Scrapland by American McGee

[bruuno117]

Should i still run star***** even when i have manually disconnected my optic drives, and should i enable emulation in d-tools, and which one ?

[CH4R1ie]

I think patching your virtual drives are still required. I myself tried unplugging my drives, but it was no use. You can only use the mini image to start the game (or the original cd, but I suppose you want to play without the cd). Try using different combinations of StarForce to start the game. When the checking starts and it takes too long then you shouldn't bother waiting for it to finish because when it detects the correct disk, it will start almost instantly (so you'll save plenty of time while you're testing). You might also try getting the latest StarFock. The latest version is 0.83, and they are going to release 0.9 soon. It might be possible, that StarFock isn't fully compatible with your hardware configuration, so might need to wait. Just make sure you're using the lastest D-Tools (3.47) or Alcohol 120% (1.9.2.1705) and StarFock (0.83). Don't use any of the emulations, it works fine without them.
About your computer crashing, well try running other games and if they don't crash, the source of the problem might be, that you are using one of the agressive patching methods.

Good Luck

[bruuno117]

well i didnt use any patching when i disconnected the drives. Besided i tried to run another game and nothing happened, so i dint know if it was the protection that stepped in and shut it down, that would be a little to agressive for my taste. Ill try the latest version of star**** if im able to finde it. Lets see how it goes.

[bruuno117]

I finally got this thing to work, it kinda helped when i got both my optical drives on the secondary channel, after i mounted the image with d-tools and ran star******, it just ran like it was supposed to. So thanks for all the advice, without it i would never have figured it out

but now im having a problem with buffer underrun when i burn cds :/ well not really, smartburn takes care of them, but it didnt happen before for some reason .

[CH4R1ie]

You're welcome

About buffer underruns, try to press unpatch blacklist on all starforce versions several times to make sure it reverts the settings. You may also press enable drives several times as well. Let's hope it solves it.

[MaPomme]

Originally Posted by bruuno117

I finally got this thing to work, it kinda helped when i got both my optical drives on the secondary channel, after i mounted the image with d-tools and ran star******, it just ran like it was supposed to. So thanks for all the advice, without it i would never have figured it out

but now im having a problem with buffer underrun when i burn cds :/ well not really, smartburn takes care of them, but it didnt happen before for some reason .

Starfock is a hard hack, the OS isn't intended for temporary IDE drives. Then, after Scrapland and before burning, i reboot.

Bonjour chez vous,

Ma Pomme

[Elazordis]

Hi all

Thanx for explains, but I don't succeed in launching scrapland. Nothing works, and I've done everything several time.
It drives me crazy !
Shall I use alcohol 120% instead of daemon tool 3.47 ?

Thx

[whoeverxxx]

After reading through all this, I think I'll use the original disc or more than likely live without the game.. Disconnecting drives to get a game to work without the original disc sounds like more work than tring to keep the original discs from getting all scratched up.