How to make your own Mini Image.

[Zulu]

@ziph
Haven't tried myself, but as in demos the drivers usually are integrated, you may try the Stalin subway demo:
e.g. http://www.stalinsubway.de/html/download.html

[Joe Forster/STA]

@ziph: Whoops, sorry then...

[Zulu]

Just found THIS new guide for Securom DVD. Tried F.E.A.R. ... and it works 232KB compressed

[Joe Forster/STA]

Is this guide useful and informative enough to be added to our forum FAQ?

[Zulu]

Can't judge it, yet. At least it's very easy. Will do some further testing whether that start value '500' can be used for more (most?) titles.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Exactly! It seems to be too simple and, therefore, probably not working in many (most?) cases!

[Zulu]

Hmm.. GTA San Andreas and Serious Sam II are also working; my last DVD to test is Vietcong 2, but first i have to install and make good B5T.

[Zulu]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

Is this guide useful and informative enough to be added to our forum FAQ?

After some further tests with my friends' Securom DVD games i would now say : Yes
Chronicles of Riddick, Pro Evolution Soccer 4, Battlefront 2 and Juiced also working

[neptun]

Zulu thank you for this information.I was wondering is there any way to transform the full backup image into maxi image?Is there a tool which can cut the unneeded sectors from the full image or is it possible to mount my backup image in virtual drive and make maxi image with alcohol or blindwrite from the virtual drive.Is this gonna work?

[Zulu]

You can use a capable (best up to 4GB or more) Hexeditor; convert (*2048) sectors to bytes, then choose the blocks/gaps and fill them with zeroes (of course that's no "cutting" or rather a fixed mini-image)

Originally Posted by neptun

I was wondering is there any way to transform the full backup image into maxi image?

I haven't tried BW5Tweaker on a mounted image, but if it's valid... why shouldn't that work ? Otherwise with Hexeditor.

[ziph]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

@ziph: Whoops, sorry then...

Sweet as dude....must be that time of the month

Sorry for being so irritable...

[Zulu]

Vietcong 2 working, too.
Also tested motoGP 3 (CD): working, but 95MB compressed, and like caki mentioned: not so useful anyway.

@caki
Made some tests with NFSMW; 1100096 sectors, last sector that must be in image is 902160. Before that there are four single sectors and two longer ranges (+ the stuff i missed), so leaving the last 1000 sectors isn't enough, at least for this title; you need Bushound for DVD's, too. Got it to 2,2MB compressed, of course i missed some gaps but they're really not worth it.

[neptun]

Is it possible that this method is working for starforce 3.6 also?Can you explain how to understand which sectors are important and which can be removed from the full backup image to make maxi image.

[Zulu]

Originally Posted by neptun

Can you explain how to understand which sectors are important and which can be removed from the full backup image to make maxi image.

Sorry, no, but Bushound can ; if you start logging at the right moment, the trial (which can only log 32 commands) is also ok for Safedisc as you principally only need the last 10 commands of the check to get the sectors.

EDIT:
@ziph
Just found, that there's a new version of sfdrvup (i guess it's 3.7, but not the very new 3.07.013): http://www.star-force.com/protection/users/

EDIT2:
@neptun
To be more precise:
Install Bushound, Reboot; Start Bushound, go to "Devices" and choose your physical/virtual drive; then go to "Settings", "Phases to capture": uncheck all but "CDB"; "Columns to display": uncheck all but "Data", now go to "Capture", start your Safedisc(DVD) game, wait 1 second (2?, half a?, yes, thats the tricky part, as i mentioned: only 32 commands can be logged with the trial), then hit run; end the game and save your log; do the hex->dez conversion

Scheme of the last commands of Safedisc(DVD) check:

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- 00 04 1a 1050
- 00 04 1b 1051
- 00 04 1c 1052
- 00 04 1d 1053
- 00 04 1e 1054
a 00 04 1f 1055
- 00 00 00
- 00 00 00
- 00 00 10
- 00 00 00
b 00 ca 63 51811
d 0d 90 69 888937
c 09 90 6a 626794
f 17 34 7b 1520763
e 12 b7 6f 1226607

Gaps:
a+1 to b-1
b+1 to c-1
c+1 to d-1
d+1 to e-1
e+1 to f-1
f+1 to last sector of DVD

... pretty logical