It doesnt?

Are we talking about the same image? :P

Works for me, all you do is

Goto mount image, when selecting the image change the file types to all and mount the .mir image

it will work

I can mount the image with demon-tools with all emulation options enabled, but when I launch the game I get the "wrond disc inserted" error message.

So it would be great if you could say us what are your specific settings, or just tell us how to use Anti-Blaxx.

Anti-Blaxx has numerous tutorials on its on site I do believe :)

ok, I've download it and read the (tiny) help file.
I've tried it with demon-tools 3.47 changing the default name for the scsi port and it didn't work.
I've tried it with latest alcohol 120% (v1.9.5b2802) and it didn't work too.

So, wft ?

PS : now i got a virtual cd which is permanently present after uninstall of all this softs and a reboot, so THANKS A LOT !!!

Hey not my problem your too dumb to figure it out!

Instead of being sarcastic to me, seing as I cant be here 24/7 and type out lines of text to help everyone. I tried to help you get it running from your backup.

Now you can set Anti-Blaxx to not run on startup if you bothered to change settings.

Also You cant run the game with both Alcohol and Daemon Virtual drives on at same time.

Disable alcohol if you want, keep daemon running. When you mount the backup image, enable the emulation on daemon and close the program and keep all emulation running when asked to do so.

Now load up anti-blaxx, tell it what protection you want to use and point to the game exe and give the setting a name, then run the game via anti-blaxx.

It should run.

It is that easy.

Again dont start bawling and shouting at me for trying to help you. Not my fault you cant understand how to work it. Is that what you people do all the time, someone recommends something you fire it on and you go mad cause you cant work it? Did you even sit and try to work it out? No?

If this is all too much, there is a no-dvd on the GCW.

he you think I'm sarcastic ? Do you really know what that word means...

Your last answer was sarcastic... I'm not a newbie. I'm in the party for 10 years now. I've already done all you said before (and before you said it in your last answer !) as I wrote in my last post and the fact is : it doesn't work. That's all. I know there's a no-DVD, but I don't like no-DVD. And I confirm that now, with demon and alcohol and anti-blaxx uninstalled, there is still a virtual dvd-reader and I can't remove it (and now that's my problem n°1 !).

@frisk
Hmmm, I fail to see how Dabhand was sarcastic? Whereas your 'THANKS A LOT' comment was definately being sarcastic! The advice/help you were given was fair advice? It wasnt sarcasm?
Re-install which ever program created the virtual drive, then you should be able to remove it, then if you want you can uninstall the program again if you dont really want it.

Allready done, but it doesn't work. The virtual drive name is "Generic..." so I think it's the demon-tools one.

And you were right finally, last DABhand answer wasn't sarcastic, it was arrogant and insulting.

@frisk
?? You have lost me?? :confused: Cant please everyone all the time! :rolleyes:

generic can also be alcohol, not surprising cos it and daemon tools are close, and you say when mounted in alcohol you got the 'wrong disk inserted' message and not the emulation detected msg?, i'd also suggest that you and dabhand stop the pissing contest as its really achieving nothing for either of you

No, alcohol virtual drive default name is AXV CD/DVD-ROM.
Anyway, I finally managed to remove it.
And yes, the error message is "wrong disc inserted", not "emulation detected".
(I'm using the french DVD version of GTA SA).

You reap what you sow.

I offered advice you took the anti-blaxx option, I didnt bend your arm backwards to install it.

Besides I have not had any problems installing and uninstalling anti-blaxx.

Therefore it must be something else.

You were sarcastic with your THANKS A LOT, which made me respond the way I did.

I even went as far as offered more advice, if you think thats insulting then more fool you.

