Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

[t.foster73]

Is each key unique to ech CD? I'm sucessfully playing backups of Silent Hunter 3 and Chaos Theory thanks to Karllmuller, and if I can do it, then anyone can. I must stress I've bought both games, and made my own MDS images. I've tried the USB drive trick on 3 different PC's, all with different hardware, and both games run perfectly on all of them (As far as I can tell). I must say that none of the PC's had any internal drives at this point, so I'm not sure if using STARF***ER to disable the IDE channels would work. I shall be trying this shortly and will report back with my findings. Using the Silent Hunter 3 NODVD fix bypasses the disc check completely, and also appears to have different gameplay from the untampered version, though with the open nature of the game it's tricky to tell. If (Big IF) a Chaos Theory fix becomes available, it will be a lot easier to tell if the gameplay is the same. I suspect this is why there isn't one available yet.

Using the USB drive trick allows you to keep the original safe, yet still update the game to the latest version, which in some respects is better than a nocd/dvd crack, though I'm pretty sure that the next Starforce update will fix this loophole, and that will be the end of RELIABLE game backups. I'm not throwing accusations, but maybe some people having problems with this method don't have the original DVD's, if you know what I mean

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I must say that none of the PC's had any internal drives at this point, so I'm not sure if using STARF***ER to disable the IDE channels would work. I shall be trying this shortly and will report back with my findings.

Please do.

but maybe some people having problems with this method don't have the original DVD's, if you know what I mean

Yup we know what you mean

[SCVirus]

Can anyone confirm what happens when you try to play off of a virtual drive. I know it doesn't work, but what does it do when you use d-tools or alcohol w/ rpms on. On my system its crashing but I'm not sure if that has to due with starforce or not. If not I may have found a workaround.

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@ SCVirus. I dont have this game as of yet (wont until/if ever theres a fix) but im sure what you asked has been discused already in another SCCT thread. (Im not 100% though). I guess search is your best option until someone posts back in here but when your in the middle of something you/I/we want answers straight away. (Expecialy when trying to crack a game etc).

[SCVirus]

I have been following the threads, I've seen people say that it claims key is wrong (when it is right), that is due to rmps emulation not being present (on the drive or mds), but no one has said what happens otherwise, only that it doesn't work.

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Originally Posted by SCVirus

I have been following the threads, I've seen people say that it claims key is wrong (when it is right), that is due to rmps emulation not being present (on the drive or mds), but no one has said what happens otherwise, only that it doesn't work.

In that case we need someone else to post in this thread what happens in precise detail. Anyway what are your finding thus far ? (or you going to keep that under your hat until you have the facts).

[SCVirus]

I will post here again in a second, as I believe it was simply an error on my computer that I think I have now fixed.... If this is so I may have a very dirty and complicated workaround (software only though) within a few minutes. But every little but helps... post here your virtual drive experiances.