Battlefield 2142 1.5 No-DVD?

[TippeX]

oh, im sure such a person (or persons) exists, well and you don't need to undo the punkbuster check, just rename the exe as its running and copy in the virgin would do the trick ... you get the idea anyway, though it'd be a lot of effort for just one game (unless its generic of course)... and you'll get lots of whiney gits demanding (!) an update as/when the next update for the game comes along... so, as one individual who could do it, i simply wouldn't because 99.9% of the people who would use it would be thankless bastards... and anyone knowing such tricks should really keep them to a small bunch of people who appreciate the time/research involved and not just give it out to the thankless masses

just my 2c though...

[caki]

Of course there are always 2 sides to a coin. Might as well they use the maxi image then, much simpler than someone breaking his neck to make something like a punkbuster proof nocd patch...

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by Gloric

I've tried many number of things, many of the above all failing.

But just like you had "nothing change" overnight, the same thing happened to me last night again.
I just randomly went to start 2142 to show a friend what happens, and it god damn starts, and I played again for several hours. I turned it off twice and started it again, no issues.

I go to sleep, wake up today, try to run it again, haven't done ANYTHING at all, PC is in the same state as last night and PC has been on the entire time. Same god damn error.

Some random crap from this protection rubbish. The people who really want to rip them off for money will do it, whether we buy copies or not, now they're just fucking over legitimate buyers. Pathetic.: confused:

No use swearing and complaining on these forums, do that on theirs. And its the peeps who steal the games (have been for years) thats the cause of these over the top protections.

But you also have to remember, once you ran the game its data was then resident in the memory including the protection scheme, when you quit the game, perhaps the Protection scheme was still sitting in the memory and causing the game to fail to load.

This can be because of a software fault either on your end or their end, or even hardware fault like bad RAM.

[TippeX]

can also be a bad image, missing data, safedisc checks like securom, their checks vary in ranges depending on date/time etc.. so a tetchy image may work on 1 day, then not on the next, then 2 days after that and so on... thats what you get for using mini/maxi images... the protection can on occasions check different areas (or even the content / crc of those areas), and on a mini/maxi image the data for those areas may not be correct...

a prime example (albeit, its an old game, but i have fond memories of playing with its check, along with a few other people).. was worms world party.. where, upon connecting to the server a challenge / response style communication was made.. the server asked for the checksum / data from a specific sector (on day #1 it was sector 0x17171717 .. which didn't exist.. but it was a nice tag <team 17 ;p>, then on day #2 they changed it to another sector, varying it as/when they wanted.. so if you had a warez copy you were screwed for playing online)... similar 'tricks' are still in use these days, but not many people notice them...

[Gloric]

Just thought i'd update this old thread.

I fixed my problem, I reinstalled (the exact same version, most recent) of Daemon Tools (obviously what was conflicting) and it didn't give me the issue again.

Lest I remind, nothing to do with a pirate copy or anything, completely original disk.

[green7izard]

I tried to make a copy with blindwrite but i doesnt do a thing, blindwrite keeps saying that the dvd-rom is incomplete what can i do? can anyone help me?

[Sm1th]

Originally Posted by Quazimojo

i got 2142 working last night using blindwrite and just mounting the image in daemon tools and its working perfect so people may want to try that option as well and this is an image i made of my original , i did this like a year and half ago and used alchohol120 at the time and it worked but thought maybe they implemented new CP in it so i did some searching and came across blindwrite and i dont have to use yasu no disable anything or enable emulation go figure . i hate keeping discs in my laptop cause they get destroyed somehow or someway and im glad this worked . now if only i could find a way to get my alone in dark to work without having to spend 50 bucks on DTpro .

Originally Posted by Psipherious

Blindwrite image from above user Quazimojo confirmed working.

EDIT: ...I switched to the blindwrite image again and it still works fine without Y.A.S.U. using soley D-Tools with no emulation options on and a B6T (blindwrite 6) image. [...] All I can tell you is that the blindwrite one still works just fine so I'm going to delete the Alcohol one since the B6T clearly seems to work better...

Even though this is a very old thread, I'm desperate to get this working if anyone can help. For information sake: I have an original BF2142 DVD.

I'm guessing the following programs are being used:

• Blindwrite 6 - to create the "BF2142.B6T" DVD image from a genuine DVD
• D-Tools Lite - to get the game to run off of the image

To Quazimojo and Psipherious: Please let us know how you guys got Blindwrite to read the image??? Were you using a certain DVD drive, a certain version of Blindwrite, a certain OS, etc? It's totally awesome you both got this to work in such a simple way! But the rest of us are kind of left in the dark here.

Just as the last post from green7izard, I keep having the error from Blindwrite, "DVD-ROM, incomplete" which grays out the "Read" button. What's up with that? I've even tried using different DVD burners (Sony, Plextor), and even tried using my MacBook in Windows XP and I get the same problem. Please Help!

[Sm1th]

I got it to work. For some reason I was under the impression that I HAD to use Blindwrite to create the image. Not so! Here is what I did:

• Downloaded and installed the newest version of Daemon Tools Lite found here
• Created an image of my original BF2142 DVD using Daemon Tools Lite as seen here
• Mounted the image as seen here
• Launched the game, and it worked!

For the sake of useful info: I have a Sony Optiarc DVD burner. I hope this helps someone.

[DABhand]

Hmmm smells of spam to me :P

[TippeX]

agreed, the daemon tools links are ok i guess but the one to buy the sony optiarc burner is NOT needed at all and has since been edited

[Blazkowicz]

Also help site is the one from Lite which can't create this working image.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Originally Posted by Blazkowicz

Also help site is the one from Lite which can't create this working image.

It really can't? You mean, it does have that imaging function but it doesn't make working images, right? (Never used it anyway...)

[Blazkowicz]

It can create images, but not for protections (you can't select profiles).