Starforce Petition!

[mrnobodywtb]

*boycotts all starforce games*

[felipe_c]

well, Starforce is a protection very strong, but the driers(software) that it install on the computers y very fu*k and I think that it´s illegal. For that reason I don´t buy the games that contains inside this protection.

I love mi Pc and I don´t want that this protection fu*k my DVD or in the worse case my PC...

I think that nobody should buy these games.. If we don´t buy these games the enginners that create these games don´t be agree to mount this protection on their games. DON´T BUY GAMES WITH THIS PROTECTION until they see the true problem that Starforce cause to us, the final users...

thanx

felipe_c

[CMDR Sweeper]

I am a StarForce boycotter, any games with just the hint of StarForce on it is shyed like plague!

I have allready teased the developers of StarForce into a little "no win" situation on their forums...

EDIT: I can now conclude that StarForce has other drastic devastating effects on users of external HD's as well.
I have felt it as now, windows will NOT boot with the HD switched on, I have to switch it on once it is in windows, if I do it earlier it will only give me a black screen.

How long will it be until Symantec stamps StarForce as a virus?

[thebatch88]

I recently acquired Worms 4 Mayhem, and it has Starforce 3, but no system crashes yet? Should I be worried? o.0

[Godsredeemed]

CMDR Sweeper.

Your remarks relative to devastating effects is really interesting .

I run, inaddition to my main machine, with up to 4 external HDs for various reasons.

Being a bit of a collector all of my latest software was stored on one of the external HDs.

I installed my one and only purchased SF protected game and something happened to completely destroy the file structrue of the HD storing all my software.

Needsless to say I had to reformat and start all over again.

For other reasons I too boycott SF, but I wonder if the one and only intall caused the external HD destruction?

I remain a StarForce boycotter. Hurry up DT "all is forgiven"!

[DABhand]

Collector? You mean downloaded images yes?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hi guys, just a recent story for you...

Last Friday an old schoolmate of mine gave me a phone call, saying his PC stopped booting, saying there was no OS installed. He has Windows 98 as well as Windows XP, with quite a lot of applications installed, but the most important part was the music and samples for his own pop band and some other bands he lends a helping hand to. (Yeah, yeah, as usual, no backups at all!)

The problem turned out to be in the boot area and the beginning of FAT1 on the first, FAT32-formatted partition. Many sectors were simply overwritten by some system-related data (chunks from extended CMOS, registry or Windows system memory?). With careful inspection and manual/semi-automatic repair, everything came back, none of the partitions reported any file system problems in Checkdisk/Scandisk afterwards. (Ridiculously enough, the software that repaired the overwritten areas properly was fsck.vfat from my old Red Hat Linux installation!)

In the meantime, my friend told me that the moment when the PC stopped booting was when he installed GT Legends, a Starforce-protected game, and allowed it to reboot the PC. Guess what, now he wants to get rid of the game completely and never try to install a Starforce-protected game on his PC again!

[kenmaher]

tried to make back up and mount image so i could use lma 2005 whitout disc (star force 3) computer chrashed original stoped working downloaded starforce nightmare and something else just to get game to work again . wont be buying star force games again

[Vicente123]

**** Starforce!!!!

[thebluegr]

Updated Starforce game list: I've found several different lists with Starforce games and added them to the existing list. All the games have been cross-referenced with GameCopyWorld. All the verified games are linked to the corresponding GCW page to obtain their no-cd crack . The non-verified games (games I couldn't find on GCW or that were listed in GCW with a non-starforce protection) have been placed in another list that follows.


List of verified Starforce games
7 Sins [3.4.71.19]
Anito: Defend A Land Enraged [1.x]
Afrika Korps VS Desert Rats [v3.3.31.21]
Bet on Soldier (no page exists on GCW)
Beyond Divinity [v3.x]
Blitzkrieg Rolling Thunder [v3.4.50.1]
Breed [3.3.33.06/3.3.33.08]
Chaos League [v3.x]
Codename: Outbreak (Russian) [1.x]
Codename: Panzers Phase One [v3.3.37.2]
Codename: Panzers Phase Two [v3.4.77.000]
Colin McRae Rally 2005 [v3.4.49.1]
Cossacks II Napoleonic Wars [v3.4.65.11]
Creature Conflict: The Clan Wars [v3.x]
Curse: The Eye of Isis [v3.x]
D Day [v3.4.41.1]
Domination
Etherlords 2 [v3.3.31.21]
Fire Chief: Fire Department [v3.x]
Gangland [v3.3.36.1]
Garfield
Gooka 2: The Mystery of Janatris
GTR: FIA GT Racing [v3.4.70.2]
I-Ninja
Kicker Manager 2004 [v3.03.036.001]
Kill.Switch [v3.3.33.8]
Korea: Forgotten Conflict [v3.3.27.36]
Maximus XV: Abraham Strong Space Mercenary [v3.x]
Medievil Lords [v3.x]
Obscure [v3.3.36.1]
Pac Man World 2 [v3.3.30.11]
Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy [3.x]
Psychotoxic
Restaurant Empire
Restricted Area
Runaway: A Road Adventure [3.x]
Shade: Wrath of Angels [v3.4.53.0]
Silent Hunter III [v3.4.71.19]
Singles: Flirt up your life [v3.3.33.6]
Singles 2: Triple trouble
Soldiers: Heroes of World War II [v3.3.36.1]
Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory [v3.4.71.19]
Still Life
Street Racing Syndicate
Sudeki [v3.4.71.19]
SuperPower 2
The Black Mirror [v3.3.27.36]
The Fall: Last days of Gaia [v3.4.63.3]
The Moment of Silence
The Suffering [v3.3.37.2]
The Suffering 2: Ties that bind
TOCA Race Driver 2 / DTM Race Driver 2 [v3.3.35.2]
Track Mania [v3.03.035.004]
UFO: Aftershock [v3.5] (no page exists on GCW)
War and Peace
Will of Steel
Worms 4 Mayhem [v3.5.05.03]
WWII: Frontline Command [v3.3.0.26]
X3: Reunion [v3.5] (no page exists on GCW)
XIII (Russian)
Xpand Rally [v3.3.x.x]