I've been reading through all the posts in this thread but couldn't find an answere to my question. If there is one it would be very kind of you to tell me where to look. thx.
I got the german version of Gta SA and I am using the Hoodlum crack for ALL.
It's been working completely fine for a week. (No problems at all) yesterday eve I played (mission where u gotta save sweet under the brigde and where u are then taken by Tenpenny and u gotta destroy some evidence and take photos of it. First time u can get out of Los Santos I think). I went to grove street and saved, quit the game n watched some dvd on my pc. Today I wanted to start the game as I do always and it simply doesn't start. It seems as if it's trying to (that little sandclock of Windows appears for a short time) but doesn't do nething more. I've been trying all day to fix it without any results. (reboot, reinstalling the crack, so on n so on) might this "Crash fix patch" additional to the crack work?
I got no Idea, thx if u can help me
G-Dorion

did you say you tried it without the crack and it still didnt work?

I have a US version of GTA SA, used hoodlum crack and everything works great. I decided to install one of those adapter on my pc usb to use the ps2 controller. Well the game wouldn't start after that, I couldn't for the life of me figure out why, well after much hair pullings I just disconnect the usb ps2 controller and it started again....the problem can be reproduce everytime. Hope this info might help other peoples out.

I've read the board rules ( look at the 7th ) : No flaming or insulting other board members. I don't see "forbidden to be sarcastic" :D . Now when you say that "I'm too dumb" I think it's insulting, isn't it ? And I don't know what "fool" means exactly ( maybe because I'm too dumb ) but it sounds insulting too... I've read a lot of posts from you on this board, and what I saw is that you like when people get banned for breaking a rule so why don't you report this ?

And before I get banned ;) , I think there's a localization issue with the mini-image : it works with US version of GTA SA, not with the FRENCH one... as said before, I get a "wrong disc inserted" message, not an "emulation detected" message.

frisk, back down, it looks like you are going out of your way to cause a fight, and if you want banned it probably will happen, its either that or a language barrier, but you are achieving nothing with your bitching

@ tbaher
of course it works with org .exe and the org DVD, but I can't use the crack anymore!!!! Which I'd prefer!

I wouldnt have said that if not for your derogatory comment in the post before it.

As I said you reap what you sow.

what mini image?

@tbaher
There are 3 mini images available at GCW, or did you mean to say 'which' mini image? ;)

I will have to admit ignorance on this one ;)

ok this is my first time here but i read thru this thread trying to figure out my problem.

i have solved it. i found out that if u install the game from the dvd then try and crack it it wont work.

this is wut i did to fix it.

copy dvd onto the hard drive. (example D:\GTA SA\)

install from drive to location u like

rename gta sa.exe to gta sa.exebak(so u dont lose original)

extract cracked gta sa.exe into installed folder

and there u go. worked for me.

whats up fellas,
i bought the cd and was very happy with the game until my wife got P!$$ed off and scratched it up. ( I have a pic if anyone wants to see) Anyways, the game is installed on my system but it won't run without the cd. so i read thru the whole post and did what you guys suggested. After i replace the original GTA_SA.EXE file with hlm-gtasa.rar and try to run the game all that happens is a small DOS window opens up for about 1 second and than nothing happens. i wrote rockstar games to see if they could help me out but its been over a week and no reply. is there anything i could do or am i SOL.
thanks

hopefully im wrong but u didnt just rename the .rar file did u.

u dont just rename the .rar file to .exe u have to extract the gta_sa.exe from within the .rar file

isntallation problems
 

Problema...
Tengo problemas al instalar la version de HOODLUM, he hecho lo siguiente..., escomprimi el archivo a una carpeta, monte la imagen, ejecute el intalardor, seleccione el instalador y cuando esta comenzando a instalar me surge el siguiente error... error de transferencia de componente. Componente: Disk 1. Grupo de archivos Disk 1 - Disk1 files(2). Archivo: G:\setup.isn. Error: error interno, aca les dejo una cap para q lo vean mejor. http://www.montevideofc.com.ar/espanol/problema.htm
He probado intalarlo con el anti-blaxx y m da el mismo problema, por favor alguien ayudemeeeeeee

how do i extract the gta_sa.exe from within the .rar file?

down load the trial version of winrar from
http://www.rarlabs.com/rar/wrar342.exe

install winrar.

this will let you open the rar file just as you would a zip file. then just rename the original gta_sa.exe file in the installed folder to gta_sa.exebak. now drag the file out of the rar file and drop it into the installed folder.

no have fun playing.

thanks guys, i just did what you said and it worked. i only went thru the begining credits and checked if my saved game was still there. i hopefuly i wont run into any problems. thanks a lot.

