Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Trilogy

[deoren]

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.

[WaltonSimons]

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.

[deoren]

Originally Posted by WaltonSimons

The trilogy IS NOT updated in any way compared to the original release

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

[Mason]

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.

[WaltonSimons]

Probably because UBI has withdrawn from inputting the SF protection in their titles.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

[silhouette]

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!

[sabbey]

Originally Posted by silhouette

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!

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!

[selvamcbe]

Originally Posted by deoren

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.

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

[TippeX]

really? why?

[Cowsheep]

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

[Tojosu]

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

[silhouette]

Originally Posted by Tojosu

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)

[sabbey]

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!

[silhouette]

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....

Originally Posted by sabbey

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!

[sabbey]

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.