List of non-verified Starforce games
(No URLS on GameCopyWorld / No info / Erroneous info / Not protected by Starforce. Note: This list contains a lot of non-english games, as they can't be found on GCW. Some games have different protections for each language they have been released in. E.g. Army Men English seems to be unprotected, whereas Army Men Russian seems to be protected with Starforce)

1944 Battle of the Bulge [N/A]
AceSaga [N/A]
American Conquest (Russian) [v3.x]
Anstoss 4 [v3.x] (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Area 51
Army Men (Russian) (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Asterix & Obelix XXL (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Bandits: Phoenix Rising [3.03.036.001]
Bet on Soldier
Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Chaos League: Sudden Death (and Demo)
Club Football 2005
Chrome (Russian) [v3.x] (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Cossacks: Back To War [1.x] (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Cossacks: European War [v3.x] (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Counter Terrorist SF Fire for Effect (DVD) [v3.4.71.19]
Cross Racing Championship
Cycling Manager 3 [v3.x] (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Cycling Manager 4 [v3.3.36.1]
Demonic Speedway [v3.x]
Desert Rats vs. Afrika Corps [3.3.31.19]
Dead to Rights (3 CDs) [v3.3.37.26] (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Emergency Fire Response [v3.x]
Enigma: Rising Tide [v3.x] (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Etherlords [1.x] (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Fair Strike (2 CDs) [v3.3.33.3]
Fire Department 2
Gadget and the Gadgetinis
GT Legends (and Demo)
Heroes of Might & Magic IV: The Gathering Storm (Russian)
Horse Racing Manager[v3.x]
Icewind Dale 2: Heart of Winter [v3.x]
IL-2 Sturmovik [1.x]
League Manager 2005[v3.4.50.1] (Spanish)
Magna Carte/Carta (Korean) [1.x]
Magnamedia (Russian) [v3.x]
Mercedes-Benz World Racing (Spain) [v3.x] (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Might & Magic IX: Writ of Fate (Russia) (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Narsillion (Russia) [1.x]
Pax Romana [v3.3.30.11] (no information available)
Post Mortem (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Russia) [3.x] (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Pro Rugby Manager [v3.3.33.08]
Pro Rugby Manager 2
Rally Championship Xtreme (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Real Madrid Club Soccer (DVD) [v3.4.50.1] (Spanish)
Rendezvous 3 (Russian)
Revolution (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Scrapland [v3.4.50.1]
Second Sight
Seventh Seal (Asian)
Seventh Seal: The Resurrection of the Dark Lord (Asia) [2.x]
Shtyrlits 3: USSR Agent (Russian) [1.x]
Siege of Avalon (Russian) [1.x]
Silent Storm [3.x] (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Silkolene Honda Motocross [3.x]
Sniper (Poland) [3.x]
Tennis Masters Series: Battleground of Champions (Asian)
The Heroes of Three Kingdoms (Asian)
The I Of The Dragon (Russian) [v3.x]
The Kreed [v3.3.27.36]
The Westerner (French) [3.3.31.21] (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Traitor's Gate 2
UFO: Aftermath [v3.3.27.31] (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
V8 Supercars 2 [v3.3.35.02]
Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun [v3.3.30.5] (no information available)
Virtual Skipper 3 (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
Wildlife Park [v3.x] (GCW reports it is NOT protected by Starforce)
X2: The Threat [v3.3.30.5]
Xuan-Yuan Sword 4 (Asia) [v2.x]


Feel free to add any missing games to this list, or edit any mistakes found in it

Edit: Typos, a couple of games I forgot
Edit2: Added a couple of games from DABhand, thanks!
Edit3: Added some more links to GCW

[Dipangshu]

We in india never buy any games original. all the big games are available in tons in certain locations in just 1 dollar each. I have bought one black mirror and played full until the suicide of the hero ( last scene) without a glimpse of starforce.I have seen the list on the top of the forum and i don't know which version of black mirror is star force protected? However if u can get a brand new oracle 11 i in 3 dollar and if the official price of a good game like cossacks 2 is 40 dollars, which covers food supply of a bachelor like me for half a month in india, will u buy any original?

But i am now working in Bahrain for last 1 year and missing indian pirates. too unlucky with cossacks 2. In my lifetime i have played many good games but never paid more than 2 dollar for a game. So long live hackers and crackers.
I do believe they will **** starforce in due course.

[DABhand]

Oh dear :\ your stay didnt last long Dipang


@thebluegr


UFO: Aftershock = SF3.5
X3: Reunion = SF3.5

[thebluegr]

Thanks, added them to the list!

The new PC release of Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Collection also has Starforce and will not install properly. Sadly, this is how Namco ends up sharing the old classics with its customers.

Thanks to everyone here for the opportunity to keep up to date and express our views.

[Joe Forster/STA]

@Dipangshu: I agree with you but, unfortunately, this is NOT the right forum to discuss this. Actually, the discussion of warez is prohibited here so you might get banned for it...