Help!
 

Ok So I'm simply having the same issues as everyone else... My Original Game is no where to be found, we just moved and it got lost somewhere in the move. Fortunately I had copied all the files. So here is what I've done:

1. Installed the game
2. Mounted Crack image (.mir) from GCW to Virtual Drive using Alcohol 120
3. Replaced .exe file with GCW crack (I have tried all the .exe cracks that GCW has and none of them worked)
4. Did not work, uninstalled tried again
5. Repeat Step 4
6. Repeat Step 4

I did get lucky once when I used the all language .exe crack, I clicked the .exe and it looked like it was going to come up for 1 sec and then it dissappeared... So with the frustration I kept clicking it and for some reason the game came up! I was happy... I went to save the game after the first mission and the game crashed. I have no idea what to do so if you have any advice I would really appreciate it. I know it can work cause it always did with the disc. PLEASE GIVE ME SOME ADVICE!!!!

Also I have be reading all the.nfo files and trying to follow there directions to the best of my ability, a few confused me (like the savegame fix), but I'm pretty sure I did everything right.

System Specs:
AMD Athlon 2800+ 64 bit processor
768 MB of RAM
ATI Radeon 2600 Pro 256 MB
Soundblaster Audio Card
160 GB of HDD Space
I have a DVD Burner but it will not burn anything for some reason...

Thanks again

Great Idea Grumpy. I didnt know you could do that. I'll do that from now on. So check it out. I went to teh properties of the .exe file and changed the windows format to Windows 2000 and it worked! BUT but but but... There is really no sound (voices) and after my first save my mouse would not move so I couldnt change the camera angle... any ideas?

try this and see if it works. u cant use the virtual drive. extract the files into a folder then instal from there. should work

Yeah I still got the audio problems. I did exactly what you did.

did u try doing a custom instal and make sure to install the extra audio files?

if not try that.

@Tango87
lol, your welcome, I actually posted that advice by mistake! I accidently opened up the first page of this post instead of the last, so I was actually answering the last post on the first page. lol
Therefore once I realized my error I deleted my post. It was only up for a coulple of seconds. Hmmm, now I wonder, do I leave people guessing as to what we are talking about? :D
The advice I gave was only about how I back up the original game files before overwriting them with the cracked ones. ;)

Yeah we get confused sometimes grumpy. It still worked. I backup up my orig .exe file. I fixed the sound too!! Woo hoo! soemone earlier in this thread requested to go to run and enter "dxdiag" and change sound to basic and it worked! About time! I miss this game! Thanks guys! anyone else who has problems should cointact me I think Ive fgured it all out!

Gah..
 

Hey there, you guys must be getting real bored of whining noobs like me! Sorry.. but I have been having problems with SA (Aint that a suprise) and this is entirely down to the Nocd. Err.. I have the EU version I would guess from the readme languages.. and the fact i brought it in the EU (smart, huh?) But due to some unfortunate circumstances.. I now have a 4 year olds attempt at art on my GTA CD. As you can imagine, the disk does not work anymore, so I have tried the nocd option. Basically.. ive tried about.. 6 different ones, including the all languages one, and they all come up with the standard "GTA SA.exe has encountered an error and must now close" kinda vibe. The program does not even start.. I would be vaugly relieved if i even got a white screen or something. Please, I have these sodding nocd-cracks coming out my ass..

I have no DVD writer, so cant just make a fresh one. Is there some way prehaps i could use the virtual drive on Alcohol?

you need an copy of the dvd. even if its just an image of it on ur computer. i havent been able to get the no-cd cracks to work unless you install from ur harddrive instead of the dvd. also the game can recognize if ur useing an imulator(virtual) drive. it wont let you use them. if u can get ahold of the dvd image then just instal from ur harddrive and then use the crack.

hope this helps in some way.

How Could u tel me wat to do guys i dl the gta sa and i clicked on it after instaled it stilll says plz insert the disc dl the crack frm HOOldum plz help me guyz