Can play Sims Hot date on my Sony CRX 140E
 

Hi,

I'm new to boards and I'm looking for help. I'm having such a hard time playing any new games on my Sony CRX 140E. I have firmware 1.0N and no New games like Max Payne or Sims Hot Date will play. They are ORIGINALS not even copies. They install fine but when I want to play them they just won't start. I tried these game on my Dell Laptop DVD-ROM and they work fine. I don't want to play these game on my laptop.Please someone help me? Do I need a new driver and where do I find it..
I'm sure it's that damn Safedisk 2 that's screwing things up. All the other software I have works fine I don't get this!!.

Thanks so much for anyone's help!!
ASH
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Yes, your last sentewnce is correct. Infact last new safedisc2 protected games have an ATIP code that recognizes if you are running a game from a reader (cdrom) or a burner. Up to now there's no solution on that (for what I personally know), but they'll run fine from a normal cd reader.

Hope that this can help.

Hi,

Thanks for responding! I just tested out the game as well on my Aopen 16x IDE DVd-ROM
And it won't work in there either. I'm so lost.

Any tips? Should I burn a copy? And then unsafedisc it? I want to play this but I don't want to have to buy another Cd-Rom.

Thanks!
ASH
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That's very strange....btw, check if your games run from a normal cdrom and if they do, consider the idea to get one...otherwise, one solution can be to burn a copy and unsafedisc it, as you said, or patch it with the one provided in GCW or at megagames (####://www.megagames.com).

Just unsafedisc it. I have the same drive as you and don't have that strange problem. What OS are you running?

Can't play Sims Hot date on my Sony CRX 140E
 

I'm Running Windows ME....
I'm pulling my hair out here....I'm so stuck.

I think the only way is to unsafedisc.