The cracked Securom 7 exe will work for you, i think.

So I install the game, then remove StarForce, and then use the cracked Securom 7 .exe file? I just wonder if having StarForce installed at all, even if just temporarily, might not be a good idea?

I found this old thread: http://ww1.fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=83819

One guy said you can follow these steps to play a SF protected game without having SF on your system:
Then Joe Forster replied:
So that makes it sound like as long as you uninstall SF before it activates, then your system is safe.

But then why did Joe Forster say the following in this thread:
That makes it sound like having SF on your system, even if you uninstall it before it activates, is not a good idea. This is all very confusing.

You're mixing up the games: Pac-Man World 2 is protected by Starforce and has not been cracked ever since its release; Pac-Man World 3 was :p protected by SecuROM and has already been cracked. (By "cracked", I mean: clean no-CD/DVD patch released.)

OK, so for Pac-Man World 2, the following steps won't work, even though there is a No-CD patch available?


And then for Pac-Man World 3, I was wondering if there might have also been a version of PMW3 released with StarForce instead of Securom 7. Because I just checked my PMW3 disc, and I saw a file named Data1.cab, and inside the .cab file I saw files named protect.x64, protect.exe, and protect.dll. I did a google search and those files are supposed to be StarForce files. Pac-Man World 3 is also on this list of StarForce games:

http://groups.google.com/group/boyco...web/games-list

No, for PMW2 there is no no-DVD patch, only the images, so the instructions qeuoted do not apply to it. As for PMW3, no idea, I just had a look at the top of GCW's page.

OK, thanks Joe.

So even if my version of PMW3 has StarForce instead of Securom 7, I can still use the quoted instructions to play it without fear of any possible damage to my computer. (And after removing StarForce and using the No-CD patch, it will be as if I had the Securom 7 version of PMW3. :)) I hope I got that right, correct me if I'm wrong.

It may or may not work. If the Starforce version has some of the data files and the SecuROM version has none then replacing the game executable with the cracked, originally SecuROM-protected, one won't be able to read the encrypted data files. And, as PMW2, a non-mainstream game, was so heavily protected, you can expect dirty things in PMW3, too.

I just installed PMW3, and I confirmed it uses StarForce.

But I can't even tell if the PMA_W32_M.EXE crack works or not, because the main "Pac-Man World 3.exe" file crashes whenever I run it. I get this error:

Not sure what's going on there, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and got the same error. I think I'll try buying another copy of the game, and hope I get the Securom version instead.

I just got the European version of Pac-Man World 3, and it does not have StarForce! :) So only the US version of Pac-Man World 3 has StarForce.

And I guess ALL versions of Pac-Man World 2 have StarForce. :(

I heard Namco is going to release a Pac-Man Pizza Parlor game soon... they better not use StarForce!