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king kong is a starforce protected game and im giving just king kong as an example it's the same thing for spc chaos theory and prince of persia the 2 thrones so pls helppppp

Prince of Persia T2T Starforce Protection
 

I have tried all methods
- Disabling CD/DVD in Device Manager
- Image in Alcohol/DT
- SFcure & SFNightmare
- Disabling IDE Secundary (dont know why my PC doesn't detect my IDE ATAPI/ATA like the Nforce ones that i've already seen in some posts)
- Using dif keys nothing works
My PC Config is
Intel P4 2.4ghz
motherboard asus p4s8x
2 drives: 1lgcdrw gce8481 / dvdlg
radeon 9600pro
2 hdd: westerndigital & seagate

Can some1 help me pls??????

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mz too i tried everything but i wanna ask how do you disable your primary ide drives because when i right click on it in the device manager there is just uninstall ? and i have a question when you disable ou ide drives the virtueal drives don't get disaabled so it always detect the cd , how do oyu want it to work if it can detect the cd ? thanks for answering me pls

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yeah i have the same problem i only can deactive the second ide the first and the third i only can Uninstall them grrr =S !!! some kind of drivers im missing???

It is not possible to deactivate IDE channel if your harddisk with windows on it is attached to this channel.If you have only optical drives connected to your IDE controller it is possible to deactivae it.

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how do i know if my hard disk is connected to the primay ide ?
and id the virtual hard drive thing works for you guys why it isn't working for others what do we do wrong ?
and a little question if you disable your ide drives your virtual drives that you are mounting the image are still not hidden so the star force protection will always detect the cd and thus the game won't work help pls

To check your hard disks, enter the BIOS setup or see Windows' Device Manager. As for virtual drives, as far as I remember, those are checked - along with all SCSI drives - only if at least one IDE drive is also present in the system. Also, Daemon Tools 4.x hides itself better than previous versions and there's no need to disconnect drives on motherboards with the nForce 3/4 chipset (confirmed by Daemon Tools developers).

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and another question they arer some starforce games that has been cracked like hammer and sickle why splintercell chaos theory king kong and pop the two thrones are not cracked yet ? can anybody answer pls

There are several levels of protection in Starforce. If you spend few money on the copy protection, the result will be lightly protected, thus easily cracked; more money, heavy protection, a year to crack.

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i don't understand by spending more money in copy protections you mean i need to buy some special stuff to crack the games ? what do i need to get to crack these games ?

No. If the publisher spends more money, a heavier version of Starforce is applied, which takes much-much more time to crack (for the crackers).

@ Kooka...
 

Yeah, asking questions brings knowledge...
But, spend some time in the forum here, so many q&a about starforce... And... For some it seems to be like a wheel of fortune if starforce backups will work...

Sometimes you´ll win, sometimes you´ll loose *g

Greetx

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come on guys crack star force already i think just those crackers doesnt spend enough time in it to find out how to crack it

@kooka: You're really getting on my nerves... If you're so damn smart that you think you can command professional crackers around, why don't you spend a few years with learning programming andf then the art of professional cracking and join them?! Otherwise, stop bitching and wait patiently - and in silence - for the results of their hard job...

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grrrr okay so i have to desactive them manually openning the machine......pc experts where are u?? cmon we need more easy way to pass by SF xp

okay so i have to open the pc and desactive them manually grrrr =S....!!! thx.....

I found by updating the starforce protection i got original game to run BUT! and its a big but in doing so it totally screwed up my com i had to remove all star force and reflash my dvd burner cos i could not even burn a simple disk or in fact any thing to burn could not use alcohol or nero.

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lucifur2k can you give a little guide how you did ?

Update/remove Starforce drivers: http://www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=91
Get original game to run: RTFM, contact publisher, read official game support forum.
Flash CD/DVD-ROM: Go to manufacturer's web site, search for firmware update for the type of your particular unit, download, RTFM.
Burn CD's/DVD's with Alcohol 120%/Nero: RTFM.
Anything else?

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yes what is RTFM ? and thank you

Find out what acronyms mean: http://www.acronymfinder.com

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can anybody make a mini image or a maxi image for king kong and prince of persia the two thrones that work pls

@kooka (or is it rather cuckoo?): You have been banned for two weeks for excessive bumping. Use this time to search around this forum (or the Web in general) and find answers to your general questions yourself, instead of asking them again and again and again and again...

I can bypass starforce but theyasking me to insert disc into another drive the press retry what does that mean???

that is not quite a bypass now is it?

Starforce found out that you're using an image, mounted into a virtual CD/DVD emulator, instead of a real CD/DVD in a real CD/DVD drive. Read the FAQ on ideas on how to circumvent this problem.

which FAQ I can see to solve my problem???

See the link in my signature.

i have seen and tried most of the stuff given in the faqs. i have tried VirtualDrive Pro and yet my PoP:T2T does not let me play without a cd.

