Scrapland by American McGee

[bruuno117]

I finally got this thing to work, it kinda helped when i got both my optical drives on the secondary channel, after i mounted the image with d-tools and ran star******, it just ran like it was supposed to. So thanks for all the advice, without it i would never have figured it out

but now im having a problem with buffer underrun when i burn cds :/ well not really, smartburn takes care of them, but it didnt happen before for some reason .

[CH4R1ie]

You're welcome

About buffer underruns, try to press unpatch blacklist on all starforce versions several times to make sure it reverts the settings. You may also press enable drives several times as well. Let's hope it solves it.

[MaPomme]

Originally Posted by bruuno117

I finally got this thing to work, it kinda helped when i got both my optical drives on the secondary channel, after i mounted the image with d-tools and ran star******, it just ran like it was supposed to. So thanks for all the advice, without it i would never have figured it out

but now im having a problem with buffer underrun when i burn cds :/ well not really, smartburn takes care of them, but it didnt happen before for some reason .

Starfock is a hard hack, the OS isn't intended for temporary IDE drives. Then, after Scrapland and before burning, i reboot.

Bonjour chez vous,

Ma Pomme

[Elazordis]

Hi all

Thanx for explains, but I don't succeed in launching scrapland. Nothing works, and I've done everything several time.
It drives me crazy !
Shall I use alcohol 120% instead of daemon tool 3.47 ?

Thx

[whoeverxxx]

After reading through all this, I think I'll use the original disc or more than likely live without the game.. Disconnecting drives to get a game to work without the original disc sounds like more work than tring to keep the original discs from getting all scratched up.

[oJoJo]

1. Go to your Control Panel
2. Doubleclick on System
3. Now click on the tab labeled Hardware
4. Then click on Device Manager

5. Under System devices you will find many names listed, but the only 2 you need to write down are "PnP BIOS Extension" and "Plug and Play BIOS Extension". "PnP BIOS Extension" belongs to Daemontools virtual drive and "Plug and Play BIOS Extension" belongs to Alcohol 120% virtual drive. Now you can close the Device Manager.

6. Go to your Windows directory and open regedit.exe (Registry Editor)

7. Now find this entry in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\SYSTEM

8. Under SYSTEM you will find numbers like "0000" "0001" "0002" "0003" etc etc. Now click on any of this numbers and look for "DeviceDesc". "DeviceDesc" contains a description for the device. If you just have Alcohol 120% virtual drive installed you have to find the number that contains the "DeviceDesc" with the text "Plug and Play BIOS
Extension" next to it. And if you just have Daemontools virtual drive installed you have to find the number that contains the "DeviceDesc" with the text "PnP BIOS Extension" next to it. If you have both programs installed it speaks for it itself that you have to find both numbers.

9. Now to the important part. If for example the number "0002" contains the "DeviceDesc" with the the text "PnP BIOS Extension" next to it, you rightclick on the number 0002. Next you click on "Permission...". A window should appear. Under the header "Security" you first have to click on "SYSTEM". Then a menu with the name "Permissions for SYSTEM" appears below. In this menu you will see the the text "Read" with two choices next to it (Allow or Deny). Click on "Deny" then on OK and then on Yes. Do the same for the number that contains the "DeviceDesc" with the text "Plug and Play BIOS Extension" next to it. If you have done everything correctly "PnP BIOS Extension" and "Plug and Play BIOS Extension" should not not appear any more in the Device Manager under System devices.

10. After you have done this you can play all new starforce games by mounting the mini image. By the way dont forget to disconnect your CD or DVD-drives or to disable them(star**** 0.83). And if you have any other virtual drives other than Alcohol or Daemontools installed, just uninstall them!

11. Enjoy another bunch of Starforce protected games!)

[bobon]

This is where I stand...

1. I changed system permissions on the daemontools and alcohol registry keys, and now they don't appear on device manager

2. I'm using starduck 0.83 and I tried to patch blacklist on .49 and .63, and also generate a link - to no avail. starduck definately disables my cdrom (it disappears from my computer)

What am I doing wrong? I hope some forum guru can help...

TIA

[CH4R1ie]

You might not need to listen to Mr. Cut & Paste (oJoJo) and skip all of his steps. It is possible, that you are doing everything fine, because Star**** is still in beta status and the project is currently frozen. You might try patching only one of the StarForce versions. If it still doesn't work, you might try using StarForce Nightmare from http://www.project-star****.tk/. I haven't tested it, so I don't know, if it works.

