Caesar IV - Mini-Image HELP

[lord_lobster]

i cant get it to work i have tried a lot of thing and still no luck. i tried deamon tools the new one, with SecuROM_Loader_v7.26. it just says insert original insted of back up. i tried on alcohol 120 and thats just says conflict with emulator.


thanks in advance

[maciozo]

The MI was tested several times and always gave 100% flawless start of the game. However, configurations vary, so some people need to use CureROM, some Pr0t.St0p or EZ-Play, while some don't even need to use an anti-blacklister.
Try disabling completely alcohol's virtual cd/dvd drivers + make sure it's updated to the latest version. If still have you problems, make sure the DT drive's letter is BEFORE real drives and/or install BlindWrite 6 and enable EZ-Play.

[lord_lobster]

nope still didnt work it loaded once when i used blinwrite 6 and then i tried to play the game and it said invalid save. after that it went back to the wrong disc inserted. and insert original disc?

[Zulu]

Originally Posted by maciozo

If still have you problems, make sure the DT drive's letter is BEFORE real drives and/or install BlindWrite 6 and enable EZ-Play.

What ought to be the benefit of those suggestion ?

[Joe Forster/STA]

DABhand reported this idea once and it has since been added to the forum FAQ, too. Dunno, it may or may not be voodoo magic...!

[Dunno]

I figured out this way, but it's kinda tricky. (It doesn't always work at once, sometimes it does and after you have left the game and try to restart it, it doesn't work again in the same way as before. You have to alter some things - I explain that below.)


So, get Pr0t.St0p and the latest versions of Deamon Tools and SecuRom Loader.
Now it's about altering the order of the following steps:
- Start Pr0t.St0p and click "hide" (and "restore" when it didn't work).
- Mount the *.mds of the original image or of the mini image. (The *.mdf might be worth a try as well.)

Last steps:
- Start SecuROM Loader and select the C4EXEC.exe in the game directory.
- Hope that it works. Don't give up and keep trying.

PS: My virtual drive is BEHIND all the other drives.

[Zulu]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

DABhand reported this idea once and it has since been added to the forum FAQ, too. Dunno, it may or may not be voodoo magic...!

Ok, but it's very rare that a game only starts in first drive.
At least EZ-play has zero effect on a mounted image

@lord_lobster
- Unmount any other image
- Try with a full image to start the game using the AutoPlay function in Explorer, not with a shortcut - without any AB tool
- Or -after a reboot- try with a mini image using renamed Pr0t.St0p

No guarantee

[lord_lobster]

nope still nothing i made a full image and that worked but sometime it still say insert originol insted of back up. actually most of the time it says that

[The_Countess]

so far i've had pretty good success with daemontools latest version and Securomv7.26Loader (also known as procyon.exe)

load the image (i have a full image, mini not tested will do later)
mine is in the 2de drive btw
copy procyon.exe to the caesar IV folder.
start it up
and here is the thing, select caesarIV.exe and not C4Exec.exe
selecting c4exec.exe will get you the message insert original disk, but caesarIV.exe will work.

first time loading takes a long time
and it might not start the first time but so far its started every time i tryed it the 2de time. give it a bit of time to do this thing thou, open the task manager and keep a eye on CPU usage, if it drop to 0% for a while then you can try again.

once started typing is really slow for some reason but besides a few slowdowns at the verrry start of a game the game plays fine.

[ThomasU]

It doesn´t work for me. The only thing helped was to start the game with prot for about 40-50!! times with the full image.. This is very annoying.. Does somebody know help ?
sorry for my bad English

[Kobogo]

Doesen't work for me neither.... I basically tried all you've all said, except for Dunno's suggestion. When I start ceasarIV.exe with procyon (secuROM loader) the message "Please insert the original disc instead of a backup. See http://www.securom.com/no_orig_found for more details." appears.

when I start C4exec.exe with procyon, the message "Please remove disc from current CD/DVD drive and insert the original "Caesar IV" disc
in drive E:." appears.

I mounted the mini image (mcz-c4mi.mds) with daemon tools, disabled alcohol drives, without much success. I'm desperate enough to try switching the drive letters. But I won't do it just yet.

bloody hell. what am I missing?

[Kobogo]

update: i tried the pr0t.st0p, still nothing. messages appearing tend to vary regardless of the .exe file I'm trying to run, though. wazzthatmean?
I just might go nuts with this game.

[asheldon]

tested ALL of the above, game worked 1 time, and never again, not even after reinstall,
programm generates nt*dlll.dll and variuos other dlls each time it does not run, deleting these files doesnt help either, what is wrong??

someone plz can write a proper crack??


thx

[TippeX]

those dlls are from the anti blacklist software you're running... like procyon, asr etc.. NOT from the game..

[lord_lobster]

same here i got it to work once but never again. i hope that someone works out a good way soon.