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Originally Posted by TippeX
give me one good reason why i should give u the benefit from my research
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You chose to post in this thread. My point is that your posting in it to say a working copy can be made while providing absolutely no details on how to do it is worthless.
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vague assertions they are not
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You need to consult a dictionary for a definition of the word "vague." The fact that you provided no details to backup your assertions makes them so.
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Originally Posted by Morglum007
"its the driver thats detecting the image is 'virtual'"
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You are talking about running the image virtually, and I am talking about a copy burned onto CD writeable media. Technically a working copy of a game on CD writeable media should play in a read-only media drive in the same way that the original CD-ROM would. The only way that the Starforce driver could tell the difference is if the encryption key or other information it needs from the game media is simply not present on the copy.
With Safedisc, SecuROM, and even Tages, such a working copy can be made on CD writeable media. My experience and understanding with StarForce 3 is that a working copy on CD writeable media cannot be made. You quote seems to imply that hacking the Starforce driver would make a copy of the game functional, but that is still a hack/process which requires something more than duplicating the original media onto CD writeable media.
So, technically I suppose that someone wanting to make a crack for a StarForce game could use a clone image of the CD-ROM IF he knew how to properly modify the StarForce driver too. It would be easier to simply use the original CD-ROM to launch the game though to eliminate this extra work in creating the crack.