[BarryB]

StarForce NIGHTMARE 1.01 - Only works on WinXP - Win 2003 Server!!

One warning, DO NOT CLICK the Disable ATA button unless you like Blue Screens

This new Anti-Starforce tool seems to deal with problems inherent in StarF*ck, namely optical devices on mulitple IDE channels!

It allows disabling not only 1 or both IDE channels, but all CD/DVD drives or an individual Master/Slave drive on Primary/Secondary IDE or a combination of any Master/Slave drive on Primary/Secondary IDE!! So you should be able to disable your drives no matter where they are located on your IDE channel!

Just make sure you know what IDE channel your CD/DVD drives are on and if they are Master or Slave and don't disable your Hard Drives by mistake, you could crash your system

On the downside, this tool has no command line options and no automatic link generator, meaning you have to manually mount you mini images, run SFN and click the appropriate button to disable you drives depending where your optical devices are located, wait for them to be disabled and then run your game! Hopefully, given time, I would think an automatic link generator will be included.

I tested this with Scrapland:

1. Mounted the mini image in Daemon Tools.
2. As I have both DVD-ROM/DVD-Writer on Secondary IDE I clicked Disable ch2 in SFN. This seemed much faster at disabling my drives than the Disable CD or Sc.Mas-Sl Off options!
3. Ran the normal game link to run Scrapland.

It worked!

Seeing as StarF*ck works perfectly well for me (and has the benefit of the link generator) SFN is really only for those who can't get StarF*ck working!

So I'll be sticking to StarF*ck for now

[bobon]

I don't think starduck is my problem - I can see my cdrom drive disappear from my computer, and its a standalone on its ide channel anyway (I have 1 sata drive and 1 cdrom on ide). No combination of patching got this to work...

Is there a specific order I need to follow with patching/disabling/installing the game? I'm starting to think this will never work...

Thanks in advance

[Killa[B]]

i read all the posts in this thread so far and i read some others referingt to starbuck and stuff.
i crashed my computer a few times with startruck, till i found out/remembered, that my optical drive is secondary master. (i have another HDD on secondary slave. thats why my compute crashed, i think.)

now i tried sfn and disabled just the optical one.
the miniimage is in my one and only daemon-drive.
i tried to start the game, but the security thingy wingy just keeps crashing . . . i think.
i dont know.
the task gets a freeze and then i just killed it.

is there no other way to get this one running, or do i have to wait for a "real" crack to get this thing to work w/o the cd? but starforce IS crackable, right? =)

i would be happy for any suggestions or ideas how to get it running.
if anyone needs any infos bout my system, just ask . . . =)

[BarryB]

The ideal setup would be to have your Hard Drives on the Primary IDE Channel and your Optical Drives on the Secondary IDE channel, that way you can determine if this setup is better for running SF games or your system config is just not compatible with StarF*ck or SFN!

[twinnie]

Has anybody managed to get the german version of Scrapland working with the miniimage?
I have tried everything mentioned in this thread and SFNightmare seems to work, but the copy-protection-software is asking for another key???
Could it be they used different keys for the english and german version?

[Killa[B]]

Originally Posted by BarryB

The ideal setup would be to have your Hard Drives on the Primary IDE Channel and your Optical Drives on the Secondary IDE channel, that way you can determine if this setup is better for running SF games or your system config is just not compatible with StarF*ck or SFN!

my problem is, that i have 3 HDDs and 1 optical.
that way i HAVE TO mix the optical with the HDD on one cable. (360gb and still not enough space . . .) =)

more ideas? =)

[BarryB]

Originally Posted by Killa[B]

my problem is, that i have 3 HDDs and 1 optical.
that way i HAVE TO mix the optical with the HDD on one cable. (360gb and still not enough space . . .) =)

more ideas? =)

I used a spare PCI IDE-Controller I had lying around that supports 4 IDE drives, this way I can add extra HD's and still keep my Secondary IDE for optical drives.

ATM, I have 2 HD's on Primary, 2 optical drives on Secondary and 1 HD on PCI Controller, both StarF*ck and SFN work for me! I also have a VIA KT333 chipset MoBo, not Nforce, so that helps too!

As for the German version not working with the English mini image, that's probably due to SF's CD Key being tied to the German game and CD, so you can't use another language CD as that will have a different CD key I think.