Flat Out 2

[cdkiller]

They already cracked starforce 4

true... but both titles used SF v4.0.09.0 Basic without any drivers.

[nonspin]

Chill Everyone. the US version of Flatout 2 will be out in 3-4 weeks.

FL2 (US) -> Securom 7

[kosmiq]

I still have faith in that someday reloaded (or any other crackgroup) will figure out a faster way to remove starforce from games and create working cracks. Each succesful crack is a step closer in my eyes...

[kolle2332]

Originally Posted by nonspin

Chill Everyone. the US version of Flatout 2 will be out in 3-4 weeks.

FL2 (US) -> Securom 7

wow, that´s good news, indeed. where did you get that information from?

has anyone actually played the game yet? is it good?

[elcapitano]

Originally Posted by nonspin

Chill Everyone. the US version of Flatout 2 will be out in 3-4 weeks.

FL2 (US) -> Securom 7

can u guarentee that this is the case, i hope so as i cant wait to play this game

and do u have a release date for the US version?

[XdaywalkerX]

US publisher is Vivendi Universal - the publisher uses securom for his games.

http://www.sierra.com/en/home.html

http://flatout2.sierra.com/us/

german (or european) publisher is empire interactive

http://www.empireinteractive.com/

http://uk.store.empireinteractive.co...FDC4&s=FlatOut

... damned - i've got the german version of the game

US RELEASE: Aug. 2006 (pick up from official page)

[Rayder]

Originally Posted by nonspin

Chill Everyone. the US version of Flatout 2 will be out in 3-4 weeks.

FL2 (US) -> Securom 7

Do you know this for sure? I REALLY hope this is true. I'm not bothering with this game if it uses SF (I'm an SF boycotter), but I REALLY want this game badly. I loved FO1...I still play it often. FO2 is my most wanted game ever for the PC. Truth.

Gawd, I hope the American version IS Securom....I won't be afraid of buying and installing it then. I've gotten burned too many times by SF games already to purposely buy another one.

How sure are you of this info? Just because the American publisher generally uses Securom doesn't mean that this game will automatically use it. Are you just guessing based on the publisher's track record or do you KNOW?

Meh...either way, I guess we'll all find out when it releases here.....I'll either be deleriously happy to play the game or severely disappointed that I don't dare to install it on my PC.

I need confirmation on the protection to be used in the American version. My potential purchase of this game depends on it.

I'll be sure to keep a lookout here at GCW fileforums for the final determination on which protection is used on the American version.

Now I'm all excited for the game again...because of this rumor.

[neptun]

Originally Posted by cdkiller

true... but both titles used SF v4.0.09.0 Basic without any drivers.

I haven't tested with starforce 4 game on vista beta 2 because i don't have such game at the moment but i made some tests with Rise and Fall CaW which uses starforce 3.16.7 (not basic) and got some interesting results.My MB has nforce 4 chipset and my HDDs are sata so the optical drives are alone on the ide controller.Under windows XP SP2 i couldn't run the game with mounted image.My image is good , i also tried to unplug my drives , updated the sptd driver to 1.25 but no luck.Then i tried with vista beta 2.Installed daemon tools 4.03 with sptd 1.25 , mounted the same image that i used under xp with no luck and the game started.NO need to disconnect or disable optical drives or hide them any other way.Just mounted the full image and game worked.So i guess taht starforce 4 will also work under vista beta 2 with mounted full image.

[Karok]

I tried the proposed solution using a usb dvd drive. I bought an usb2ide adapter (google for ADU2IDE-N133), which was just cheap (with usb cable ~15 euro) and some blank dvds (TDK DVD-RW). Burned my image using blindwrite and everything works simply perfect. In addition, I will now be able to hot (un)plug my dvd and I dont have any ide drives connected.

Same procedure works for Rush for Berlin.

Thanks a lot for the tip

[bArtAA]

Originally Posted by neptun

Just mounted the full image and game worked.So i guess taht starforce 4 will also work under vista beta 2 with mounted full image.

What do you mean with the full image ?
I have downloaden a blindwrite image which contains 4 files, and i can mount one of them.

Did you make a new image yourself, and how did you do it (what program did u use) ?

I also have Vista beta 2 with deamon 4.03 and the 125 driver, but i can't get it to work (and also have sata-hdds)

[Joe Forster/STA]

How big is the image you've downloaded? If it's several hundred megabytes or a few Gigabytes then it's what we call a "full image".

[Zorbskie]

This is not just an ordinary version 4 of Starforce, this is Starforce frontline 4. It has been created with the help of piracy teams that have cracked previous versions of starforce. No attempt to bypass this protection software with any current emulator or burning program will work, (with the execption of the Blindwrite method). in the rumor mill there is word of a "NO-CD-EXE" for "Hard Truck Apocalypse" created by Reloaded, it is said that it also uses the same version of starforce. But also there is word of the next daemon tools release being able to work with this new starforce, lets hope that is true and that Reloaded will be able to utilise this future daemons tools for our convenience.

[Trdragons2005]

I have another way to play.
You have to create a Mini Image
Connect a Digital Camera in your computer with a usb handle
Put the mini image in a Digital Camera
Emulate and play

The problem is create a Mini Image(mds)


I try to speak in english
I'm speak portuguese
I'm from Brazil

[bantu86]

Originally Posted by Trdragons2005

I have another way to play.
You have to create a Mini Image
Connect a Digital Camera in your computer with a usb handle
Put the mini image in a Digital Camera
Emulate and play

The problem is create a Mini Image(mds)


I try to speak in english
I'm speak portuguese
I'm from Brazil

works? where can i find the mini image?

[theholyone]

old but

Originally Posted by cdkiller

true... but both titles used SF v4.0.09.0 Basic without any drivers.

yeah and that SF4 was easier than 3.7