Lock On nocd

[Luciel]

ive got it and love it im a big fun of flight war sims and lock one has been my best expierence since falcon 4.0 and i seem to remember it got a high rating in pcgamer uk

[SubyRS]

The new v1.02 patch doesn't require the CD!? I've been waiting for the no CD for v1.02 since the patch was released. I uninstalled the game a while back because it worked lousey and was going to reinstall as soon as the new nocd was out. I guess it is like UT2004 latest patch that removes CD check.

So far the only games I still have to use a CD for are: Moto Racer 3, Rally Masters v3.2, and ofcourse Toca Race Driver 2. I don't suppose anyone ever got Moto Racer 3 fixed?

[krondike]

@SubyRS:
Good news!
Motor Racer 3 (1.0) and Motor Racer 3 (1.22) no-cd excist and Rally Masters v3.2 no-cd!

However Toca Race Driver 2, DREAM ON :P !

I know I know, that you love me, but for the last time I can't marry people I help! It's my policy!

[E_J]

Originally Posted by krondike

@SubyRS:
Good news!
Motor Racer 3 (1.0) and Motor Racer 3 (1.22) no-cd excist and Rally Masters v3.2 no-cd!

However Toca Race Driver 2, DREAM ON :P !

I know I know, that you love me, but for the last time I can't marry people I help! It's my policy!

Don't pat yourself on the back just yet. Those Motoracer cracks are useless for Motoracer 3. The first crack is for v1.0 which is far from the latest version of Motoracer 3. The second crack is for v3.22 of Motoracer 1 not Motoracer 3. I never saw a working crack for the latest Motoracer 3 release.

[SubyRS]

Gad dern-it. Just when I was getting my hopes up for MR3. Isn't that game Starforce protected too? ToCA 2 I could care less about. Got tired of it real fast. Rally Masters v3.2 crack at CGW I tried but it is for ripped ISO copies of the game only, so it doesn't work. I have the retail version of RM.

As far as MR3 goes, I never got any claimed crack to work, even the v1.0. I think any working cracks were for illegal downloaded copies of the game. Last I heard it was too labor intensive to mess with and not enough demand for the game to make it a worthwhile task.

[E_J]

Originally Posted by SubyRS

Gad dern-it. Just when I was getting my hopes up for MR3. Isn't that game Starforce protected too?

Motoracer 3 is protected with Tages copy-protection. There is a thread at CDFreaks which describes how to make a working backup of the game. However, I have never seen a working crack. From my experience last year or so when I got Motorcer 3, the copy-protection appears to be dependent upon the hardware of the PC on which it is installed. When you install the game, it stores a GUID on the PC which is unique to that PC, and it is somehow used in concert with the original CD-ROM to verify that the game is a legitimate copy. I never spent a whole lot of time trying to defeat the protection so I didn't come up with a working crack. However, this information appears to explain why the No CD-ROM crack for version 1.0 of the game that I have seen only works if the game has been installed from the original CD-ROM. If the GUID is invalid (as it would be if the game were installed from anything but an exact copy), then the game will not run. Tying the protection to the hardware of the PC prevents the game from being copied to another PC once it has been installed. It's a real nasty protection, and I'll never buy another game which uses it if I can't make a working backup.

[SubyRS]

From what I remember, using the v1.0 MR3 no CD would start the game, but would turn the full retail version into the then released MR3 demo. That was weired. I don't make backups of any of my games because I use no CD's, so I don't know about how that worked. Sounds like that Tages protection used is even better than Starforce eh?