Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Trilogy
 

Hi,

I recently bought the PoP:SoT Trilogy and installed the discs. The games work with using the original discs and the various fixed exes from GCW (most anyway).

I've also found that by mounting a regular iso of the discs works too. However that's a little inefficient as that's about 8 GB to accomplish the task.

I realize I could probably use a tool to make a mini-image of the discs and use something like daemon tools, but does anyone know of updated fixed exes specifically for this release? I'd hate to get into the games and have crashes from incompatibilities with the fixed exes for earlier releases.

Has anyone already used the earlier fixed exes with this release of the trilogy?

Thanks for reading this.

The trilogy IS NOT updated in any way compared to the original release 'cept the PoP SoT launcher patch available from UBI site. BUT not that it matters since it's not the launcher that contains the protection.

Do we have a chance here for an uncensored version of "The Two Thrones" that does not contain Starforce?

The version that I bought from Steam was the censored European version.

Ah. Do you know if the same DRM is present? I used PID and it didn't find StarForce in The Two Thrones.

Probably because UBI has withdrawn from inputting the SF protection in their titles. Then again it is still PoP T2T 1.0, so... try what is available at GCW :)

Earlier this year, I bought the Sands of time trilogy, I can tell you that it has been released as a Ubisoft budget label called Exclusives, and they have removed the starforce protection on Two Thrones, so all three games is only protected by a simple disc check.
Now, what really annoys me is that because I live in the EU this pack is censored :( I bought this as I hoped that I finally would be able to play Two Thrones uncensored without starforce but no! :(

There is working patch available for this. But posting link for working patch against Tos of this forum.. :mad:

really? why?

Nice to know, just ordered a copy and will check the US version to see if that is also the case with it. Crossing my fingers, since while I already own the first two games I haven't purchased TTT because of the protection. Dieing to play it finally! :D

I just got the set in the mail and installed all 3 DVDs, no protections came up on the game discs or the folders with ProtectionID. I also ran the Starforce Removal Tool and it said there are no drivers on my PC...

While, I haven't played any of the games yet, I did launch them to the main menu so it looks good. :)

Can you confirm if Two Thrones is uncensored?

what do you say or know that has been censored ? why would europe censor anything in a pop game ? you mean violence/blood ? what ???

German versions of action games usually have reduced / removed blood and gore.

so even then it may be germany not europe, eh ?
other then germany europe doesn't censor.

Believe me I know about two thrones being censored in the Eu because Germany is part of the EU and because I have played the EU version. I have also played the US version and that's the only one that is uncensored (beheadings, blood and cutting limbs off), but I want the US version without Starforce protection and that's only possible if you get hold of the prince of persia trilogy released in 2009 in the US, and that's easy enough if you are US customer. You just buy it for 10$ at amazon.com but us eu citizens can buy it from the US branch of that store so we are basically fucked unless somebody is selling it on ebay.
I apologize for the harsh language but I'm pretty upset about the so called free trading as it seems that it doesn't apply to you and me (the private customer) :mad:

I got mine at Amazon.com for less than $9, also got free shipping since I ordered HAWX along with it. All in all, the first 2 games seem to match the original US releases though noticed one of the early cutscenes (the first after the first boss fight on the boat) on Warrior Within had some weird graphical glitches for a second or two I don't recall on my CD copy of the game...

I haven't played T2T yet, though I'd hope it's uncensored. BTW I can post again if you like once I start playing the third game in a few days! :)

EDIT: BTW, I just checked the cutscene with RADTools and had to use another program to extract them to the desktop to view the file, but whatever is causing the compression artifacts for those couple of seconds was not on the file itself. Call me confused! Perhaps it's because this is a widescreen monitor, but not using a widesceen resolution? Oh well, hopefully the rest will play fine regardless! ;)

I don't know what's up with you cutscenes, but I would really appreciate if you will report back on the Two Thrones Censorship issue (it's pretty easy to know if it's uncensored, if you can chop heads and limbs off it's uncensored and btw. in the Censored version it looks really stupid when nothing get's chopped off as the prince is still able to do those moves.

Ps. I tried to buy it on Amazon.com for 9.99$ but to my surprise they won't deal with me because I'm Danish (Amazon tells me to go the uk site, but they don't have the us version).
So much for free trading for private customers....

It's only one of the cutscenes so far and it works perfectly playing the file itself, regardless, I will checkout T2T today...

EDIT: I just played a bit of the first area and there's plenty of blood, but haven't notice any decapitations yet. If I see them later when I come back after finishing Warrior Within, I'll let you know though.

AFAIK, the exe is what contains the censoring. There was a big hoopla when Reloaded released the original nocd and it was found to censor the USA version. So, it should be possible for someone to make a nocd out of the USA trilogy version of T2T and then every version would be able to be played uncensored.

I agree, but making such an .exe file isn't exactly as easy as baking a cake, so I'm not gonna get my hopes up :(

If it really is just a simple CD check, then it is almost as easy as baking a cake when compared to trying to remove something like Starforce. Unfortunately, I don't have any baking skills, either. So, let's hope someone that does take up the project.

Anyway, I am over an hour into the game and no decaps, must be censored then...

Crap O' Crap! Oh Well, it was to good to be true :)

A good way to know for sure is to do a weapon steal. When the enemy turns gold (meaning almost dead), do a jump over (button 4), then weapon steal (button 5). In the uncensored version, you get a decap. In the censored version, the enemy falls over in an unconvincing manner.

Any update on this? I'm thinking of getting this package too, but I want to know if you can get it uncensored first...

I never got any decaps, so I am guessing no! :(

Crap. :-(