Lame NoCD Cracks !

[k1rr3d]

Wassup with these lame mini-image NoCD cracks ????

Check this out, the LameNoCD crack i've got for D-Day actually requires you to open up your box and pull out the IDE cables from your CD/DVD drives, mount the lame image in Alcohol and then reboot your machine.

Hucking Fell , in who's mind is that more convenient than simply finding the original CD and popping it into your CD/DVD drive ?

The only people who could possibly find a LameNoCD crack useful are people who don't own/have the original game CD, you know who you are!

Thank <insert your holy deity here> for DEVIANCE, HOODLUM, gimpsRus, Razor1911, BATTERY, Reloaded, EVO, MYTH, Class and all the other REAL crackers not mentioned by name, who know how to get the job done properly.

Now, with that said, Does anyone know where I could get my grubby paws on a real NoCD crack for D-Day, you know, the "overwrite the original game.exe" kind of crack.


Thanks,
k!rr3D

[JoyBoy]

Spoken like a champ. You have to pretty desperate to open up your box and pull cables out of holes in order to play a game. Anyways, I guess D-Day is protected with Starforce which is why there is not a proper crack for it.

[Thomas_Moore]

stfu k1rr3d?

[Grumpy]

The only people who could possibly find a LameNoCD crack useful are people who don't own/have the original game CD, you know who you are!

Now I've been saying this all along for a few months now!

If those people had the original they could quite easily make their own Mini Images as you can only make them from the originals! Cant be made from a copy!

[Luciel]

Make ur research and ull find out there is no "propper" no-cd as its starforce.

[k1rr3d]

stfu k1rr3d?

stfu ???

Make ur research and ull find out there is no "propper" no-cd as its starforce.

What's so special about Starforce that no-one can crack it properly ? and if it can't be cracked properly, does this mean all games will start using it ?

By using starforce the publishers/developers are actually only hurting their customers, i.e. people who have the original disks and find using the mini-image crack to be more cumbersome than using the original disk. The main group of people that they are actually trying to stop, i.e. those without the original disks, will simply just use the mini-image, Starforce 0 crackers/hackers 1. Also, hurting ones customers doesn't show good business sense...

I wonder if anyone has done any research on copy protection, does copy protection actually lead to increased sales ? and is the amount of money spent of copy protection more than or less than the amount of money generated from increased sales ?

In an ideal world there wouldn't be a need for copy protection and we would also all have Alienware PC's ...and the girl you met in the chat would also be female and hot

L8er

K!rr3D

[Viper666]

Originally Posted by JoyBoy

Spoken like a champ. You have to pretty desperate to open up your box and pull cables out of holes in order to play a game. Anyways, I guess D-Day is protected with Starforce which is why there is not a proper crack for it.

Actually, disabling IDE channels in the BIOS seems to work just as well, at least it did on Dead To Rights. It sucks, but it's better than unplugging cables or keeping the original disc in the drive. I file those away in the closet and forget about them.

[H|LLJD00]

Originally Posted by k1rr3d

Check this out, the LameNoCD crack i've got for D-Day actually requires you to open up your box and pull out the IDE cables from your CD/DVD drives, mount the lame image in Alcohol and then reboot your machine.

Or... you cud just disable the cd/dvd drive in the Hardware Device section..

[JoyBoy]

Originally Posted by H|LLJD00

Or... you cud just disable the cd/dvd drive in the Hardware Device section..

If only it were that simple

[k1rr3d]

Originally Posted by H|LLJD00

Or... you cud just disable the cd/dvd drive in the Hardware Device section..

After reading the txt file that came with the crack, I had exactly the same thought, you know, "check these bozo's, why don't they just disable the drives in the Device Manager ?"

It didn't work, starforce still detects them In my minds eye I could just see the developers of starforce having a good chuckle while coding that bit of logic and saying "I wonder how many we are going to catch with this ?"

Although I dont recall trying to uninstall the drive in the Device Manager. Im tempted to try it, but Im haunted by a image of the starforce developers, now having a really good laugh and saying "We knew you'd try that next, loser !".

[k1rr3d]

Originally Posted by k1rr3d

the LameNoCD crack i've got for D-Day actually requires you to open up your box and pull out the IDE cables from your CD/DVD drives, mount the lame image in Alcohol and then reboot your machine.

Thanks to a little utility called Starforce Nightmare (previously called Starf**k), I no longer need to open up my box and pull out the IDE cables from my CD/DVD drives to get the mini-image crack working.

I use Starforce Nightmare to disable my master and slave devices on my secondary IDE channel (No reboot required), mount the mini-image in Alcohol and play the game. When Im done playing I use Starforce Nightmare to enable my master and slave devices on my secondary IDE channel. I dunno how these guys do it, but it works perfectly for me.

Starforce Nightmare can be downloaded here :
Starforce Nightmare

I strongly recommend you read the txt file that accompanies the utility before using it....the following is an excerpt from the txt file:


Before using this program keep in mind: all what you do, you do on your own risk.
Be carefull, if you are using it: not all features will work for every one, it depends on your hardware and software combination.
If you are not sure about it, delete this program.


Like I said it works for me with D-Day 1.0, my machine is setup as follows:
Windows XP SP1 + various updates done via automatic updates, so its probably SP2.
ASUS P4C800 Deluxe motherboard.
Primary IDE Channel
master: Maxtor 80 gig HDD
slave: Maxtor 80 gig HDD
Secondary IDE Channel
master: Samsung CD-R/RW
slave: LG DVD writer

My cd/dvd drives are master and slave on my secondary IDE channel. You will need to know which position and channel your cd/dvd drives are on to use Starforce Nightmare.

This is what I did to determine the position (master/slave) and channel (primary/secondary) of my cd/dvd drives:

1. Open Device Manager.
To open Device Manager, right click MyComputer, select properties then click the Device Manager button on the Hardware tab page (hopefully I dont need to tell you that you must first select the hardware tab page by clicking the word hardware which is located between the words Computer Name and Advanced ).

2. Change the view to "Devices by connection".
Click View|"Devices by connection"

3. Expand the storage controllers node.
My storage controllers node, was under the PCI bus node and was called "Intel <blah-blah> Ultra ATA Storage Controllers.

4. Expand the Primary and Secondary IDE Channel nodes.
Under the storage controllers node you'll find the Primary and Secondary IDE Channel nodes, expanding these will reveal which devices are on which channel.

Now you know which devices are on which channel, to determine the position, right click on the device node under the channel node and then select properties. On the "General" tab page check the location, on my machine, Location 0(0) denotes master and Location 1(1) denotes slave.

Use this utility with caution, read the txt file it contains important information.

Lastly, a word of thanks to the developers, I appreciate your efforts. I agree, you obviously do have deep expert knowledge of the hardware architecture.

Thanks,
k1rr3d

[DABhand]

I wish people would learn things, before they decide to go full force shouting at people making mini-images, like...


1. Why its hard to crack StarForce

2. Mini-Images are a universal no matter what patch you have installed to play a game with no-cd/dvd

3. Its not messy as Starforce Nightmare.


Why do people always think that crackers are being lazy because a crack for a patch or game isnt out within days of a release? Maybe its because its a difficult one?


Just wish they would do some homework first before typing, would save alot of embarassment on their parts.