Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

[PigBoT]

So a USB DVD drive will allow you to play your backed up game, but does anyone know if an IDE DVD drive with a Serial ATA adapter work?

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by PigBoT

So a USB DVD drive will allow you to play your backed up game, but does anyone know if an IDE DVD drive with a Serial ATA adapter work?

Works great on SATA drives, I backup my games then mount the image (after changing device names in Daemon) set RPMS on, close daemon from taskbar keeping emulation on. The image was on the SATA anyways, used Starforce Nightmare to disable 2nd channel (IDE DVD-rw/Rom), disabled node and disabled ATA.

Ran the game without a problem from the image

[t.foster73]

I'm pretty sure the next Starforce update will block SATA/RAID and USB tricks. I don't advise anyone to buy a USB housing just to play a handful of games. In my case, I managed to get one for £15 from my local computer shop, but these things normally retail for a lot more. This Starforce proliferation could seriously finish me off with PC games for good. I can understand (And to a certain degree, agree with) the publishers making backups very hard to create, but if I can't make a backup, using whatever workaround, then I don't buy the game, it's as simple as that. Starforce has really made my hobby of Gaming into a miserable pastime the last few months. It's just becoming ridiculous the steps you have to go to to keep you original in the CD cabinet, and frankly, I've nearly had enough of it. Perhaps with Memory becoming so cheap we may see games being produced on cartridges, but that's probably just wishful thinking.

I can't even say that Piracy is to blame, because without Pirates we wouldn't have NOCD fixes. Piracy and game sales have always been uncomfortable bedfellows, with kids pooling their money to buy a game because they can share it etc. Far from saving the PC gaming industry, I seriously think Starforce could finish it off for good. Console games are a little different because they tend to run much better, being made for cloned hardware. A friend of mine who owns a local games shop tells me that sales of Starforce protected games are down, when it is the opposite you would expect (or is it the developers that expect?). I'm not giving up just yet, but I suspect the end is near for my love of PC gaming.

[LoedD]

I don't this is the end of being able to backup software.
Not every publisher can effort to buy starforce protection cuz it's the most expencive one and after a while every protection gets cracked. So lets this happens as fast as possible

[!HaGaR!]

I bought this kinda adapter for just 10 € at ebay.
And its very functional. Back-Up a crashed Windows/Data Hardisk?
No more unplugging your own hds or open your system to add the crashed device to your system. (Okay, you may use PE-Software instead, but...)
Just if you need to add one more harddisk to your system for your own, you don´t need a raid-controller, a.s.o.

There are more reasons to buy such thingy than only for warez-users.
As I pointet out in another thread, I just confirmed Karlmuellers solution - using my own game to create the image of the dvd. (So please don´t blame me - I am no warez-kiddie for sure ;-D)

@SCVirus - I smell a little taste of warez-using in your posts...

Signed
Hagar

[LoedD]

Do you get an "please insert disc to another drive" error if you mount the SCCT image?
Im askin cuz I get another error. It just tells me that the key is probably correct but not for this version.
BUT I use european DVD and key of SCCT. Maybe this could be a step closer to the goal. Can anyone post me the us key please.
thx