Hello, lads,
I had installed SH3 from the mds / mdf image of the game, mds is the karlmueller's version. This image resides on a haddisk on an external drive, which is connected via USB. The game installed perfectly, upgraded, disabled my lone cd (whic is primary slave), mounted the image at external drive,
and voila!

the game will certainly work, but since i have used the mds of karlmueller, my serial number is rejected! I can test it (and will %99percent succeed), if he could PM me the EMEA version!
Try USB connections, friends, you will prevail!
And Karl, I hope you will read this post and help me
By guys!!