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Old 20-09-2005, 16:46
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StarForce 3 ****Cracked****

Does anyone know why the Game "Restricted Area" which is a StarForce 3 protected game has a working crack on GCW and ***.
A-ray say's it's a StarForce 3 game so is that a mistake or has someone worked out how to crack StarForce 3 now. Hopefully it's the later, Does anyone know?
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Old 20-09-2005, 16:48
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Different types of SF3. You have easy version, and hard version. Protection difficulty depends upon how much money the game developers are willing to spit out
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Old 21-09-2005, 03:51
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No, not developers, the publisher...

Developers get like... er... crap(?) out of the final earnings. Out of the $50 a game costs, almost 80% of it goes to the publisher, and correct me if I'm wrong.

Imagine if they had to pay for the protection as well...
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Old 21-09-2005, 04:23
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Yep thats correct, publisher deals with distribution, they pay the developers a lump sum for the software then royalties on top per sale.
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Old 21-09-2005, 06:42
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The publisher earn most of the money you put into a game when you buy it, so its their "mission" to save the game from warez scene and illegal distribution. Guess what, they decide which copy protection to take...I think the developer doesnt want the games to be offered in inet illegal but they get the money from the publishers like Take2 or Vivendi,... and thats all, they get $ from the publisher and the publisher needs to get the money he gave the devs back with paying the game. Which isnt very good if you can get it on inet, kazaa, ... so they use StarForce 3
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Old 21-09-2005, 10:36
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The publisher can't always use the hardest of SF, it would simply kill the end users machine...imagine Doom III with the toughest version, VM stuff, Hidden filesystem and 50+ pcodes? Pretty much pull the trigger, order pizza, get a beer, get another beer, check what's on TV, take a wuzz, have sex with GF and then *maybe* watch the nice shot hitting the enemy....
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Old 21-09-2005, 11:55
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I always thought copy protections actually act before playing a game, at the game's startup...
StarForce is running ingame to check the physical and virtual drives ?
Yeah, now i guess why CSS and HL2 dont have SF, and Splinter Cell 3 was running like a 1930's movie with 15 frames ^^
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Old 21-09-2005, 16:40
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i think that we are in a good course. games like silent hunter 3 and soldiers heroes of WW2 have been cracked. reloaded team has done a terrific job against starforce protection. hopefully we will see a splinter cell chaos theory crack
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Old 22-09-2005, 01:24
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The Game Restiricted Area has NO Starforce Protection.

Its called Sysyphus or something, i know that because i have written a "Manual to crack RA on every update" because the Protection is a Simple Jump/NoJump Query .

Besides This Starforce Games have no defect sektors, the DIsc of RA has Lots of it.

Trust me my Friend, it is not Starforce on this Game.

But theres another Game called SUDEKI, it had Starforce and have been cracked. A No-DVD is on GCW and it acutually works.

Hope that clears some things up
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Old 22-09-2005, 05:14
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You're right, he probably meant "Area 51"
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Old 22-09-2005, 08:25
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Sudeki was not cr4ck3d.

Sudeki release was free in a magazine, he he it haven´t protection and was multilenguage only change speech command o use patch.

Sry my bad english stinky
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man! you got me exited with this thread title dammit

the only thing i noticed with star force games,is they release demos of games that run without the disc,ie brian lara 2005(has anybody even noticed this game has been released? not seen any kind of crack information,and its a awsome game) and other starforce games from teh codemasters website.
so if they can do it,then it has to be possible.
also again i read ultima did it with colin mcrae 5 bu ripping out certain things..why cant this be done with toca race driver 2,chaos theory and others..because i have these games,and dont want to run them from teh disc..and with the way my pc is situated (locked in a cabinet away from my 3 kids under the age of 5) i end up not playing any of them.
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Old 22-09-2005, 16:27
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Because Toca and SC has a shítload of stuff that need to be fixed first, this has been said a number of times before...before asking stuff about SF, think "custom Crap" FIRST...Basic is pretty easy, but the more stuff added (p-codes 10+, vm shíte, virtual FS) then you might have clue why it's so hard to reverse
(yes, most version DO get cracked but they are not always available for the public)

ooohhh...looks like***** runs fine with the crack on my machine

calm down, use the search button, the truth is out there
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Old 22-09-2005, 17:35
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Is this protection used ingame? I can play SCCT after the initial screen has dissapeared and i'm into the game.
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Old 22-09-2005, 18:59
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I think CD Check is only at the loading of the game, while antidumps (i.e. P-codes) are effective at all times. I am not sure tho, since I have never taken a look at a SF3 game. I try to avoid them for obvious reasons .
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