Prince Of Persia - The Two Thrones-USE THIS THREAD, Do NOT START another Thread!

[nINJAkECIL]

Originally Posted by rkwpk

Yeah thats the point the NF3 owner dont even need to disable the ide channel, Also is your hard drive PATA or SATA?

Does PATA or SATA hard drive got any involvement in StarFucker things?? I got a SATA hard drive and I don't have to unplug my DVD drive, but my friends who has a PATA hard drive has to unplug his DVD drive to play the game. and why is it that NF3 owner doesn't have to unplug the drive??? could you explain it please???

[neptun]

Originally Posted by nINJAkECIL

Does PATA or SATA hard drive got any involvement in StarFucker things?? I got a SATA hard drive and I don't have to unplug my DVD drive, but my friends who has a PATA hard drive has to unplug his DVD drive to play the game. and why is it that NF3 owner doesn't have to unplug the drive??? could you explain it please???

The newer versions of starforce ( 3.5 and 3.6 ) are trying to communicate directly with IDE controller and reenable the disabled optical drives and this is the reason software disable ( through device manager or SFNightmare ) don´t work for most people anymore for this new versions.It looks like the IDE controller used in nvidia chipsets is strange enough for starforce so the protection can not reenable the disabled drives and for many people having nforce motherboards software disable still works.The best situation is for nforce3 chipset where sometimes is not even necessary to disable drives.The type of your harddrive does matter but i don´t know how exactly this is involved.

[nINJAkECIL]

Originally Posted by neptun

The newer versions of starforce ( 3.5 and 3.6 ) are trying to communicate directly with IDE controller and reenable the disabled optical drives and this is the reason software disable ( through device manager or SFNightmare ) don´t work for most people anymore for this new versions.It looks like the IDE controller used in nvidia chipsets is strange enough for starforce so the protection can not reenable the disabled drives and for many people having nforce motherboards software disable still works.The best situation is for nforce3 chipset where sometimes is not even necessary to disable drives.The type of your harddrive does matter but i don´t know how exactly this is involved.

But I don't disable my DVD drive via any software or sfnightmare, I just use DT4 to mount the image. I think it has to do with what you said that the IDE controller in nforce3 is strange enough to confuse the starfoce...
anyway thanks for the info...

[Anti669]

Alright... Having well and truly waited the "reasonable" length of time outlined in the forum rules (two weeks), I am officially requesting a mini-image of the US version of PoP:TTT.

As I've mentioned several times, I need it for my EU gore patch... I really, really want to slice some heads off .

Is it Starforce causing a lot of problems, or is it just that no one's gotten around to doing it yet? 'Cause King Kong also uses SF 3.6.10.06, and there seems to be a mini-image for that now (dunno if it actually works though...).

EDIT: Downloaded the King Kong mini-image and... it's not a mini-image, just an exe which patches the full image to make it work.

There's a No CD for UFO:Aftershock, which also uses SF 3.6.10.06, but it's for version 1.2, so it's possible copy protection was eased off in a patch due to numerous complaints (wouldn't be the first time...). Does anyone know if any games running this version of Starforce have been mini-imaged?

[Muyfa666]

Censorship is one of the worst thing I know. We REALLY need a uncensor-patch for this game. Hope you'll find a way, Anti669.

[Joe Forster/STA]

@Anti669: I'm also officially informing you that noone from the professional cracker groups visits this forum so your request is just yet another shout into the wind...

[qrpiech]

hi. i've checked my previous advices and i cen tell this:
as for number 1 - messin with "POPData.bf" file (changin region) does the same effect as switching the european exe (5,44mb) with us exe (5,13mb) - starforce checking succeeds but the game wont launch anyway (after starforce window nothing happens at all), so i think that u dont even have to switch european exe at all, just the starforce files.
as for number 2 - bone splitting setting makes no difference for me at all

and i've been thinking that maybe switchin "amir" files with starforce other versions (or same versions from games already cra... cooked) would be a good idea?

and finally - censorship in pop really sucks and im really dissapointed with ubisoft's policy (not even a single word from them in this subject). Also that's not the first time they've made their game unplayable for some gamers due to "security reasons". i still remember copyprotection problems with XIII and that they did not respond at all (i had to use a non-official patch (not a crack, a patch to 1.3version) just to run an original game on my computer. hell, 'xcuse me for this offtop :P

[Anti669]

@Joe: Yeah, I know it's not gonna do any good

Originally Posted by LoedD
It's impossible to create mini-images for Starforce3, SecuROM7, and Safedisc4.6 games

Impossible's a bit of a strong word, don't you think? Just 'cause no one's figured it out yet doesn't mean no one ever willl...

@qrpiech: If you have a read through PoPData.bf, you'll see it contains nothing but menu text - no game variables or anything else in there.

Someone over at the official PoP forums got it running, uncensored, by replacing PoP3.exe, amir.exe and amir.dll with the US versions, and running the game with the US disc. So we know where the problem is now, but can't do any more without a mini-image (as I'm presuming you don't have a US CD...) Unless someone here wants to crack Starforce for me? .

[LoedD]

Originally Posted by Anti669

Alright... Having well and truly waited the "reasonable" length of time outlined in the forum rules (two weeks), I am officially requesting a mini-image of the US version of PoP:TTT.

It's impossible to create mini-images for Starforce3, SecuROM7, and Safedisc4.6 games