soldiers of ww2 emulated perfectly

[_brat_]

Originally Posted by sorinu

Yes, its working if you disable from Windows.

go to control panel ---> double click System ---> go to tab Hardware ---> device manager ---> right click your optical drives and choose disable

!!! It is not necesary to disable your virtual drivers (from alcohol, clonecd or deamon) !!!

After this mount the file from sgtshaft and thats all.
The game is working perfectly.
If you get some errors you need to clean starforce **** with StarforceClean.
After reboot try again to play the game.

All credits to sgtshaft. Nice work man.
When you give us a solution to toca racer 2 DVD?

I was try the method of sgtshaft. It doesn't work at russion version
from 1C . I'll try this method, but i think i need to wait the no cd .exe

[stamla]

In windows XP it doesn+t seem to matter if you disable the cd drives in bios.
Win xp overrides, so you need to pull out the IDE-cables inside the puter.

Thanx a lot for the help!

[sgtshaft]

Originally Posted by sorinu

All credits to sgtshaft. Nice work man.
When you give us a solution to toca racer 2 DVD?

Thanks but I dont deserve the credit.
It was first posted on a chinese forum by some anonymous guy.
But some good news, it is a generic hack it can be used on all starforce games. Alas toca might prove a bit more difficult as its on DVD.

[Tootzie.]

Originally Posted by sgtshaft

Thanks but I dont deserve the credit.
It was first posted on a chinese forum by some anonymous guy.
But some good news, it is a generic hack it can be used on all starforce games. Alas toca might prove a bit more difficult as its on DVD.

Well, Im not so sure about that.. I downloaded Kill.Switch, but this crack doesnt work for that one, which also has the starforce protection ****. If you happen to find a crack for it on some chinese forums, please email me ([email protected])

[sgtshaft]

Originally Posted by Tootzie.

Well, Im not so sure about that.. I downloaded Kill.Switch,

No warez please Tootzie!!

Heres some intresting info on starforce.

1. Starforce never even bothers to check toc, if there's data at all on the cd, atip.

2. Seems like blacklisting was done by checking if specific data is at the same time read from hdd when checking process is taking place. Ofcourse image file was at the same time read when vitual cd was checked - thus it never actually _specifically_ blacklisted alcohol/dt virtual drives, it was a very general blacklist... The fact that images mounted over lan passed cd-checks also fits well into this theory...

3. Starforce checks very very limited area of cd to get it's dpm and if dpm seems alrigh it doesn't ever bother to go farther. So seems like starforce developers felt overly safe having their low-level access drivers and thinking not even some MOST primitive checking is needed except dpm...
Maybe all my presumptions are crap wrong and it's just some strange bug produced by removing all files.



So here's what you do to get SHOWWII working:
Make image with starforce 1/2/3 profile, get dpm at low speed. Run your favourite iso editing software Ultraiso/Winiso etc. I used ultraiso. Now delete all files from the image. Click save as, save as bin. For reference, the resulting file size should be 68 208 bytes. Trash the cue. Now get original mds, rename the bin to original mdf. Now you have a mini image that's sufficient to make starforce happy consisting of original mds and mdf with all files removed... So starforce won't see that specific date deing read from hdd at the same time... Now do the usual stuff - unplug physically/disable in bios all ide cd/dvd devices, mount the image on alcohol/dtools virtual drive and it'll work.



Thanks 2 Madk9 nforce forum

[cheborra]

I´ve tried with the starforce cleaner, and it still freezze in the game menu!!!

[sorinu]

cheborra I´ve tried with the starforce cleaner, and it still freezze in the game menu!!!

your computer have some problems. Maybe the videocard it is old or the procesor its to hot.

[plutonick]

The 'crack' is not working for me either.
I am using windows xp. I removed the drives from the bios, but windows kept finding them, so I disabled them from 'device' manager.

However when I mounted the file into the daemon tools drive, and tried to run the game, i got the same error message = wrong disk or something.

I removed the copy protection using safeclean, rebooted, tried to run the prob, it prompted me for a reboot in order to complete the installation, and then I got the same error I was always getting... bummer

[Nikeless]

Sorry but i dont understand ...

-> i got the Image
-> CLEAN starforce
-> disable Drives
-> bind the image in Daemon Tools
-> Reboot
-> Want to start " Error NO DISK INSERTED "


What to do ?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hey Nikeless,

Unless you enabled "Automount" in Daemon Tools, you gotta mount images again and again, after each reboot!

Joe

[Nikeless]

I know ... it was on auto mount and it doesnt work pls help me i dont know what i did wrong ...

[rebabevets]

I have my hardware disabled in bios as well as winxp..and neither cdrom or extra harddrive I have show, so at this point I have to presume they are disabled..I use daemon tools 3.46, I mount your file but it does nothing...

are the file and the program have to be installed in a certain directory, I mount your file but nothing happens if I mount your file and then the game,
it just looks for the cd key. If I am doing something wrong please advise.

rebabevets

[lostandfound]

rebabevets - it wouldn't work for me either until I actually unplugged the power from the cd drives.

[Sensi]

Originally Posted by Jatta

1. Uninstall any previous installation of the game.
2. Uninstall starforce; use starforce cleaner. (sfclean.exe).
=> One reboot. Turn off your PC

3. unplug the alimentation of your cd/dvd device(s)

Originally Posted by Jatta

4. Mount and install the game with Daemon tools 3.46.
5. Mount the DISC_1.mds image with Daemon tools 3.46.
6. Run the game => One reboot.

7. Unmount your game images that you use to install the game, otherwise you will get the cd-key error, just keep the DISC_1.mds mounted

Originally Posted by Jatta

8. Run the game. => Enjoy!

ty folks

Regards,
Sensi

[dr_pat]

I also play it on a laptop...
When the game is installed
1) mount mini-image with daemon tools
2) click on safely remove hardware
3) stop the cd-rom
4) launch the game
5) play

easy