Stronghold 2 v1.3.1

[koenll]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

Did you A) mount the image or B) burned it with Alcohol 120% and then used it in your CD/DVD-ROM drive with RPMS emulation enabled in Alcohol 120%? Solution A) will not work, while solution B) may work.

I Tried both a) and b) but nothing worked. I've much different kind of errors like emulator detected using option a) (also with alcohol and savehider. And When I Burn the disc with Alcohol I've got an error because it's not the original disc.

What's the problem? Is it the problem that the DELUXE version is on DVD and the image is an cd image? or is it something else?

Greetings Koenll
(waiting and hoping that a exe crack comes out voor 1.3.1...)

[Joe Forster/STA]

Oh, by the way, for RPMS emulation to work with Alcohol 120% and the backup copy CD, inserted into a physical CD-DVD/ROM drive, you need to also burn the RPMS emulation information onto the backup CD! See "Burn 'RPMS' to recordable media" on the Alcohol 120% Image Burning Wizard "Prepare your CD/DVD Recorder" screen.

[thedude111]

1 slight problem...



It reckons there is no RMPS information in the source, and it wont let me check the box (Burn RMPS to recordable media). I have RMPS enabled in Alchohol 120% settings.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Guess what, you need to READ the RPMS information from the original...

[Dieselbrad]

Grab the Image and Follow the Instructions.. Shoot me any questions: This worked for me by trial and Error Perfectly Twice.

Update Stronghold 2 to version 1.3. Use ingame Update it works great!

1. Install Alcohol 120%- Restart Your Computer.
2. Disable All virtual drives in Alcohol 120%
3. Under Options Enable Sub-Channel burning for SecuRom Games.
(Middle of 3 Options)
4. Burn the Image(“Needs Emulation) as a “NormalCD” at 40x or lower.
5. Once Image is written Uninstall Alcohol 120% - Restart Your Computer
6. In Daemon Tools v4.03 (or Higher) Enable only RMPS emulation.
7. Insert the Newly Burnt Cracked Image in a PHYSICAL CD-ROM Drive!
8. Play the Game & Get Owned by Sir Dieselbrad!

[Joe Forster/STA]

Could you, please, try without step 6 (enabling RMPS emulation in Daemon Tools) and report back if it still works? Thanks!

[Dieselbrad]

Without RMPS Emualtion The EXE tries to authenticate the CD-ROM until it times out. (about 90 Sec)
I was unable to get it running properly with Alcohol 120% without Extra Tools and Since DaemonTools is Free I would recommend keeping it in the System tray as it is not a bloated software.

SecuRom (SH2.exe)also can not detect the virtual drives in DTv4.03 so no disabling then re-enabling crap as you would with Alcohol 120%.

This is a great Game. FireFly did an excellent job on this one.

Good Luck All. Shoot me any questions.

[koenll]

Originally Posted by Dieselbrad

Grab the Image and Follow the Instructions.. Shoot me any questions: This worked for me by trial and Error Perfectly Twice.

Update Stronghold 2 to version 1.3. Use ingame Update it works great!

1. Install Alcohol 120%- Restart Your Computer.
2. Disable All virtual drives in Alcohol 120%
3. Under Options Enable Sub-Channel burning for SecuRom Games.
(Middle of 3 Options)
4. Burn the Image(“Needs Emulation) as a “NormalCD” at 40x or lower.
5. Once Image is written Uninstall Alcohol 120% - Restart Your Computer
6. In Daemon Tools v4.03 (or Higher) Enable only RMPS emulation.
7. Insert the Newly Burnt Cracked Image in a PHYSICAL CD-ROM Drive!
8. Play the Game & Get Owned by Sir Dieselbrad!

Thanks a lot to all, it works. Better wasting a cd-r than the original game dvd...

