Scrapland by American McGee

[bobon]

This is where I stand...

1. I changed system permissions on the daemontools and alcohol registry keys, and now they don't appear on device manager

2. I'm using starduck 0.83 and I tried to patch blacklist on .49 and .63, and also generate a link - to no avail. starduck definately disables my cdrom (it disappears from my computer)

What am I doing wrong? I hope some forum guru can help...

TIA

[CH4R1ie]

You might not need to listen to Mr. Cut & Paste (oJoJo) and skip all of his steps. It is possible, that you are doing everything fine, because Star**** is still in beta status and the project is currently frozen. You might try patching only one of the StarForce versions. If it still doesn't work, you might try using StarForce Nightmare from http://www.project-star****.tk/. I haven't tested it, so I don't know, if it works.

[BarryB]

StarForce NIGHTMARE 1.01 - Only works on WinXP - Win 2003 Server!!

One warning, DO NOT CLICK the Disable ATA button unless you like Blue Screens

This new Anti-Starforce tool seems to deal with problems inherent in StarF*ck, namely optical devices on mulitple IDE channels!

It allows disabling not only 1 or both IDE channels, but all CD/DVD drives or an individual Master/Slave drive on Primary/Secondary IDE or a combination of any Master/Slave drive on Primary/Secondary IDE!! So you should be able to disable your drives no matter where they are located on your IDE channel!

Just make sure you know what IDE channel your CD/DVD drives are on and if they are Master or Slave and don't disable your Hard Drives by mistake, you could crash your system

On the downside, this tool has no command line options and no automatic link generator, meaning you have to manually mount you mini images, run SFN and click the appropriate button to disable you drives depending where your optical devices are located, wait for them to be disabled and then run your game! Hopefully, given time, I would think an automatic link generator will be included.

I tested this with Scrapland:

1. Mounted the mini image in Daemon Tools.
2. As I have both DVD-ROM/DVD-Writer on Secondary IDE I clicked Disable ch2 in SFN. This seemed much faster at disabling my drives than the Disable CD or Sc.Mas-Sl Off options!
3. Ran the normal game link to run Scrapland.

It worked!

Seeing as StarF*ck works perfectly well for me (and has the benefit of the link generator) SFN is really only for those who can't get StarF*ck working!

So I'll be sticking to StarF*ck for now

[bobon]

I don't think starduck is my problem - I can see my cdrom drive disappear from my computer, and its a standalone on its ide channel anyway (I have 1 sata drive and 1 cdrom on ide). No combination of patching got this to work...

Is there a specific order I need to follow with patching/disabling/installing the game? I'm starting to think this will never work...

Thanks in advance

[Killa[B]]

i read all the posts in this thread so far and i read some others referingt to starbuck and stuff.
i crashed my computer a few times with startruck, till i found out/remembered, that my optical drive is secondary master. (i have another HDD on secondary slave. thats why my compute crashed, i think.)

now i tried sfn and disabled just the optical one.
the miniimage is in my one and only daemon-drive.
i tried to start the game, but the security thingy wingy just keeps crashing . . . i think.
i dont know.
the task gets a freeze and then i just killed it.

is there no other way to get this one running, or do i have to wait for a "real" crack to get this thing to work w/o the cd? but starforce IS crackable, right? =)

i would be happy for any suggestions or ideas how to get it running.
if anyone needs any infos bout my system, just ask . . . =)

[BarryB]

The ideal setup would be to have your Hard Drives on the Primary IDE Channel and your Optical Drives on the Secondary IDE channel, that way you can determine if this setup is better for running SF games or your system config is just not compatible with StarF*ck or SFN!

[twinnie]

Has anybody managed to get the german version of Scrapland working with the miniimage?
I have tried everything mentioned in this thread and SFNightmare seems to work, but the copy-protection-software is asking for another key???
Could it be they used different keys for the english and german version?

[Killa[B]]

Originally Posted by BarryB

The ideal setup would be to have your Hard Drives on the Primary IDE Channel and your Optical Drives on the Secondary IDE channel, that way you can determine if this setup is better for running SF games or your system config is just not compatible with StarF*ck or SFN!

my problem is, that i have 3 HDDs and 1 optical.
that way i HAVE TO mix the optical with the HDD on one cable. (360gb and still not enough space . . .) =)

more ideas? =)