External USB Drive: The Ultimate to Circumvent all copy protections.

[TippeX]

nothing really new in that one joe, its been covered a few times in the forum, using the usb connection to an ide cd/dvd driver, allows you to disable it (ie: hotswap, or maybe hotplug.. cant remember the right term) easily, without requiring a reboot, then the protection (typically starforce) will then only run from scsi units, so dt/alc can 'fake' the protection from a good image.. think this 'trick' was closed with the later versions of starforce though, hence me saying it wasnt really 'new'

[Joe Forster/STA]

Then this trick is not supposed to work with newer games.

@kohan69: Can you list (at least, some of the newest of) the games you have successfully played from a backup with this setup?

[kohan69]

It works perfectly fine with Dark Messiah 1.02, and does not involve hotswapping or unplugging (Was TippeX referring to TOCA driver2 ?)

Method:
1. Mount Image file with DT_4.08HE_32bit , it does NOT have to be the MAXI, the poseden_MAXI image, the original (PROCYON's) image works fine. No emulation is enabled.

2. Right-clcik 'Safely-remove hardware' on the taskbar, select the external drive and click STOP.

3. Play


Before Dark Messiah, I used this method on X3: reunion (latest starforce?)