Starforce 3 and Soldiers - Heroes of World War II

[Jameshuden]

I have read on here over the last few weeks about Soldiers - Heroes of World War II and the fact that no one can get a back up copy of their original CD to work because of Starforce 3. I downloaded the Demo and I bought the game when It came out. The question I have Is can you not use the Demo to learn how to get the full version to run without the CD?? The Demo does not ask for a CD or a CD Key and I know Demos never ask for this. Why can't you change the Demo exe and soliders.dll file to work with the full version?? I know both files were changed In the full version so why can't It be changed again?
I am new at this and I don't know how to do It but I just want to know If maybe It Is possible since so many people are trying to get a No CD for this game??

[Sidney]

You can do that, you just end up with the demo though.

[Jameshuden]

Thank you for the reply but I was not talking about switching the files, I was taking about opening and finding In the Demo exe or the soldiers.dll file how to turn off the CD check and CD Key check In the Full Verison exe or soldiers.dll file which ever file controls that..

[ByteMare]

Good luck, I think you have some deep reverse-engineering coming up

[Jameshuden]

I was looking around on codemasters fourm and I found this-

Soldiers using Starforce Copy protection - hidden device drivers

I looked around here and It has not been talked about that I could find.. So Here's what I Found:

* Starforce is an extremely aggressive method of copy protection that actually works at the hardware level of your PC.

* It installs device drivers WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE or CONSENT.

* these device drivers are HIDDEN from normal view. They can be displayed by opening Device Manager, and clicking on "View" and then on "Show Hidden Devices"

* Even DEMOS install Starforce! as if there could be ANY possible reason for copy protecting a DEMO.

* Removal of the full game or demo that installed the drivers DOES NOT REMOVE THE STARFORCE DEVICE DRIVERS.

* important: manual removal of the device drivers can result in severe system problems. Some users have reported having to fully format and reinstall their OS, others have reported that their CD drives no longer read certain CD's after removal. DO NOT ATTEMPT MANUAL REMOVAL..

If you want to read the whole post go here-

Starforce Copy Protection discussion

[ByteMare]

Old news

[fatpaul]

my first post .

k first of all i used alcohol 120% 1.9.2 to make the image using the Starforce option 1/2/3,then after making the image i used Blindwrite 5.2.2 to burn the image using default profile.after buring the cd i tryed it and it worked fine detect the cd and the cd-key thingy and then i was in the game and i even tryed on my friend pc worked like a charm. anyways thats it enjoy .

[BaumDoktor]

Originally Posted by fatpaul

my first post .

k first of all i used alcohol 120% 1.9.2 to make the image using the Starforce option 1/2/3,then after making the image i used Blindwrite 5.2.2 to burn the image using default profile.after buring the cd i tryed it and it worked fine detect the cd and the cd-key thingy and then i was in the game and i even tryed on my friend pc worked like a charm. anyways thats it enjoy .

i can confirm that worked 4 me too (although not with every media i tryed) there is a 100% method but this would involve changing the image file wich im not capable of doing (or telling u where to get this modification course of the board rules) - yust wanted to tell ya it's indeed possible to backup
btw: (funny thing is my backup starts FASTER than my original lol)

[Jameshuden]

Does anyone not care that this game Installs hidden drivers behind your back?? I love the game.. Between this and Battlefield I am In heaven but I don't like having things Installed on my system without my permission or knowledge.. Does anyone know what these drivers do??

[fatpaul]

Originally Posted by BaumDoktor

i can confirm that worked 4 me too (although not with every media i tryed) there is a 100% method but this would involve changing the image file wich im not capable of doing (or telling u where to get this modification course of the board rules) - yust wanted to tell ya it's indeed possible to backup
btw: (funny thing is my backup starts FASTER than my original lol)

yeah sorry i forgot to say i used TDK cd-r and plextor dvdwriter.
that game rules man its bad!

[KOKOtm]

Originally Posted by fatpaul

my first post .

k first of all i used alcohol 120% 1.9.2 to make the image using the Starforce option 1/2/3,then after making the image i used Blindwrite 5.2.2 to burn the image using default profile.after buring the cd i tryed it and it worked fine detect the cd and the cd-key thingy and then i was in the game and i even tryed on my friend pc worked like a charm. anyways thats it enjoy .

Also confirmed. I have tried the alcohol images from emule. Worked with blindwrite.

GSA-4120b writer, TDK-cdr. Worked faster than my original too

[gav_69]

i installed the game form the original cds, and entereed the serial number, i followed all the steps that you done burned image with alcohol and then useed blindwrite, but when i try to run it with burned cd keeps telling me serial key does not match disc, do you know how i can delete the serial from the registry

[Elektro]

Originally Posted by fatpaul

my first post .

k first of all i used alcohol 120% 1.9.2 to make the image using the Starforce option 1/2/3,then after making the image i used Blindwrite 5.2.2 to burn the image using default profile.after buring the cd i tryed it and it worked fine detect the cd and the cd-key thingy and then i was in the game and i even tryed on my friend pc worked like a charm. anyways thats it enjoy .

Hi

First of all, Im spanish so sorry about my english .

Can you explain what is "Starforce option 1/2/3?". There is an option of alcohol 120 program?. In this chase: Is in version 1.4.7 (that i have) also this option?. Otherwise, if "Starforce option 1/2/3" is not an option of Alcohol 120...what is so?.

Thanks

[bob90210]

okay, have burned the disc off alcohol, after installing it already (obviously) then tried to use it and it is going to check the disc and then it says 'no disc'.
also tried starforceclean but didn't help. after i reset after running starforceclean it said 'installation complete' and all that was needing a reset. so i reset, after the reboot, it looks for the disc all over again and says disc not there, or if i just use alcohol and the virtual drive it says incorrect disc.

Any hints?

[masteruser]

How to make working copy of "Soldiers"? Is StarForce3 beaten?