Battlefield 2142 1.5 No-DVD?

[Psipherious]

Got my BF2142 1.50 to work without CD in Drive, running off a maxi (full) DVD-image.

Quite simply, all I did was use Alcohol 120 to create the image in it's mds format. I used the image creation wizard and simply selected SecuROM which automatically sets DPM to High (you'll see when you're in the wizard window). I did not check the option to skip errors (and I didn't get any errors during the image creation process).

After the image was created, closed Alcohol - did *not* use Alcohol's image emulation, I just disabled it.

I got the very latest version of Daemon Tools v4 and installed that. Then I downloaded another addon to Daemon Tools called Y.A.S.U. Also available on D-Tools website in the addons section. v1.4.7080.

Mounted my mds image with D-Tools, enabled SecuROM emulation.

Ran Y.A.S.U. and cloaked my drives, I just left the default SafeDisk 4.x and SecuROM 7.x cloaking checked off (and hit the Cloak button).

Minimize Y.A.S.U. (you have to leave it running).

Execute game, and voila, she works. Doesn't come back with the stupid error that you can't run the game from a backup copy of the disc or any crap like that, it just works.

The Y.A.S.U. cloaker was the missing component for me, I tried all sorts of other ways to get this to work with Alcohol emulator, with D-Tools alone, it kept giving me errors on starting up 2142 that I couldn't use a backup copy of the DVD. After installing Y.A.S.U. and cloaking my drives and doing nothing else different, Battlefield ran without an issue.

Good Luck!