hacking games with starforce

[t.foster73]

A 'NOCD' is one thing, but a stand-alone install and play disk is a different matter. If you can't make a working backup which allows you to install the game and play from, then you don't have a backup made! I fear that VERY soon ALL games will use Starforce 3. This might sound childish, but unless they crack Starforce 3 so a backup can be made, that's me finished with PC games for good! I can understand completely why developers want to use Starforce, but it's just legitimate users who suffer. Also, I suspect that if Starforce isn't sussed, we won't see many cracks. After all, most NOCD fixes are made by the Crack groups for their own RIPS, but if they can't rip the game, why will they bother to make nocd fixes? I still think the answer lies in making some sort of image of the install, together with registry changes (See my earlier post on this). I'm sure the crackers could suss this in days, but of course they aren't interested in this method because they want to make illegal RIPS to put on the Web. This is what I'm talking about, it's not rocket science:

1.Install Trackmania from original (MUST be from original)
2.Use NOCD fix
3.Create image of Hard Drive using Norton Ghost or TrueImage
4.Hyperthetically your dog eats the original disk :-)
5.Restore Drive image and game plays fine

OK, I know it's obvious. This method won't work when you upgrade your hardware of course, as the image won't match, but I'm certain this is the way around Starforce (for legitimate original owners of course). I've got a few coder frinds who are working on program as we speak (with some success I might add).