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

Doesn't work anyway
 

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)

after patching the game, mini image don't works
 

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)

They are reading us !
 

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

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.

won't work for me..
 

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...

did you also patch the drivers?

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.

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

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****.

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

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!

Help
 

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:

From dm_gammer from Star****-Forum:

This did bot work for 1.6. Please someone find a solution for this crappy 1.6 prob!
 

:(

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.

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...)

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??????

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.