Hi all
 

Hi all! i'm new here... i've got a question.. i hav prince of persia the two thrones... i tried the john's method to play it with virtualdrive pro, but i cant play it... it tell me to put the cd-rom into another drive...:( i'm happy if someone can explain me how to make it work...
bye...

you can contact me on my e-mail: ai3_3**********it

i follow all the insructions n the fist post, but when i finish, this appears:
http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/5...blem0hy.th.jpg

after reinstallation, the game still does not work

I found a definite way to bypass starforce 3.6+.

1. First, turn off your pc.
2. Remove cover and unplug power cable from all your CD-DVD ROM/Burners.
3. Turn on your computer.
4. Make sure the drivers for starforce are still installed, because if they are uninstalled, the game will not work.
5. Turn on Daemon Tools, enable one virtual drive, and mount your image.
6. Open the game and it will run.
7. After playing, turn off the computer, and plug the power cable back.
8. Turn on your computer, and voila, everything is back to normal.

**repeat steps 1-6 each time you play your game**

(none of that Nforce motherboard crap, I have an Intel IDE controller and this method works perfectly)

Hey guys i have a Asus A8N SLI Deluxe Motherboard, my NForce drivers are 6.70, i have 3 IDE drives: A DVD-RW drive, a CD-RW drive, and my 160 GB HDD. The RW's are hooked up to 1 IDE cable, and my HDD to another. I cant disable my Parallel Controller in Device Manager, btw its a NFROCE 4 chipset with a NForce Parallel Controller, why, cause it controlls both my primary and secondary channels. Now said this, I understand someone said that SF-Protected games should work on NForce 3/4 mobo's. Who ever said this Must be high on something. But thats just me. Anyways, im saying this because ive tried to play Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory, i DL the images from TorrentSpy, ive used SFNightMare so many times, ive done so many things ive given up on it. Ive also tried other SF games and nothing. So who ever is saying that SF games Version 3.4 like Splinter Cell should work on NF4 Mobo's is lying. Guys, please add this mobo to your list of NON WORKING MOBOS and also CRAPPY MOBOS. At first i thought this was a great buy, but after i had so many crashes, and bugs, im like screw it. Does anyone have a suggestion on a new mobo.

@m_malyszko
Read the forum rules!!
Have you actually tried putting your hand in your pocket, to get some cash, then going to the game store to purchase the game legally!!!!

Bye Bye your are now banned for a month! This should give you enough time to purchase the game, legally!!

...help....
 

Eh... first post here, but not the point.

I've been looking for a way of bypassing the StarForce software/virus, but with no luck.

Now, before you judge me and start thinking that I don't buy my games, youre probably right, at some points.
I do want to test the games befor I buy them, and that is what I do. But don't get me wrong! I do now own legally versions of almost all my games,
because of hard working labour. The only problem is that that includes some starforce games(manly SCCT). But I still want to be able to make playable backups of them,
because I have this paranoid thinking that what should i do when the original disc breaks.
So I tend to use it as little as possible, but then again that stops me from playing a perfectly good game, right??

Please guys, I need help! None of the backup disc's of SF games will run on my sys.

Motherboard: MSI KT4V-L
CPU: AMD AthlonXP 2600+ Thoroughbread
Ram: 2x Cosair ValueS 512MB 400MHz + 1x Cosair ??? 256MB 400MHz
GFX: ATI Radeon 9800PRO 128MB ALL-IN-WOUNDER
HDD: 1x Maxtor Diamond9 120GB, 1x Maxtor ?? 80GB, 1x Maxtor ?? 40GB + 1x IBM 40GB.
All HDD's are old ATA133.
(also I may need a bit help in getting the right bios for my MB, the ram only runs at PC2600, allthough it is PC3200 400MHz, any ideas??)

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I tryed it all
 

Hello

I did all the method and nothing works :( i did this method and i got this

and after reboot it said "insert disc into another drive the press retry"
after that i tryed this one:

and till nothing works and now it says:

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/8720/14fs.jpg

Why is this happening ? wired that some people got it running :(
(sorry for my bad english)

Thanks!

I like the fact you have a bookmark folder called warez :P And the torrents...
lol This time I won't judge anyone tho, do what you like. In the end I'll be blamed for blaming you... It isn't obvious enough, is it ?

Yeah!
UNDERSTAND the fuckin´ manual ;-D

Sorry 4 the bump

This means that your image is not good enough.Make new image witha alcohol 120% latest version setting DPM to high or just download better .mds file from www.copybase.ch and replace your current .mds file with the downloaded.Oh another reason to get this error may be the old version of the virtual drive you use.Try with the latest alcohol 120% or daemon tools before proceeding with the image file.

Is john486496's method confirmed working on a K8 (AMD) Mobo, so without Nforce? If not, is there another way to get the game (in my case: TOCA Race Driver3) to work without pulling my cabels out?