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Old 18-04-2005, 17:04
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@ XtremeX I dont think tbaher mentioned HL2 in a cracking scence i think if you read his post again you will see he was refering to HL2 because of the way it's copy protection was implemented (STEAM). Wich opens up the debate about steam all over again.
Yea I know. I was just saying that even with it's copy protection (steam) it was cracked easily.

What I dont get is if Starforce is so hard to crack why dont more games use it? Its strange seeing new games coming out that people can easily crack & make a nocd patch for. I would have thought more companies would use starforce!!
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Old 18-04-2005, 22:58
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Yea I know. I was just saying that even with it's copy protection (steam) it was cracked easily.

What I dont get is if Starforce is so hard to crack why dont more games use it? Its strange seeing new games coming out that people can easily crack & make a nocd patch for. I would have thought more companies would use starforce!!
Perhaps we are focusing on the wrong solution?
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Old 19-04-2005, 02:14
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Yea I know. I was just saying that even with it's copy protection (steam) it was cracked easily.

What I dont get is if Starforce is so hard to crack why dont more games use it? Its strange seeing new games coming out that people can easily crack & make a nocd patch for. I would have thought more companies would use starforce!!
I think (and i dont know) but its down to cost. I assume SF3 is an expencive protection to implement,dev's cost and so on. Mabey thats why games like SCCT can afford it as they know its a safe bet they will shift lots of units making paying for it not such an issue. If there's more to it and anyone knows what exactly then i for one would be intrested to know.

Concerning steam i wouldnt say its a copy protection method as such, More a registering to allow activation of the product. Thats why a nocd etc was done so quickly as its not protected by SF3. I know its protection in one way but copy protection is exactly that and steam dose not make it any harder to back up your original etc. However i do dissagree in some ways that consumers are forced to go through the steam process to play the game and ...... actualy theres been more than enough debate about steam so im gonna leave it alone.
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Old 19-04-2005, 04:23
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Talking

Someone on a forum say that :

"Omg I got it to work. Not sure why it worked because I really didnt try anything new. If you own the game please try this and report back. I successfully loaded the game from my backup that I created from my retail disk. The backup was loaded from my regular DVD-RW that is not USB. Here is what I did.

1: Created a Image with Alcohol 120% (lastest version). I read the RMPS at the lowest settings (Precision High), same for the data. Read at the lowest settings to prevent errors.

2: Now this is the wierd part. Burn the image at the lowest settings and DO NOT burn the RMPS data to the disk. I burned it to DVDR.

It took along time to get past the protection screen(even froze my pc for a few seconds) but it did load. I tested it with 1.0 and 1.01, both load."

Anyone can try,and tell us if this method works ?
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Interesting...anyone else tried this?
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Old 19-04-2005, 08:14
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Someone on a forum say that :

"Omg I got it to work. Not sure why it worked because I really didnt try anything new. If you own the game please try this and report back. I successfully loaded the game from my backup that I created from my retail disk. The backup was loaded from my regular DVD-RW that is not USB. Here is what I did.

1: Created a Image with Alcohol 120% (lastest version). I read the RMPS at the lowest settings (Precision High), same for the data. Read at the lowest settings to prevent errors.

2: Now this is the wierd part. Burn the image at the lowest settings and DO NOT burn the RMPS data to the disk. I burned it to DVDR.

It took along time to get past the protection screen(even froze my pc for a few seconds) but it did load. I tested it with 1.0 and 1.01, both load."

Anyone can try,and tell us if this method works ?

Your very lucky if it really works for you. For me, now it loads even from DVD but then tells me that the key I entered is not for this DVD. Same error I get when I mount the image and use SF nightmare.
You need to be more exactly. What emulation was enabled? Did u use any other tools? DVD-R or DVD+R? Maybe u can send me your mds file so I can try again.
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Originally Posted by pc84
Someone on a forum say that :

"Omg I got it to work. Not sure why it worked because I really didnt try anything new. If you own the game please try this and report back. I successfully loaded the game from my backup that I created from my retail disk. The backup was loaded from my regular DVD-RW that is not USB. Here is what I did.

1: Created a Image with Alcohol 120% (lastest version). I read the RMPS at the lowest settings (Precision High), same for the data. Read at the lowest settings to prevent errors.

2: Now this is the wierd part. Burn the image at the lowest settings and DO NOT burn the RMPS data to the disk. I burned it to DVDR.

It took along time to get past the protection screen(even froze my pc for a few seconds) but it did load. I tested it with 1.0 and 1.01, both load."

Anyone can try,and tell us if this method works ?
Well i can confirm that it works!

No Emus needed (All emus on Alc and DT are off)!
No Drive's need to be deactivated!

What i used:
Alc 1.9.5.2802
mds from copybase.ch (the one from LeatherFace)
DVD+RW (Memorex DVD+RW)
LG GSA 4082B with lasted Firmware

Burned @ 2,4x
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Old 20-04-2005, 05:59
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Well i can confirm that it works!

No Emus needed (All emus on Alc and DT are off)!
No Drive's need to be deactivated!

What i used:
Alc 1.9.5.2802
mds from copybase.ch (the one from LeatherFace)
DVD+RW (Memorex DVD+RW)
LG GSA 4082B with lasted Firmware

Burned @ 2,4x
ok but i need more information... if i have well understand i must mount on a virtual drive (with alcoohl last version) the image of scct but using the mds of latherface, and i must create a new dvd image from this with "high precisione"... after i must burn this new image on a dvd without the rpms... and it must working, right?

pls answer
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Bull****
U just need to burn the image with a good mds to DVD without rmps
For some that workz
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mmmm ok
tnk u i hope that it will work
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