I want to play without my original Disk, plz Razor1911, we luv u if you give us an no DVD Crack =)))

So here is what works for me everytime.

1. Installed VC latest Edition Demo
2. With VC converted my ANNO.mds image to an VC image
3. Got 4 files anno.000, anno.001 anno.002 anno.vc4
4. Delete anno.vc4 and replace it with the one from the mini image. Rename it to anno.vc4
5. Install 2 virtual drives, one drive enable sharing with your 1st physical drive.
6. Mount the image on the lone virtual drive (drag an drop in the VC Manager)--->Please insert Disk Message appears.
7. Dismount image and drag it onto your shared virtual drive.
8. Play!

@ Razor666: What exactly do you mean by
"5. Install 2 virtual drives, one drive enable sharing with your 1st physical drive."?
Where are those options to make a virtual drive "share" with 1st physical drive?
Or do you just mean one virtual drive and one physical drive that can be used as virtual drive?

What u have to do for 100% working is:

1) Mount it on ur virtual drive
2) Wait for autorun
3) Click play
4) In that second the Game is actualy starting ( but u are still in windows ),
u give the command to mount it on phyisical drive
5) now u wont get "put original cd in"-message but the startingscreen of anno

it should work for u 2

have fun

Doesn't work for me either...
This new Tages copy protection seems to be one potent son of a ...uhm...copy protection...
This is how that thingy works...unfortunately I only got it in German...

"TAGES™

Der Kopierschutz generell arbeitet mehrschichtig. Ein Teil des Kopierschutzes ist auf der CD/DVD verankert (na no na ned ) und arbeitet dort mittels Umgangssprachlich "Twin Sectors" genannten System. Der Name sagt es schon teilweise es gibt mehrere Sektoren doppelt auf der CD die aber an verschiedenen Plätzen und mit verschiedenen Daten gespeichert sind.

Der Zweite Teil liegt in den hier umstrittenen installierten Treiber/"Rootkits"/Malware (zur Namensgebung später mehr). Wenn die Exe fürs Programm (Games sind auch Programme) gestartet wird schickt der im System verankerte Treiber Anfragen an das CD Laufwerk und fragt die vorhin beschriebenen Twin Sektoren ab. Wo die Sektoren liegen müssen auf der CD, ist im Teiber und der Exe verschlüsselt zueinander hinterlegt. Der Teiber weiss nun also das er den Sektor 123456, welcher 2mal vorhanden ist auf der CD, überprüfen muss um festzustellen ob es die Original CD ist. Weiters weiss der Treiber das der fragliche Sektor im Bereich 111111-130000 liegen muss. Was der Treiber nun tut ist das er das CD Laufwerk anweist den Sektor 111111 zu lesen um gleich anschliessend den Sektor 123456 zu suchen. Da das CD Laufwerk von "Vorne/unten" kommend den Sektor 123456 sucht und schliesslich auf findet bekommt der Treiber Datensatz A geliefert. Der Treiber speichert sich dies mal und schickt das CD Laufwerk auf den Sektor 130000. Danach gleich retour zu den Sektor 123456. Da das CD Laufwerk nun von hinten kommt und auch einen Sektor 123456 findet aber eben den Twin Sektor liefert er dem Treiber Datensatz B retour. Treiber vergleicht und sieht das die Anfragen unterschiedlich sind ergo Twin Sektor gefunden ergo Original CD und gibt das Programm frei."

The File is unmountable!

What file, what CD emulator, what error message?!

Hi all,

guess I have the same problem as -104- does. The image from gamecopyworld (anno1701.vc6) is not mountable. I use Virtual CD 8.0.0.4 and when I want to mount the GCW Image, it gives me the following message:

http://home.arcor.de/flippmann/image_error.jpg

"Fehler beim Einlegen/Auswerfen" (Error when inserting/ejecting CD)
Grund: Datendatei konnte nicht geöffnet werden (Reason: Datafile could not be opened)

Anybody who can help me out here?

just read some pages before and u will find an answer

My thgouht
 

I think it is the best if we close this post because we only get answers that it doesnt work.

Greetings from Germany

most of the answers work...

Well, thanks for this comment, Mr. Smart Ass. Anybody whith some more helpful remarks?

@ droidking: sorry for calling you names, but seriously: good for you that the answers worked for you; however, there are people who did follow the instructions and it still does not work.

All this only proves that these solution are "shaky": they work on some people's PC and don't work on others'. Well, hopefully, some "stable" solutions will be developed in the future. Until then, please, don't get mad, be patient,and try to not break your originals within those few weeks...! ;)

Well its been working fine for me, I am using winmizer to hide the window when im not playing. The other night though the power went out and reset my computer, second try I was back in... and before I was having a hell of a time.

To make it clear, when you rename your vc6, its best to do it in command prompt... heres a quick rundown of the way to get it to work

- Make your vcd (this has been covered over and over again in previous posts)
- Download the file from GCW
- Open start > run > "cmd"
- When the dos prompt opens using the 'cd' command move to your vcd folder and use the rename command to rename your file to vc4 (IN WINDOWS U WONT BE ABLE TO DO THIS THE ONLY WAY IVE FOUND TO DO THIS HAS BEEN CMD PROMPT!)
- Then mount into a virtual drive, run and exit when it asks for cd
- Then remount inyour physical drive and play.

But, today may be the last day of messing with this cause im going to buy the game... Its fun but the whole german language barrier thing is really pissing me off.

@King9072
So, what you have just told us is you dont have a purchased version of the game! You only have a warezed German version!!

I can take it you have not even read the Forum Rules!
Cya!

Banned!