishment award.

[celt67]

Interesting. The image making tactic really does work, it prevents secuROM detecting the originality of the mount as its being used. Though a medium to fast PC will have enough processing power to do both. I suggest you lag your PC down as it loads up.....Wouldnt work on mine til I did. (aka, Image making, WMplayer, MSN, task manager and even considered a quick virus scan) Everything went slow, but the second the screen goes black, cancel everything and your off!

I had the same problem till I set the priority for UFO Aftermath to low in Windows Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del) ;)

[celt67]

I had the same problem till I set the priority for UFO Aftermath to low in Windows Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del) ;)

And by UFO Aftermath I obvioulsy mean Afterlight! (doh!)

[fxingworkdamit]

First off I was talking about Afterlight, secondly, there IS a Supreme Commander Demo available, thirdly, just because I read something somewhere has no bearing on where I obtain my software.

This is in the right topic, if you look back I've responded here multiple times. As for the mention of said place, I will not do that again.

[Grumpy]

@wolfsrain
Lets not jump to conclusions please!

Yes 'fxingworkdamit' did mention a warez site, which is frowned upon here, but that doesnt mean he got the game from there.
I too have visited warez sites to find out how different people go about getting different games to work without needing the disc in the drive.
Some warez forums can actually be quite educational.

By pasting fxingworkdamit's post into your own post you actually mentioned the warez site twice!!

Should I now ban you for twice as long as fxingworkdamit?? ;)

Install Supreme Commander, and Yasu, + image from original disk will work no problem,
Where in the above quote does it say Yasu was on the disc?
If he did download it then he would not have an original disc!
The '+ image' comment can mean "+ create an image of the original disc".
No where does it say the image is on the disc? ;)

Please dont accuse other members of pirating when you really are not sure what they have done.

[fxingworkdamit]

TY Grumpy, obviously your name does you no justice.

[Grumpy]

obviously your name does you no justice.

:D

Grumpy by name but not by nature. (Well not all the time anyway) :p

Mind you some would disagree. ;)

[neliz]

I tried all methods mentioned above and only ONE worked for me!

It is: Set priority to Low in the task manager for UFO.EXE
If you do it too soon, you'll get a notice that it's not allowed, immediatly do it again and UFO Afterlight starts.

Hurah! celt67 is *TEH HER0ES!*

(edit: so far the success rate is 1 in 5 .. it beats popping the dvd back and forth between my pc and laptop.

[Argail]

heya,

i used the above methods, but unfortunately i can t seem to get past the #1 problem. I mount the posedon image with daemon tools and activate yasu. But it always says problem with emulation software detected even after yasu says, that all the drives have been hidden.

Its really weird. Any ideas there?

[fxingworkdamit]

Any emulation options turned on in Daemon Tools? I believe they should all be off. Also, I know this sounds dumb and you probably have it, the newest version of both DT and YASU?

Also maybe any other emulation software should probably be inactive, or at least disabled, again you probably don't have that happening, so I will take a look to see what might be happening to ya.

[Argail]

hi fxing. Thanks for the fast answer. I have yasu 1.07. newest alcohol and daemon tools versions including the driver upgrade. What i just noticed though is, that when i start the game, while it loads the cd rom symbol doesn t appear while it checks. Oh and no, no options in DT are activated.

edit:
ummm.... i think the problem is a little bigger than what i expected. I just put in my original to play till you can come up with something :D
started the game: error message: conflict with emulation software detected...
did i just break my pc or something?
:(

[Grumpy]

@Argail
did i just break my pc or something?
No, you just have a software program installed which is conflicting with the protection on the game.
The only way to find out which program is causing the conflict is by uninstalling them one at a time then trying to start the game again by using the original game disc.

Uninstall programs like Alcohol, Daemon, CloneCD, AnyDVD etc. (basically any burning or emulation program.)
You will eventually find the cause. ;)

[Argail]

I only have alcohol and daemon tools on there i think. I ll search around. But if i uninstall those, i won t be able to play ufo without cd. On the other hand, now i m not able to play it at all. Decisions Decisions :D

[DABhand]

Uninstalling those things will allow you to play the game first off. So that looks like the only way for you.

Unless you didnt know about the other programs that can help hide Daemon Tools. Read the FAQ.

[BJ_RedCat]

THIS WORKS
First mount image with DT, then run YASU, now copy "Dat3.cab" from image to desktop, while Dat3.cab is copying wait about 3 seconds, then click play. This seems to work for everyone. :)
Afterwards just delete Dat3.cab from desktop.

You should only have to do this once, after that UFO al will run everytime without the copying of the Dat3.bat.
Dont ask me why it works but it does.

Thanks for this great method, but for me it did not work everytime. I had to retry it quite often sometimes before the game started. Then I figured, that the timeout for the validation is about one minute.

WHAT I FOUND OUT:
You can delay the check by copying one, two or even three files simultaniously from the mounted image. If I stop the copying after about 50 Seconds it will always (100%) let me in.
Usually I copy two files, stop the first after 50 seconds and the second file after about 55 sec. But that depends on system performance i guess.

[Grumpy]

@Argail
My suggestions were only for you to be able to first get the game working using by your original disc to play.

Once you have established that you can again install each program to find out the best method to get the game to work 'without' using the original disc to play.

[Argail]

@Grumpy:

Thanks for your help. Uninstalled everything then reinstalled alcohol + DT + driver update.

Now i can play with original again, but the method with daemon tools and making an image with alcohol doesnt work. Error 1000 don t use backup disc. Is it normal that i cannot access the drive with poseden image? It says damage or not readable. Tried to copy data files from a backup disc i made, and doing an image, and without backup disc and just imaging. I get a timeout at first then click retry and then it always gives the error. As far as i could tell i was doing it correct so far?

[Stevi]

Crack is out finally...

[Argail]

Crack is out finally...

Care to elaborate? :D

looked on megagames and gcw, didn t see anything.

[wolfsrain]

Submitted. Hatred released the crack finally.
http://rapidshare.com/files/17453189/UFO_Afterlight_No-CD_crack_Hatred.rar.html
Here is a temporary link until is up on the sites.

[theslig]

I don't understand, with the crack the game went upside down for me (the bottom become the top)

or can I fix it please?

[erlijus]

On Vista, the crack crashes seconds after launch... Anyone having the same problem?

[DABhand]

LOL


The crack works for me. No upside down nonsense :P


Perhaps the warez version thats going about isnt the Gold Release. Which is why people are having upside down screenies. Oh what a shame lol

[Joe Forster/STA]

Or a buggy, not-the-absolutely-very-latest video driver?

[DABhand]

No dont give them hope! lol

[neliz]

Afterlight gives absolutely no problems with the crack here either.
It's probably a driver issue.. nVidia card maybe? :D

[wolfsrain]

I have an Nvidia card with the latest drivers. Works fine for me...

[theslig]

I've just notice: at the title screnn I see v1.4 ( on the bottom left; top right for me)