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Originally posted by Luciel
do u actually HAVE to unplug the drives phisicly or would it be enough to disable then from the hardware manager?

They need to be physically unplugged

Note, that unplugging the drives and doing the WMP9 trick are two different workarounds.

well i mean if u disabled them in the hdd manager technicly is as if they didnt exist so i dunno why should it make a diff

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i'll be damned.it worked.
i tried it with MP8 so same thing
afrika corps is playing.(version 1.0)
so the job is done like this(for those you are bored to read the article)

1.unplaggue all ide devices(cd roms)

2.start windows media player

3.load the image to your virtual drive(created by alcohol daemon tools etc)

4.play the game

i instaled the game from an image so it works fine installing from a copy

nonsense

@Luci:
unplugging all IDE Cd-roms is sufficient for a mounted SF3 backup to work.

The WMP trick is an attempt at REMOVING THAT ANNOYING REQUIREMENT.

If you remove all ide drives, then you don't need the wmp trick at-all.

The idea is NOT having to unplug IDE cdroms to run a backup.

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@Luciel:
Disabling is not enough. No ide cdroms should be detected by windows at boot-time. Therefore, they need to be physically unplugged.

Although I haven't verified this, I don't think that disabling is "as if they didn't exist", since you can most likely re-enable them with a few-clicks. So information about these drives is still present 'somewhere' that SF knows about.

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Originally posted by Luciel
well i mean if u disabled them in the hdd manager technicly is as if they didnt exist so i dunno why should it make a diff

Disabling the drives in device manager etc doesn't work. They need to be physically unplugged.
I'm not technically knowledgable on this topic but I believe sf3 uses it's own interface to access the optical drives

fair enough in any case i dont think its worth the struggle, by the way is painkiller sf3?

No, securom, thank god.

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by the way is painkiller sf3?

painkiller is safedisc 3.20.022 within a dll

good good, cos i just bought a copy and dont fancy going through all that strugge :D

well i tried to play a game using the unplaggue technique but didn't play..it still sais the cd needs verify.i tried it with breed.but you might be right cause neither with MP8 breed played.another user said that it worked...not to me

oh and i said i have MP8 not 9.maybe that's why bred wasn't playing...dunno man

For spanish version, Kill switch is Starforce 3.

And about that trick, we must test a lot yet.

Good luck!

kill.switch *german*
The Black Mirror *german*

These games don't work with both methods

Yepp, Black Mirror german dont work with this!!!

Thats Starforce3 f...!!!!

Think must wait for gamefix!!!!

mehlwurm.

There's only a working crack for the english und french version of Black Mirror
^^

work and work not

Yes, functions, however you have then no German acoustic output more with the discussions and the sub-titles are in English!!!
No large fun to play!!!
There I must probably still wait!!!
Unfortunate, the Adventure makes a good impression!!
Times which other one than Battlefield or unreal Tournament!!

thanks!!! greeting, mehlwurm.

sorry for my english.

English please! (read rules)