Prince Of Persia - The Two Thrones-USE THIS THREAD, Do NOT START another Thread!

[Alexandro]

Hi, I've just a question, turning off CD and Node with StarForce Nightmare is the equal to remove the ide data and power cables from the drives?

I'm asking it because I uninstalled alcohol and now I've just DT4, i mount the image, disable the cd and the node but it doesn't work.

I tried with the usb external drive trick too, but also this doesn't work.


Can anyone help me?

NOTE: I changed the title! Grumpy

[Vodux]

Hello to everyone, im new here. I have never had mamy problems with games, except with this one. Looks like the game is suppose to work uninstalling the IDE drives and mounting it using DT4. So i must be doing something really wrong. Like Alexandro, i tried using Starforce Nightmare and it also didnt worked for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
-V

[yo4]

if u have a laptop its easy...u can just slide cd drive out then use daemon tools to create virtual d:/ drive and SF protected games work fine...then when u done playin just remove virtual d:/ and slide cd drive back in...if anything u might have to run sd4hide. dont have to disable nothing.
if ya got regular tower pc then im sure its a pain in the butt to remove cd drive...wouldnt know tho... i got a laptop...lol.

[Jhamael]

I disabled all IDE drives in the device manager, they don't even appear in windows explorer anymore, then I used DT4 to create a virtual drive and it says I have to put the disc in another drive. :\

[Jhamael]

Here's a StarForce driver remover, if you don't intend to play The Two Thrones. The StarForce protection installs a driver on your system, that isn't really good. http://www.onlinesecurity-on.com/protect.phtml?c=55

Read more about StarForce, and about a petition against it: http://fileforums.com/showpost.php?p...&postcount=125

[GLH]

I moved the first 5 post to here from the PoP:TtT thread in the "Game Protection"-Subforum.

Please do NOT post questions&problems in this subforum!

[Joe Forster/STA]

Guys, for lots of tricks on circumventing copy protections, read the relevant entries of the FAQ. I hope these will help you!

[neptun]

Hi everybody.I think i found a way to play Prince of Persia the two thrones but it will work only for people which have only optical drives on the IDE controller.It is needed just to install Daemon Tools 4 and mark everything in Emulation and Options.Then mount image , install game , start game , reboot to install starforce drivers and here is the trick.After reboot you should disable your IDE controller through device manager ( not the optical drives but the whole IDE controller ) , mount image , start game and play.I will be very happy if someone try this method with other starforce games also.

Edit: I mentioned it earlier but here i mention it again with capital letters because it is important.THIS IS USABLE ONLY FOR PEOPLE WITH NONATA HARDDRIVES ( TESTED WITH SATA should work with USB and Firewire Harddrives also) You should HAVE ONLY OPTICAL DRIVES ON YOUR IDE CONTROLLER FOR THIS TO WORK

[dooler]

I have DVD-RW and a CD-RW . In devive manager it shows a Nvidia nforce2 IDE controller, and Primary IDE and Secondary IDE. Which ones should i disable? Is primary or nforce2 IDE controller of the hard disk?

[DABhand]

Primary IDE is usually for IDE HD's. Unless you have SATA HD's

Secondary IDE is more common for Cd/DVD drives

[Jhamael]

So if I have 2 primary IDE channels and 2 secondary IDE channels, I should only disable the secondary ones? Is there a risk of anything ending badly for my computer?

[Jhamael]

I have 2 drives BTW, one DVD/CD burner/reader, and the other is DVD/CD reader.

[Punishera]

Originally Posted by Alexandro

Hi, I've just a question, turning off CD and Node with StarForce Nightmare is the equal to remove the ide data and power cables from the drives?

I'm asking it because I uninstalled alcohol and now I've just DT4, i mount the image, disable the cd and the node but it doesn't work.

I tried with the usb external drive trick too, but also this doesn't work.


Can anyone help me?

@Alexandro: Try to Disable CH2 too

If you want to play the PoP:T2T you bought without a dvd
do it the same way as SCCT, it is exacly the same but just easier
NOT Alcohol 120% BUT Daemon Tools 4 is is much easier and not that much work

it ain't that hard, just use your Grey Cells in your head to figure the rest out

Good Luck

PS: No need to disconnect the IDE cable or anything
PPS: Programs needed are SFNightmare and SF Anti File System Blocker

[Alexandro]

I tried to use SFN, Sf*ck, Sfcure, but there's nothing to do.

I Disabled the node and the CD with sfn, but with device manager too, but the game doesn't work if I mount the image in dt4. (I uninstalled Alcohol)

I've got a usb dvd also, but if i run the game with a burned copy of the game it says to insert the cd into another reader.

Starforce F*cks!

[Jhamael]

Right now, SF Nightmare is useless against StarForce 3.6.10, which PoP uses. The only way is to physically disconnect drives. I heard DT4 might soon be able to emulate IDE drives, no longer about SCSI, which the curent version of SF that PoP uses probably won't be able to detect.