The Un-Official How to Play Copy Protected Games

After I installed the games the only way I've managed to get them working is to uninstall them, go through the registry deleting every possible key relating to the game. Reboot the pc, install and then it seems to work.

try explaining this problem to the people you bought the cds off..if they are originals you deserve a working copy.....

would recieving a "failed to identify disk in the drive. insert licensed disk." from starforce mean that my CD image is not good enough?

if that's the case, does anyone have a working blazing angels CD image?

I think gameburnworld has a mini image here

Is there a program that works like sd4hide, but works with safedisc v 2.8?

I have SimCity4 mounted onto disc already, using alcohol, already deleted the iso file, and don't have any more blank discs.

You don't even need it Safedisk 2.8 don't have blacklisting crap

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awesome information about protections

Just out of Luck?

Looking for some advice...I am starting to think that I'm just out of luck on this.
Trying to play sims 2 deluxe w/no-cd...I've been reading the sims no-cd thread, along with this one, since Saturday...Excellent threads, BTW, both of them. Was looking for DIP's 'tutorial', but could not find it. I'm not an idiot, but much of it was greek, so it took a whole bunch of reading. Didn't want to post a plea for help without some education. Here is some info...system is self-built...

OS:XP media, SP2.
Procesor=AMD Athelon 64, 4000+, 2.42, Ghz.
1 GB RAM
Standard ASUS CD/ROM
PLEXTOR DVD/R PX-760A
NVIDIA Gforce7600GT
300GB HD

Seems sufficient enough.

this past weekend, i purchased the game mentioned above. wanted to be able to run it with no cd, for when i travel with laptop...trying it out on home computer first. I've run A-Ray, and Sector Scan says that the DVD has Securom on it...ok...got that.

I've made complete (not minis) images of the DVD with Alcohol, Both with and without DPM on. Even made one with DPM on, writing at the lowest speed possible (do you know how long that took?? lol).

Also made full image with Blindwrite, .b6t file, i believe.

I've mounted these images...both in Alcohol, and in Daemon tools. Could not execute the game. They mount fine. Execution errors, stating "Conflict with Emulation Software Detected". Even went so far as to uninstall, and re-install the game from my Daemon mount.

when i try now to execute the game, I get the same error. ( I think this is progress from the "use original CD not a backup" error I was getting though...lol). I have also tried SR7.STOP, that weird German program listed earlier in this thread (i went to a german --> english translation site to figure out what it was doing...i was paranoid). Just looking for some more ideas...my copy is leagal...its sitting right here...mocking me.

I even went into the control panel and disabled my cd and dvd devices, leaving only my virtual intact.

Am I just out of luck here, or is maybe my order of operations out of whack? Am I doing things in the wrong sequence? or perhaps my dvd/r won't do a perfect copy even with DPM on? I'm really REALLY frustrated. Please help if you can....I would really appreciate it.

try.
Y.A.S.U to hide your virtual device.

also sometimes images just dont wanna work.

you could try download a no cd-crack for the mean time.
just remember to save the origional game exe in a seperate folder 1st, so if you need to update it later you can replace he cracked no cd exe with the origional.
http://www.megagames.com/cracks/gs6.htm

oh and demon tools has a emulate securom setting you should try and apply.

thanks for the quick reply. I do have the securom option turned on in d-tools.
I really think i'm in the images dont work category.
I went out and got yasu, and it says its cloaking...still get the same error.
do you think i need to mount/remount, etc...after cloaking?

trying the link you included also...thanks.

Tried that....thank you. Still not working. I'm going to try making an image with my husbands writer, as opposed to my plextor....maybe that will make a difference? Guess i can retry doing both Alcohol and blindwrite images...see what happens...

Woo, haven't been on in a while, updated some links, and added a downloads section. Unfortunately, I'm outta character space. I was wondering if I can request the moderators to allow 9000 characters? or 8000? And if you guys could get rid of the Un-Official, to Official. Thanks again mods

Hey...good points put up here..... anyhow, i use another method. i try to get an original setup cd from whereever i can for a day, or atleast an hour..... then make an image of the original disk and save it to my hard-drive. whenever i want to play the game, i just mount the original image in the virtual rom and start playing.....!!!!! no cracks, no keygens, plus i can update the game to the latest patch released. whats more, i get to play on IGZ if i want to.

The Un Official How to Play Copy Protected Games

Console worked with this drive before. It played all games normally. Dash is 126xx. I tested good drive in this console, it shows the same. Any ideas?