Rise And Fall: CaW - Starforce 3.7

prokrim

I'm having trouble getting my backup dvd image to work. Whatever I do I cant bypass the starforce protection
Is there anyway you can use your backups of a starforce 3.7 protected game?

Womble

One of the few ways to get a StarForce backup to work is,

1. Create an Image with latest Alcohol 120% using DPM with high precision.
2. Mount it using latest Daemon Tools available.
3. Unplug any IDE optical devices present in your system. Sometimes may help a small utility called StarForce Nightmare, but this trick won't work correctly on all systems.
4. Play.


other than that I don't recall many other working options.

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prokrim

What are IDE optical devices? my cd/dvd players. And what do you mean with unplugging them? You mean opening my computer and physicly unplugging them, if thats what you mean I have no clue on how to do it

And then would there be any meaning in doing a backup, opening and unplugging my dvd/cd players everytime I want to play is to much hazzle.
Is there no other way?

neptun2

I also have problems with this game.The method i used for POP T2T and Toca 3 ( nforce 4 MB + sata harddrives + disable pata controller , mount and play ) is not working anymore.The starforce version is 3.7.16.4. I noticed that the message displayed by starforce is always "Failed to identify the disc".This message is displayed even if the controller is not disabled.The previous starforce versions gave message "Insert disc in other drive" right after double clicking on the game .exe file in this case and the mounted image was not even checked.Now with this version it looks like the mounted image is always checked ( no matter if there is real drives connected to the system or not ).I am not sure what exactly is the reason for that but i have some ideas:

1. Wrong DPM info ( bad .mds fle ).Possible but not very likely.I used the same hardware ( NEC 3540 ) and software ( Latest alcohol ) and settings ( dpm high and low extraction speed ) that worked fine for POP T2T and TOCA 3.

2. Some new kind of blacklisting that prevents alcohol and daemon tools 4.0.3 ( i tried with both of them ) to emulate correctly the disc topology.


I can't test with unplugging of the optical drives now so if somebody can make this test please tell us if it is working.If anyone managed to make working backup of this game please tell me how you managed to do that.

prokrim

I think I saw somewhere that daemon tools and alcohol is blacklisted in SF 3.7. Right now I don't see any other option than waiting for the new version of daemon tools

*edit* Just got it confirmed that atleast daemon tools is indeed blacklisted on SF 3.7...
http://www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=83&id=769
"The current release of FrontLine makes it impossible to run a protected product from a copy made by any known disc emulator including Daemon Tools 4.0."

neptun2

Update: It looks like with this version of starforce it is not possible to use virtual drive and image.Currently neither daemon tools nor alcohol can cheat this newest version of starforce.

Crackman

Sorry, sorry, sorry, i don´t do this again.
Thanks for the information!!!

eltranquil

After the edit it is much better.

ET

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