[Caius]

Please help!!!!
when i try to burn Image "NEEDS EMULATION.MDS", i get massage:
"UNRECOGNISED FILE FORMAT FOR RECORDING!
PLEASE INSERT A RECOGNISED IMAGE FILE FOR RECORDNIG!"
I had done first 3 steps.

[azizsebetay]

Originally Posted by Dieselbrad

Grab the Image and Follow the Instructions.. Shoot me any questions: This worked for me by trial and Error Perfectly Twice.

Update Stronghold 2 to version 1.3. Use ingame Update it works great!

1. Install Alcohol 120%- Restart Your Computer.
2. Disable All virtual drives in Alcohol 120%
3. Under Options Enable Sub-Channel burning for SecuRom Games.
(Middle of 3 Options)
4. Burn the Image(“Needs Emulation) as a “NormalCD” at 40x or lower.
5. Once Image is written Uninstall Alcohol 120% - Restart Your Computer
6. In Daemon Tools v4.03 (or Higher) Enable only RMPS emulation.
7. Insert the Newly Burnt Cracked Image in a PHYSICAL CD-ROM Drive!
8. Play the Game & Get Owned by Sir Dieselbrad!

Thank u very much. Dieselbrad

[Dieselbrad]

Originally Posted by azizsebetay

Thank u very much. Dieselbrad

Always a pleasure..

[Litro]

Originally Posted by Dieselbrad

Grab the Image and Follow the Instructions.. Shoot me any questions: This worked for me by trial and Error Perfectly Twice.

Update Stronghold 2 to version 1.3. Use ingame Update it works great!

1. Install Alcohol 120%- Restart Your Computer.
2. Disable All virtual drives in Alcohol 120%
3. Under Options Enable Sub-Channel burning for SecuRom Games.
(Middle of 3 Options)
4. Burn the Image(“Needs Emulation) as a “NormalCD” at 40x or lower.
5. Once Image is written Uninstall Alcohol 120% - Restart Your Computer
6. In Daemon Tools v4.03 (or Higher) Enable only RMPS emulation.
7. Insert the Newly Burnt Cracked Image in a PHYSICAL CD-ROM Drive!
8. Play the Game & Get Owned by Sir Dieselbrad!

I did everything step by step, and it didn't work for me. Still says: "A required security module can not be activated. This program can not be executed."

First I tried with a CD-RW and it didn't worked. The I tried with a CD-R. Didn't worked either.

I am using Daemon Tools v4.03HE with RMPS Emulation On.

I have 2 physical drives. One is a DVD Drive, and the other one is a DVD-RAM drive. I don't have CD-ROM drives. Could this be the problem ?

[Dieselbrad]

Originally Posted by Litro

I did everything step by step, and it didn't work for me. Still says: "A required security module can not be activated. This program can not be executed."

This means something is trying to hide the emulation from the executable. http://www.securom.com/support_enduser.asp?t=2&ts1=4

You should be seeing a "Wrong Disc inserted" Error if your system is clean from Alcohol 120% and have no anit-blacklisting tools running.(SRstop and SD4hide)

The drive should not matter, assuming it can read CD-Roms, and DaemonTools 4.0x will work just fine. Do you have any other Cd burning or backup software that would be hiding something? Will the game start with oringinal CD-ROM?

Also, If the executable is hanging 30sec before telling you this than something is interfering w/ RMPS emulation. Ensure the Disc is identified in Windows as SH2 and not "Needs Emulation".

[007snicker]

I installed alcohol 120 %,
disabled virtual drives
enabled ''securom *new*''
burned the image(it was called: sh2_disc2) to a cd-rom
uninstalled alcohol 120%
enabled rmps emulation in daemon tools 4.03
and tried to play but it didnt't work.
there is a errror:

plz can someone help me

[Joe Forster/STA]

Have you overwritten the EXE with a crack? According to your description, I assume you didn't. Then there's a problem with your installation, not the CD/image.

Also, where did you get that "sh2_disc2" image from? Looks like you should create a better (image) copy of your original CD!