Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
CD/DVD Drives are great, but they are also very noisy, and a pain to keep changing. So if you got the hard drive space, 1.9gb for BF2, a virtual drive can save a lot of effort.
Many games still try to use the drive as a means to verify ownership, which is why there are many game cracks. But with anti-cheat protections as standard, I do not want to risk getting banned for using a modified file, plus a drive is not effected by game patches.
So here is a quick guide for the DVD version. Grab yourself a trial of Alchohol 120% and choose the Expert Installation, this give an option to change the bus and scsi names. You must change the numbers to get past the protection ( Mine was 137 and I changed it to 120 ). Then use the Image Macking Wizard.
Once you have the image, it will also work on the free Daemon Tools CC just rember to change the numbers on this aswell when installing.
Works great - i use A120% and Daemon Tools for all my games. Good way to keep ur games unscratched
If u plan to start using Alcohol120% and if ur wondering about the settings, when making an image... I`d recommend u to choose "General Protected CD" for the best result. __________________
Thx for the advice Rich. I can give my CD drive a vacation now. :p When using Alchohol to make the immage I received several read errors. Apparently they had no overall effect though. __________________
The read errors are infact important as they deliberatly put in, and are used by cd copy protection code which checks that they exist.
This worked because when it came to CD burning your drive needed to support a raw mode which could re-create the errors.
However currently there is no DVD drive that supports raw writing, so if you try and burn and run a dvd copy the protection will kick in because the disc would be error free.
In early days with VHS yes. Today the DVD's get MOULDED from a glassmaster that goes through an electrolytic process creating a nickel "copy" used in the moulders, known as the stamper. 4 seconds pr. disc. __________________