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ok it's simple to use, this tool hide your ide2, mount the mini image on demon tools and launch the game, by quit the game all hidet ide will restaured.
How to use:
Use the default setting from tool change nothing!
Extract to c:\StarFuck v0.81Full
Launch: StarFuck.exe
Chose the type of protection from your game
Clic on "links generator"
Indicate the path from your **.exe of the protected game by clic on specify EXE file buton.
Indicate the path from your mini image by clic on specify Image.
Clic on the create a link buton and give a gamename for the link, save to desktop.
Close the tool and launch the game with the created link on desktop! PLAY.
Have fun
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| Posted: Sun, 5th Dec 2004 12:28 Post subject: cmr2005 |
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Checked if it works with Colim Mcrae 2005. Got 2 different images available in the net. It seems to working, as it passes the previous insert the cd to different rom error and goes directly to enter the cd serial.
At that point i couln'd get it on, as the images are either bad quality or the serial i found doesn't mach the image in the first pace.
Therefore, if there was either a quality clone of the DVD or a maching serial for the images available, it most probaly will work.
About the nocd available in GCW .. well its the biggest load of BS i've seen. It maches exatly the demo exe and i have not foun anyone in the forums who have managed to get it to work.
Anyways.. hope to see a serial check by-pass or a fixed exe soon:) Starforce seems to be screwed for CMR2005:)
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Weedo
Posts: 1506
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue, 7th Dec 2004 21:28 Post subject: |
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You need to have all your optical drives on the secondary IDE channel? This program only disables the secondary channel for you? Then I don't really understand why this tool gets so much praise. Isn't it somehow useless? Everyone who has only HDDs on their first channel can just use bios settings to disable the secondary channel - and for people like me who have optical drives on both IDE channels this tool seems to be completely worthless anyway.
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| Posted: Tue, 7th Dec 2004 21:29 Post subject: |
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someone try obscure ????
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ollax
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Posts: 2154
Location: Here today, Hell tomorrow!
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| Posted: Wed, 8th Dec 2004 09:32 Post subject: |
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both my hdd's are sata and my dvdr is the old fashioned ide, still works??
Of all the things i've lost, i miss my mind the most!
"Ozzy Osbourne"
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| Posted: Wed, 8th Dec 2004 11:08 Post subject: |
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Well guys I think new versions will fix the optical drive and RAID issues. Cheer up. Once they know how to starfuck, it'll go faster.
Can someone confirm if it works with Shade (mini image?)
11th "Thou shalt not flash"
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| Posted: Wed, 8th Dec 2004 11:11 Post subject: |
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| Mr_Baggins wrote: | Well guys I think new versions will fix the optical drive and RAID issues. Cheer up. Once they know how to starfuck, it'll go faster.
Can someone confirm if it works with Shade (mini image?) |
yes works
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| Posted: Wed, 8th Dec 2004 20:05 Post subject: |
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I got a prob. Disable CD-ROMS, played game. Enabled, and only one CD came back. How the fuck restore the other one also?
11th "Thou shalt not flash"
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Dec 2004 13:03 Post subject: |
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Hi "Mr_Baggins" just restat the computer and second CDROM will reapear no prob work fine. Have fun .
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Dec 2004 13:28 Post subject: |
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| aby wrote: | | Hi "Mr_Baggins" just restat the computer and second CDROM will reapear no prob work fine. Have fun . |
Well, did not work like that but even simplier - had only to enable it in device manager.
11th "Thou shalt not flash"
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Dec 2004 16:19 Post subject: |
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A VERY VERY IMPORTANT THING:
It seems that every version of Starfucker different from the first one (0.77) doesn't work for me, because my starforce protected games say "No disc found" instead of checking the disc (at the end they don't start anyway, but that is for the bad topology of the image).
DID ANYBODY NOTICE THE SAME BUG?
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Dec 2004 16:44 Post subject: |
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my fellow russians did it w00t!
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tucolino
Posts: 62
Location: sunny spain
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| Posted: Fri, 10th Dec 2004 17:04 Post subject: |
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halfluke,i used to have the same problem,until i tried latest version (0.82,i belive).works like a charm!!
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Dec 2004 01:19 Post subject: |
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I just keep getting the Disc Read Error message trying to load Scrapland with the mini-image. Also, is it normal that the MI has no data in it ?
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Dec 2004 11:43 Post subject: |
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Hope That Daemon-tools will mix up with the STARFUCK...
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Dec 2004 11:56 Post subject: |
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So, does anyone know what I'm doing wrong ?
