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Old 23-02-2005, 19:38
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I WILL SAY TWO WORDS ONLY:

STARFORCE NIGHTMARE

i played bd and soldiers of ww2 with mini images without unplugging anything. it works like a charm

This tool lets you deactivate CDRom drives in your system. Actually it supports
not just deactivating of all drives on IDE channel, like star**** it do, but even a
cd drive separately. Also the combination of hard drive and cd drive on the same channel
would be possible too.

This tool is designed for using under Windows XP-Windows 2003 Server (Beta support for Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98 and Windows 95)
(IMPORTANT: This tool will not work under Windows 95)
(On Windows2000 systems your host should not be administrated externally by another main computer in the network, else you will not be able to run it properly)

PS: it works fine even for starforce version 3.4.65.11, but as described above, by
using the function "deactivate channel" since version 3.4.65.09 you may have to wait up
to 2 minutes till starforce finished its senseless trying to reset your channel.
It is the problem of hardware incompability of starforce and appears on every system
without physically installed ATAPI drives on IDE controller.
By using the function of deactivating cd drives separately it should start immediately

ANY QUESTIONS?
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I've got some questions:
It ought to be possible to create something to bypass the check, shouldn't it?

The problem is clearly in the protect.dll files of starforce, can't someone just create an executable for the game which doesn't call "protect.dll" at the beginning?

I've heard of <i>some</i> starforce games being cracked, like Star Wolves.

I suppose I just don't understand why it is any harder to create a "no-cd crack" for this game than it is for any game, perhaps someone can elaborate to someone as inexperienced in the field as I?

P.S. : What is the process for creating cracks, anyway? Do they check what resources are called and then just try to write another executable from scratch?
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Latest patch 1.47

My disks got destroyed in the hurricanes here in FL when I had to move, so all I have left is what was installed on my laptop to play. I don't want to have to go buy the game again.

I have updated my installation to the latest 1.47 patch, and have tried to mount the "mini disk" image on a virtual drive like others have suggested, but I just can't get it to work. It seems that the ability to get past this protection has dwindled as the patches increased.

Am I screwed?
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Old 17-04-2005, 12:03
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The problem is clearly in the protect.dll files of starforce, can't someone just create an executable for the game which doesn't call "protect.dll" at the beginning?
It's not that easy, there's a lot more thing that must be fixed

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I suppose I just don't understand why it is any harder to create a "no-cd crack" for this game than it is for any game.
It depends on what level of the protection that is used, some use a very light scheme, others implement the protection to its full "power" thus making it harder.

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P.S. : What is the process for creating cracks, anyway? Do they check what resources are called and then just try to write another executable from scratch?
Check target, kill antidebug, dump the whole thing, fix stuff, rebuild the mofo,
check again, wipe some stuff out like cd-checks(optional), tag the bastard
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the nocd fix for polish version 1.47 also works for the english version as well? thanks
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the nocd fix for polish version 1.47 also works for the english version as well? thanks
No my friend i tried it.
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but with polish ver this no cd works ! I finished the game with this crack
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but with polish ver this no cd works ! I finished the game with this crack
Yes with the Polish version,I have the english ver and it doesnt work.
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