Daemon Tools 4

[prollfin]

This won't solve my problem running SF games, as DT doesn't work for me even with optical drives unplugged...

[RamsesII]

Well.. the logic behind this method is very simple actually.

SF by design accepts only drives connected to the IDE controller on your motherboard and blacklists all other optical SCSI/USB devices.. as a last resort it only allows SCSI/USB when no IDE connected drives are detected.

DT4 installs a virtual SCSI controller, hence also a virtual SCSI CD/DVD drive

An optional ATA133/RAID controller is also installed as SCSI controller and all connected drives are detected as SCSI, so SF has no idea if any ATAPI devices are connected to it.

In my case: I have 2 SATA harddisks (so no IDE required), 1 DVD drive and 1 ATAPI floppy drive, which were connected to my 2nd IDE connector on my MB.. I also had to unplug the power from my DVD to get DT4 to work correctly (i don't use hide tools), but now i use an extra controller all the IDE controllers are free.

Strangely, other copy protecions seem to accept this trick also. I also made a image of NFSMW (safedisk 4.6) and it runs with DT4

I could be lucky though, but this worked for me