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jan 2005 18:01 Post subject: |
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Hi
I am experiencing some problems with Starfuck, maybe someone here can help me. I have installed Scrapland and mounted the Mini-Imaged. Afterwards I rebooted and started Starfuck. The problem is that if I select the latest version of Starforce and click on "Patch" I get the following error message :
In Database : 2 Drivers
From them patched : 1
Also I see no button with which I can disable my CD-Roms. It it intended, that the Preferences button only appears when one of the Starforce-Versions is selected ?
I am using Win2k SP4, my mainboard is a Asus A7N8X-Deluxe with Nforce2-Chipset and my two drives (Teac W540E, NEC ND-2500A) are both connected to the secondary IDE channel.
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jan 2005 20:11 Post subject: |
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This tool works great. No replacement for a real crack but a workaround.
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| Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2005 19:14 Post subject: |
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Is any of the developers still reading this thread ?
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Rzooq
Posts: 536
Location: "Mexico of Europe"
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Is it only me, or there is 1.0 version of that Masterpiece?
There is new UI and new name - StarForce NightMare.
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1. Overview
This tool lets you deactivate CDRom drives in your system. Actually it supports not just deactivating of all drives on IDE channel, like starfuck it do, but even a cd drive separately. Also the combination of hard drive and cd drive on the same channel would be possible too.
This program is the technical further stage of starfuck project. The project starfuck had to be freezed for undefined time because our development team has changed.
Before using this program keep in mind: all what you do, you do on your own risk.
Be carefull, if you are using it: not all features will work for every one, it depends on your hardware and software combination.
If you are not sure about it, delete this program.
2. Short briefing (how to)
- IMPORTANT: For correct working you must have administrator rights
Control buttons purposes explanation (...)
- IMPORTANT: After clicking on needed button you'll see "Processing..." in main window caption
!!!Be patient, dont click any button till "Processing..." caption will be changed to "Starforce Nightmare"
3. System requirements
This tool is designed for using under Windows XP-Windows 2003 Server
(IMPORTANT: This tool will not work under Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98 and Windows 95)
4. Known issues
Since starforce version 3.4.65.09 to prevent old starfuck methods for deactivating cd drives starforce goes a very hardware incompatible way. StarForce protected game tries to reset ide channel before it begins to check protected disc. Therefore this can take up to 2 minutes before starforce begins with its disc check. All users, who have CD drive on SCSI controller, ATAPI CD Drive on ATA/RAID controller, CD drive on USB controller and even coming hardware innovation called CD drive on SATA controller, all those users are involved by this hardware incompability issue of Starfore protection. This hardware incompability appears even than, if you remove all your drives from IDE channel physically and deactivate your IDE channels in BIOS to set needed resources free, also you don't even need to use our program to find it out. That's, what you get with Starforce. It seems, starforce team doesn't care about its hardware compability and not just that, they don't care about software compability of their product, for which they want money. If they try to reset the channel, they "play" with priority system of windows os, therefore don't wonder if your computer will crash or after few times starting the starforce protected game in such environment you will not be able to start any windows application more. It happens since starforce version 3.4.65.09 and above. On our test systems we were very often able to reproduce this software crash issue. As you see, all what starforce has done before is useless. What they added to the protection is just rapidly increased hardware and software incompability, nothing more, nothing less. It's diffucult to imagine, what will be next hardware/software incompability level, if starforce tries to prevent methods present in this program. How far they will go with their paranoid idea to don't care about the hardware and software compability of their protection? How it will work on coming PCI Express? How it will work with controllers in native mode? I have already noticed many problems with starforce and native mode controllers. For example most of Nforce2,3+ users can already set their IDE controller in native mode since windows xp sp1> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/Native-modeATA.mspx
Just add to registry [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PnP\Pci]
"EnableNativeModeATA"=dword:00000001
And in the near feature native mode for IDE controllers will be necessity for coming windows systems to get "Windows hardware logo" from Microsoft. As you see, the world of hardware don't stay on the same level, but all what starforce do is degrading its hardware and software
compability.
If you, as game developer or distributer, bring your software, games or updates to users you have to take into account, that even with update of starforce protection the compability of your software will rapidly sink instead expected improvements. Especially by considering last events.
Still want to protect your games with starforce?
As user you have to take into account, that if you buy new hardware, for example, just new motherboard, it may happen, that your favorite games will not run on such system due the hardware incompability with starforce protection. Or if you are already a owner of last computer hardware and starforce game started till now without problems, than you can just install update on your game and you will no more be able to run it from original disc on your computer. Still want to buy such games protected by starforce? You see, to create this program you need deep expert knowledge of hardware architecture and as you see, we have it, else this program wouldn't exist. All, what I want to say with, my opinion described above is not just yeasty words, it is reality. So think about it, what you buy for your money. |
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