Hacking Starforce 3 with BIOS

[RKR]

This only works for Motherboards with VIA chipset. (I’m serious, don’t even try this on other MB).

Original review in original language HERE.

WARNING: WCPREDIT is a very powerful tool witch edits BIOS in HEX language and allows almost anything. This means there is one hundred and one ways to KILL YOUR HARDWARE. So do this at your own risk. If something doesn’t go as it’s written in the review, don’t do this.

The way how Starforce 3 works:

1. First it detects all the IDE controllers and obtains the ID numbers from windows database.
2. Connects to those IDs (in bios mode) to check the CD/DVD media. (Daemon virtual drives are virtual SCSI drives and don’t belong to any controller, that’s way it’s so hard to hack it.)

The main idea of this is the availability of dual identification numbers and ability to change them. What we are going to do is put a bug in BIOS. We will give two different IDs to the same IDE port. Starforce will get the ID Windows uses, ant try to connect to the same ID in BIOS mode, and it will fail here. Good thing that after a failed connection it thinks that there are no IDE ports and starts the game.

Liked it? Now give a second thought and only go further if you know what you will be doing. Because the show begins:

1. First download the software needed HERE or HERE.

2. Extract the files and start the wcpredit.exe, then press CTRL+D and select the IDE port your CDs/DVDs are connected to. You should see something like this:



3. Take a look at the Device ID number. This should read something like 0571 (number varies depending on MB), and the same number but in other order should be found in the 03-02 and D3-D2 sections. If these numbers don’t show up, this trick won’t work for you.

4. If everything is OK, then let’s go further. Press the D2 section (71)/ press edit/ the number in HEX section/ and type in the new number (add +1; if you had 71, then type 72). Then press save. Agree that you really know what you are doing.

5. If your computer didn’t explode, then you can mount the image in Daemon tools and start the game. If even the game works, then you can write down these numbers: PCI bus, Device, Function and the new number you typed in (data). (register is D2)

6. Now turn off wcpredit and start instDD.exe It installs the wcprset. After reboot start WCPRset.exe then press add and fill in the numbers you have (don’t mistype them!!!) and press OK, check “start” and OK again. Now restart the computer again and pray for the game to work.

This works great for TOCA 3, but GTR: FIA GT doesn’t.

If you try this please write if it worked and write what games it worked with.

Sorry for all my Anglish.