Black hawk down & staying down

non-fiction · #1 28-04-2003, 18:49

this game may have been mentioned before but I don't see a thread at the mo, so I apologise in advance if I am going over something covered already - but I have only just got the game you see.

I am having great difficulty making a "Working Copy" - as I have had on other SECUREROM NEW protected games.

I have THOROUGHLY gone through the sticky on this protection & still have trouble. I was hoping someone could provide an idioit proof blind write (or whatever - alcohol - cloneCD?) method with settings that have worked for you.

I am using a Memorex 24 MAXX CDRW Drive - could this be the failing point. As I said before I have tried many times using the ever trusted stickies and I am no fool with the use of this equip and s/ware but I simply can't get a working burn.

Please anyone who has succeded could you just jot down the method & settings you used - many thanks - non fic...

GLH · #2 28-04-2003, 21:40

Read the FAQ on top of this board and you will come to the clue: Noone is able to make a working backup of a Securom New 4.8x protected game.

You can use Alcohol 120% to make image of the cd on your harddrive (select Securom New* 4.8x from the Dropdown-Menu). Burn that image to a CD-R and you will be able to play it on a PC with Alcohol installed (RMPS Emulation have to be swittched on).

Or you can mount that image in a virtual drive and play it without a CD (Securom Emulation have to be swittched on).

GLH · #3 28-04-2003, 21:44

...or you use this instructions --CLICK ME!-- to create a backup cd with an update and the crack on it. So you have to install the game and before playing you have to update the game and overwrite the exe with the cracked one...

non-fiction · #4 29-04-2003, 17:30

thanks for your help guys, yeah I have the "no-cd fix ", so it's not a prob to run the game without media, it was a copy cd I was trying to make - I'll try the clone drive way just coz it sounds interesting but will it work with future patches without "fixed" EXEcutables.

As a spin off from my attempts, while looking into SecureROM I've discoved that the latest versions of SecureROM will detect if you have a clone drive & refuse to run if they find one - even with the genuine disk!!!

setup a vitual drive with CloneCD and try playing devestation ( if you can stand it!!! ) with the GENUINE CD (I've only tried the UK release) and see what I mean. - Boxed copies won't run with the CloneCD tray installed

Seems to me Copy protection bypass for Software copied for the purpose of backup is turning into a tug-of-war and the corporates have just added a new teammember. Sadly, NO-CD cracks look like the future.

- non fic -

P.S.

The whole thing is kind of ironic, as making BACKUP copies of owned software is legal ( in the UK anyway, I dunno about elsewhere) - But no-CD cracks alter or completely replace copy-writed code which IS illegal and the game makers don't seem to be doing anything about that - if they could, (these crack groups are ****-hot talented - hope you guys have good high paid jobs) .

non-fiction · #5 29-04-2003, 18:00

thanks for your help guys, yeah I have the "no-cd fix ", so it's not a prob to run the game without media, it was a copy cd I was trying to make - I'll try the clone drive way just coz it sounds interesting but will it work with future patches without "fixed" EXEcutables.

As a spin off from my attempts, while looking into SecureROM I've discoved that the latest versions of SecureROM will detect if you have a clone drive & refuse to run if they find one - even with the genuine disk!!!

setup a vitual drive with CloneCD and try playing devestation ( if you can stand it!!! ) with the GENUINE CD (I've only tried the UK release) and see what I mean. - Boxed copies won't run with the CloneCD tray installed

Seems to me Copy protection bypass for Software copied for the purpose of backup is turning into a tug-of-war and the corporates have just added a new teammember. Sadly, NO-CD cracks look like the future.

- non fic -

P.S.

The whole thing is kind of ironic, as making BACKUP copies of owned software is legal ( in the UK anyway, I dunno about elsewhere) - But no-CD cracks alter or completely replace copy-writed code which IS illegal and the game makers don't seem to be doing anything about that - if they could, (these crack groups are ****-hot talented - hope you guys have good high paid jobs) .