I agree to what you say IF the ban aint permanent.
Anyways do you have any insides on my problem ? :P

Doesnt matter though if you agree or not.

If they dont read rules they are given a short time off, if they persist or are confrontational from the start then the permanent ban comes out.

But Grumpy is doing what he is here to do keep order and make sure the forum is clean from any warez references.


Other than that, the game can be used with a mini-image which you can easily make yourself. And make sure you have the 1.2 patch which increases the performance between game and protection.

Or play with your original.


But since youve had those problems, you can go direct to the developers and publishers and see what is going on.

And remember to remove anything like Daemon Tools etc from running in the memory, or it will detect them.

And also even if the protection fails the 2nd part, the game still runs. But badly.

The publisher is at a lost so a no-dvd is the only solution here and i aint talking about just an image file.
As for the first part i know what Grumpy is doing and im just teasing him about the bans hes been doing for the past years and he knows it :)

So with 1.2 mini images work? Do i have to use any other emulation options?

The reason I said with 1.2 as thats the latest patch, it doesnt make the mini-image work any better or worse.

Theres no way to run the 1.2 beta with an image or mini-image.

possible solution with tetris
 

hi all,

ProtectionID_v5.1e for the darkstar one eng. version states tages basic protection. I guess tetris 1.1 summer will emulate it..?

Could produce a tdf file from original..? i am sure it will work.

You are wrong. It can.


I am playing it with a mini-image.

The only way i know is with virtual cd hide and that wont work with x64 versions of windows.
Any other way ?

Then you have a problem.


Look up a couple of posts, there is one way of doing it.

If you know how just say it and i will try..
Tetris 1.1, is that the way you are refering to ?

Yes since its Tages.

But you can also just use a mini-image made by A120% slow speeds and for a few tracks.

problems
 

Hey, I've read this forum, but I couldn't get any answer to my question that I had, so now I'm asking you...

Please, do you know how to make DarkStar One stop doing these nasty things like 0 prices (dropping when buying rockets), nav screen shaking and some other (like no hyperspace to the next sector) with the crack?

I tried almost everything, but the only thing I got ase the prices 10-times...:(

DABHAND tetris doesnt work on x64 systems.....
Any other thoughts ?

@Mar-Gec-Al: This thread is exactly about this problem so read it through. Also, there's a similar thread at the official support forum; read that, too.

yes....
 

yes it is, tetris 1.1 (i still do have athlon xp x32), so if someone could produce a tdf file from original, it could work. I can´t as i was trying out the game borrowed from a friend.

greets

In the future buy the game. Its the forum rules ;)

The way things are going i wish i could give the game back.
Anyways i can only pray for an No-DVD.

Well you should have done what I did, dual booted one x32 the other x64. best of both worlds :P

And btw, x64 isnt supported with DSO.

Theres not a single game that has Windows XP x64 written on the box as supported so that doesnt impress me.

a new Darkstar one crack fix just hit the net, it says it is reloaded, but I am not sure of it's authenticity. I will test it out and report back here.

The developers have quoted that the game will not support x64 anyways in any form.

Correct it is working.


But I cant seem to upload any binary data at the moment, my ISP seems to be acting weird. Will upload to GCW when I get the chance.

yes appearantly it uses ppf-o-matic to patch the image, keeping ALL english features and still fooling the game to think it is german (I know this cause I crashed and got the german report screen). I don't know where GCW stands on ppf files, but this very format is also used in mods for halo. So far it has worked splendid with me, working with my own image of the game, and it fixed the high prices. Question that stands now is will it work with a mini image?. Currently I am just happy to be able to play the game.

The PPF file can only be used on the pirated ISO image of the game so there's no point in uploading that to GCW... ;) Upload the proper no-CD EXE instead.

In case you can't download it, here's that fix: http://rapidshare.de/files/30516854/...ar_One_Fix.rar.

Sorry about that, my version did not have a working nfo so I had to guess what was what.. yea I don't even know if the ppf worked on my image, cause the new crack was really a crack.. hehe well at least we got it cleared up ;)

Are the persons in RELOADED dumb ??? We need an 1.2 beta no-dvd not an 1.01 one !

Not everyone supports beta patches; e.g. GCW doesn't either. ;) (Also, don't call the Reloaded team dumb when you're using the results of their hard work for free!)

They probably just wanted to fix their old crack before moving on to a new version (if they are even considering cracking 1.2)

And whats stopping people making their own similar ISO's? Besides it was the exe I got :P


There was also a 2nd crack-fix, but thats about 110mb.

Here is the exe

-Its already at GCW so its removed-

Joe why should they fix an 1.01 no-dvd when that version has problems ??
Doesnt make sense...
And from what ive heard teams like Reloaded get paid but just not from us :)

@DABhand: Hasn't the PPF fix been fixing problems with the cracked files on the Reloaded image? If so, the same fix won't work with the image of an original CD/DVD!

@HellasVagabond: Fixing (propering) a crack keeps the "cracker scene point" at the team. If they let some other team proper their crack, they lose their "cracker scene point" and lose reputation... ;) Also, I don't care if a cracker team gets money from someone but if we use their cracks for free then who are we to complain about the quality?!

Wish I got paid for making trainers.


They dont get paid, its a hobby to them.

DAB trust me when i say they get paid just like every STRONG cracking Team out there. Like i said we dont pay them , other people do but since they do i dont think the "Free" term applies here.

Yeah, and they don't get paid if the crack doesn't work... ;) Blablabla... For us, it is still free, so don't complain.

I would like to know what source you found says they do lol

So far I haven't come across a (real) cracking team (not games in general, mainly SnD and similar stuff) that gets paid for anything.
I have seen that there are teams that get paid for hours, you can buy their skills so to say. And that's heavily illegal, if RE will be paid, that's like killing ppl for money, hardly the same, but the concept isnt very different :)
Those teams are no real teams anyway, I think that's a totally different scene ;)

actually its pretty common knowledge that the cracking teams (at least the game iso ones) DO make money from dodgy sources... mostly its from dodgy asians (not trying to be racist or stereo typical.. im talking from first hand experience) buying cracks and iso's before the games were even released on the inet etc (pre-pre's).. as for the money making the way to the crackers, thats another story.. i know of some in other teams who got free laptops and hardware for their 'job' and others who got nothing, and did the cracking for the fun of it (and then got totally screwed in the process when the 'heat' came)... people DO make money from piracy, thats a common fact, from your street corner seller, your friend who burns copies for his mates at $5 or whatever, right the way up to the asians pressing silver cd's/dvd's and selling them as legit...

and erm, isnt this going off topic? :)