Need For Speed Most Wanted - SafeDisc v4 - HowTo???

[Kanalradde]

I tried to create a maxi image:

• Created a normal image from CD 1 => image is accepted by NFSMW/SD4.
• Zeroed out the data part => "Insert correct CD"
• Restored the image => image is accepted again (wasn't luck or random)
• Zeroed out just the content of the big ZIP file "0_compressed.zip" => "Insert correct CD"

The error message appears quite quickly, so SafeDisc shouldn't have done a CRC check.

Does SafeDisc check the data with a kind of spot tests?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Whoops, sorry then, I guess that that thread needs a bit of update. See the "how to make your own mini image" thread then. To get a maxi image, just don't abort the image making process of Alcohol 120% (that would give you a mini image). Good luck!

[Am Shagar]

@tomatomanz

It means your image is bad. MDS file didn't match with the MDF one.
Don't know why, maybe it's not the original cd you have..................



@XtremeX

Oups, yeah i forgot, it's cos my cd/dvd drives are almost always unpluged, so i don't need it.



@Kanalradde

New safedisc 4.60 check the size of the data on the disc, it's why we can't make mini image anymore.
But i never make a maxi one, prefer making a backup instead, i like to beat protection by myself.

[tomatomanz]

Originally Posted by Am Shagar

@tomatomanz

It means your image is bad. MDS file didn't match with the MDF one.
Don't know why, maybe it's not the original cd you have..................

Cant be.. coz i tried making image of my RavenShield game, and i get the same error..

Btw, both my NFS : MW and RavenShield are original games

Any other ideas guys?..

Cheers

[varkey]

anyone? somebody pls make a maxi image

[Farshid420]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

Whoops, sorry then, I guess that that thread needs a bit of update. See the "how to make your own mini image" thread then. To get a maxi image, just don't abort the image making process of Alcohol 120% (that would give you a mini image). Good luck!

Thanx for the info bro, but how do you make that into a mini image then? Do you compress it somehow, possibly using windows compression as you said in the other thread?

Anymore info would really help here

[Kanalradde]

Originally Posted by Am Shagar

@Kanalradde

New safedisc 4.60 check the size of the data on the disc, it's why we can't make mini image anymore.

I tried to create a *maxi* image, but the copy protection doesn't eat it.

[n4pst3r]

there is a easy round this BUY THE GAME

[Kanalradde]

Originally Posted by n4pst3r

there is a easy round this BUY THE GAME

And then I can play without CD or image?

[n4pst3r]

if game companys intended us to play the games with out the cd then they would have supplied them with the game

[henry]

Originally Posted by n4pst3r

if game companys intended us to play the games with out the cd then they would have supplied them with the game

If God had intended us to fly he'd have endowed us with wings.

Disks are merely a medium for distributing the software, once installed it should be put in a secure place.

But this isn't possible as it is needed to run the software, not for any data on it, but to check that you have it.

So the point of this is to make it possible to run the software and keep the original in a safe place....not as intended.

[Diranar]

Daemon Tools V4... have i more to say... NO

[jhuk]

Im fed up with all these goody two shoes peeps crying "warez fiend hunt him down", unless the peeps asking for help admits he had a warez copy, you should assume its legit, after all EVERYONE uses warez, just not allowed to talk about it here.

Ok now ive got that of my chest, using a disk in rom tray alltime is so year 20th centuary like Star Wars Racer etc, i have lots of games and i cant be bothered to swap disks all time, i got 4-5 games installed which is dumb as i should finish 1 at a time i know lol.

Quake 4 new patch removes need for disk so did Unnreal 2004 Tour patches long ago.

If you got a big HDD like me and dont mind giving home to a 2-4gig image then simple make image of your game with say alcohol (im told iso buster or ultra iso will too) cause game aint protected that much for making copy yo HDD, its when you try to burn the protection makes a coaster, FarCry was first to do this that i came across, i had to back up my original (incase of lose/damage) keeping the ISO i made as data on a dvdrw, if i tried to actually burn the ISO as a game it would not install.

I have 5 games i installed as i aready have said so it would be PIA to change rom alltime, and no matter what any anal peeps say, the rom trays through time scratch the disks, i would have though times would have changed and media would be sat in tray label side down or a rubber /foam seal on tray to cushios disk (bet we have all ejected a tray at one time and the media is still spinning/skuffing on the tray.

[BarryB]

If you install the New Daemon Tools 4 then Virtual CD hiders like SR7Stop and Virtual CD Hide stop working, at least for me!

You have to use the old Starforce Nightmare to disable your CD/DVD drives instead of the virtual CD hiders.

[caki]

Originally Posted by Kanalradde

I tried to create a maxi image:

• Created a normal image from CD 1 => image is accepted by NFSMW/SD4.
• Zeroed out the data part => "Insert correct CD"
• Restored the image => image is accepted again (wasn't luck or random)
• Zeroed out just the content of the big ZIP file "0_compressed.zip" => "Insert correct CD"

The error message appears quite quickly, so SafeDisc shouldn't have done a CRC check.

Does SafeDisc check the data with a kind of spot tests?

Maxi images can only be made on DVD's "for now". I am ****ing around with the bugger to make a maxi image from a CD, and I am having some success. Expiriment a bit with what can be 00'd out and what not, you will see what I mean.