Working stronghold 2 Deluxe image.

[Dieselbrad]

Originally Posted by NightTorch

Tried to play stronghold 2 1.3.1, used to be able to get it to work using starforce nightmare + daemon tools reg. disc image, but now I can't get it to work anymore (since I've forgotten the exact steps I used to make it work). Tried these steps below but it gives me "Emulator Detected!" error 100% of the time. Am I doing something wrong?
1) Install Alcohol 120% latest version.
2) Reboot.
3) Burn Miniimage of stronghold 2 found from gamecopyworld using ALcohol with RMPS enabled, Enabled Sub-Channel burning for securom games, burnt at 4X speed (600K/sec) on a cd-r.
4) Uninstall Alcohol 120%.
5) Reboot.
6) Enabled JUST Rmps emulation in Daemontools 4.03 for 32-bit systems.
7) Insert burned copy of the mini image into the cd rom drive and load game.
8) Game doesn't load at all (gives the emulation detected error message here), tried "Pr0t.St0p v1.0", "Securom Loader" and a few other securom 7 loading software in addition. None worked.

On a side note, completely disabling the scsi drives or turning off daemon tools entirely gives me the "Unable to load security blah blah blah" error.


Edit: Oh, wait, nevermind. Found the problem. Turns out that there are some unrelated programs that are sometimes picked up as being emulation software (why my wireless mouse software counts as emulation I'll never know...). Ctrl+Alt+Delete and kill process on everything there that wasn't vital to my desktop and it ran perfectly.

Sorry I didn't see this post sooner to offer some help.

But I'm glad you caught the error. It is very important to limit the running processes when troubleshooting, you gave an excellent list of steps taken, which is rather rare on these forums for most.
Either way, I'm glad you found the problem, do you know what the process is that was causing the problem?
Others could be having similar issues with common software.

[noctrine]

Hey all,

Is there a way to mount the mini-image and have that work? The whole point for me is to not have to insert a CD

I've tried mounting it with A120 and DT4.03 and using CureROM but no dice.

Has anyone gotten 1.3.1 to run with nothing in the drive?

Thanks!