Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

[behedwin]

yes i have read many ways but i do not understand them all!
i am asking fore a guide that is simple that a amature can use!
a many guidse fore diffrent hardware!

[t.foster73]

What you need

1.USB Adaptor housing costing £20 to £50
2.Starforce Nightmare software (Links on this site)
3.Alcohol 120 software latest version (1.9.5.2802). A trial version can be found at http://www.alcohol-software.com/

Firstly, you need to make a backup of the original disc. To do this, start Alcohol 120 and select FILE/OPTIONS/EMULATION, and then check the RMPS box. Now select FILE/OPTIONS/READING, and check the DPM measuring precision to HIGH. Now go to IMAGE MAKING WIZARD, select the Starforce 1/2/3 profile, and ensure the read speed is 1*. Next you simply select the destination for the MDF and MDS Image files. Please note that if the file size exceeds 4gb, then your disks MUST be formatted with NTFS, as FAT32 has a single 4gb limit on files. Wait for the disc to be scanned and the files created, and then you are ready to burn your image. Note that with the latest Starforce, you can't mount this image, you must burn it to a DVD. Select the IMAGE BURNING WIZARD, and burn to disc, ensuring theat the RMPS box is checked.

Now we need to play from this backup. The latest Starforce checks for any IDE drives, and INSISTS that the DVD must be in this drive. We must therefore ensure it can't see any IDE channels, either by unplugging them, or by using the much easier STARFORCE NIGHTMARE, which allows you to disable the IDE channel that the optical drive is using. Simply start the program and disable the channel the optical drive is using. Next, ensure that the USB drive is installed with appropriate drivers if required (XP usually self-configures USB devices). Now in Alcohol or Daemon tools (doesn't matter which), select 'ENABLE RMPS EMULATION', and insert your backup into the USB drive and run the game.

If the game doesn't run, then it's most likely that you MDS file has not been created correctly, so you must use one somebody else has made (available here and on other sites).

[behedwin]

may i ask a thing!
why buy this usb thing just to crack a game!
the game cost 30-50 and the usb thing cost 30-50

crack fore me means that it should be free!
i have the hole game and have installed it but i cant start it
pay 30-50 just to get it to start feels ....

[coffin filler]

That was very Kind mr t.foster73 and also NoOb proof. As mentioned in another post this thread should be stickied for a while to stop the same Qs being asked repetadly.

[PigBoT]

So a USB DVD drive will allow you to play your backed up game, but does anyone know if an IDE DVD drive with a Serial ATA adapter work?

[coffin filler]

Originally Posted by behedwin

may i ask a thing!
why buy this usb thing just to crack a game!
the game cost 30-50 and the usb thing cost 30-50

crack fore me means that it should be free!
i have the hole game and have installed it but i cant start it
pay 30-50 just to get it to start feels ....

And there you have it. Also when you think the ST3 dev's will more than likely disable this method in an update it bears the question. Do you want to be able to play all current SF3 games on your backed up disk ? Do you have an original shop bought version of SCCT to do what t.foster73 suggested ?. You can not do the above with a coppied game/Downloaded version/warez etc etc. You have to have an original bona fida shop retail version. Do you have one of them?.

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by PigBoT

So a USB DVD drive will allow you to play your backed up game, but does anyone know if an IDE DVD drive with a Serial ATA adapter work?

Works great on SATA drives, I backup my games then mount the image (after changing device names in Daemon) set RPMS on, close daemon from taskbar keeping emulation on. The image was on the SATA anyways, used Starforce Nightmare to disable 2nd channel (IDE DVD-rw/Rom), disabled node and disabled ATA.

Ran the game without a problem from the image

[t.foster73]

I'm pretty sure the next Starforce update will block SATA/RAID and USB tricks. I don't advise anyone to buy a USB housing just to play a handful of games. In my case, I managed to get one for £15 from my local computer shop, but these things normally retail for a lot more. This Starforce proliferation could seriously finish me off with PC games for good. I can understand (And to a certain degree, agree with) the publishers making backups very hard to create, but if I can't make a backup, using whatever workaround, then I don't buy the game, it's as simple as that. Starforce has really made my hobby of Gaming into a miserable pastime the last few months. It's just becoming ridiculous the steps you have to go to to keep you original in the CD cabinet, and frankly, I've nearly had enough of it. Perhaps with Memory becoming so cheap we may see games being produced on cartridges, but that's probably just wishful thinking.

I can't even say that Piracy is to blame, because without Pirates we wouldn't have NOCD fixes. Piracy and game sales have always been uncomfortable bedfellows, with kids pooling their money to buy a game because they can share it etc. Far from saving the PC gaming industry, I seriously think Starforce could finish it off for good. Console games are a little different because they tend to run much better, being made for cloned hardware. A friend of mine who owns a local games shop tells me that sales of Starforce protected games are down, when it is the opposite you would expect (or is it the developers that expect?). I'm not giving up just yet, but I suspect the end is near for my love of PC gaming.

[LoedD]

I don't this is the end of being able to backup software.
Not every publisher can effort to buy starforce protection cuz it's the most expencive one and after a while every protection gets cracked. So lets this happens as fast as possible

[!HaGaR!]

I bought this kinda adapter for just 10 € at ebay.
And its very functional. Back-Up a crashed Windows/Data Hardisk?
No more unplugging your own hds or open your system to add the crashed device to your system. (Okay, you may use PE-Software instead, but...)
Just if you need to add one more harddisk to your system for your own, you don´t need a raid-controller, a.s.o.

There are more reasons to buy such thingy than only for warez-users.
As I pointet out in another thread, I just confirmed Karlmuellers solution - using my own game to create the image of the dvd. (So please don´t blame me - I am no warez-kiddie for sure ;-D)

@SCVirus - I smell a little taste of warez-using in your posts...

Signed
Hagar

[LoedD]

Do you get an "please insert disc to another drive" error if you mount the SCCT image?
Im askin cuz I get another error. It just tells me that the key is probably correct but not for this version.
BUT I use european DVD and key of SCCT. Maybe this could be a step closer to the goal. Can anyone post me the us key please.
thx

[DABhand]

It all started so well too, you cant ask for keys and nobody will give you them.

Even if your intentions are genuine, it is against rules sorry buddy.

[PigBoT]

The reason i asked about the IDE to SATA is because I have an adapter made by Gigabyte that came with a motherboard I used in a system build for someone. They obviously didn't need it, so I got it for Free-ninty-free. Thanks for the reply!

[LoedD]

Originally Posted by DABhand

It all started so well too, you cant ask for keys and nobody will give you them.

Even if your intentions are genuine, it is against rules sorry buddy.

So let me ask another key question. Is there any difference between the eu and the us key? I know starforce has a unique key that means everyone has the same one. I already searched the web but only found the key I already own or invalid ones. So would you even write the 1st letter/number of the us key. That way I'll be able to find out if I already found the right one and that means that it is invalid for me so there is no chance at all.

[LoedD]

Finally for today a last question? As you know the backup can be played as DVD from USB device and as image from SATA. Did anyone try to mount the image from an external HDD? Should work too, right?