Hi. Alright - I’ve read most of the posts by the admins and mods on the topic and followed the instructions they gave (in my inexperienced view) to the letter but NOLF2 is still not running on my copies. So its not like I am posting redundant information which the admins have said they will delete. I know that it has been posted that if it doesn’t work after following those instructions, then maybe its your system - its not made up to copy it in the first place. I doubt it, my system is pretty standard:
System configuration:
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[li]LiteOn 40125 with a ZS0P firmware.
[/li][li]CloneCD v4.2.0.2
[/li][li]BlindWrite v4.3
[/li][li]P3 866MHz
[/li][li]NVidia TNT2 M64 4xAGP
[/li][li]LiteOn LTN483S 48xmax (plain CD reader)
[/li][li]3-D analyse V2.1 TnL emulator (as my video card is pretty dated)
[/li][li]128Mb RDRAM
[/li][li]OS Win 98 SE
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Yes, I know its a pretty dated system but I don’t think thats the problem - I was able to run it with the original CD. I will be getting a new system as soon as I figure out what to do with my old one - probably use it as my gateway for the internet while my new system is safely physically disconnected from the ‘cannon fodder’ current system. It is still too good to trash as its decent enough for most simple tasks like word processing or spreadsheets but is a real pain for CAD or Finite Element stuff like Pro-Engineer or Pro-Mechanica.
I’ll start off by stating exactly what I’ve tried and what happened.
First attempt:
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[li]Made a CloneCD copy using Securom <v4.8* settings (hey, it worked for NWN for me - don’t ask me why because I don’t know, but it did.)
[/li][li]Needless to say in retrospect, thats +1 coaster.
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Second attempt:
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[li]Made a CloneCD copy using the new Securom profile which I got from this website.
[/li][li]I tried making my own BWA file with 50,000 as the max sectors. Speed: 8x
[/li][li]Used twinpeaks, configuration: twin sector step 15, max image file size 710Mb.
[/li][li]Burnt it on a CD-R with a standard game profile with the patched.ccd image and again +1 coaster.
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Third attempt:
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[li]Made a CloneCD copy using the standard ‘game’ profile which comes with CloneCD.
[/li][li]Used the BWA file which I downloaded from this website for NOLF 2.
[/li][li]Used twinpeaks, configuration: twin sector step 15, max image file size 710Mb.
[/li][li]More cleverly (or pessimistically by now) burnt it on a CD-RW and it gave me an illegal operation when I tried to start it with the emulator and never started.
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Fourth attempt:
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[li]Made a CloneCD copy using the Securom new profile which I downloaded off this website.
[/li][li]Created my own BWA file with the auto-detect max sectors on, giving 300000. Was really pissed off by now so used 1x speed to be safe.
[/li][li]Used twinpeaks, configuration: twin sector step 15, max image file size 710Mb.
[/li][li]Burnt it on a CD-RW and it this time did not give me an illegal operation when I tried to start it with the emulator but still never started.
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Also, for the fourth attempt, as “The most recent version also detects if it is being run from a CD-R media, to solve this just use a CD-ROM, instead of a CD-Writer, to play the game from.” I tried using my non-CD writer LiteOn, but it also did not work.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Am I using the wrong version of Blindwrite? I read that 4.2.5 is a better version to use, but I can’t seem to find a place to download it at www.blindwrite.com. Perhaps I need to change the twin sector step or the even max image file size?
This is very frustrating. I know that Vivendi has a return policy for damaged CDs but this looks like one of those game I will be playing for some time and by the time the return policy has elapsed then (by Murphy’s Law) that is when my originals will get trashed. Like my poor SS 2 CD…as some of you may know, you can’t buy that game any more and a crack developed in the inner hole and propagated outwards. Eventually I was never able to use it and had to go to an auction site to buy another original…TWICE.
God damned copy protections.