How to make Crysis mini image
 

NOW WE WILL MAKE A FULL DVD9 (game is really 5.46GBs) BACKUP OF THE GAME, WHY? WE NEED THE MDS FILE. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PLENTY OF SPACE ON YOUR HDD’S!!!

1. Insert dvd into your drive and cancel autorun

2. Launch Alcohol120%

3. Start image making wizard

a. Use Securom Profile

b. Check Data Position Measurement, leave Precision at High

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/806/DPM.th.jpg

c. Choose where to save the image (mdf and mds)

d. A dialog will come up at what speed to read for DPM, I used 24X, but this could vary for you, depending on your drive quality. It is a long process on some drives just to get the DPM.

e. Go to the location where your image is saved, look at your mds file, should be around 50kb. Mine was 51.9kb


4. Test the game if you can launch it without your disc in the drive, but with the image instead.

a. Download Y.A.S.U.

b. Copy the .exe to the Daemon Tools Dir,

c. Load the yasu.exe, click Cloak, DONT QUIT THE APP

d. Load Daemon Tools, mount Crysis image (mds)

e. Try to load the game, if it works, perfect, we can proceed to making the mini image.



NOW WE MAKE THE MINI IMAGE / SHORT DUMP (because we wont run Alcohol long)


5. Reload Alcohol 120%

a. Start image making wizard

b. Click Skip Read Errors and Advance sector scanning, DO NOT HAVE DATA POSITION MEAUSREMENT CHECKED, it’s not needed and will only consume time.

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/3...ING_MDF.th.jpg

c. Click next, save the image somewhere other than the last time

d. Run Alcohol for a VERY short time, until the percentage says around 0.1 or 0.2, by now your image is already around 10mbs or so, then cancel it fast, before it saves more data (not a problem, but the point is to keep the image small)

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/4725/PROGRESS.th.jpg

when it asks to cancel, click yes

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5...lyeshb8.th.jpg

when it asks to delete files, click no

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2...tenozi8.th.jpg

e. Go to the dir where you saved the images from this process, notice the mds file is around 8kb, it’s not good!

f. Overwrite the .mds from the full dvd9 dump with this one

6. Now you should have 2 files, and mdf and an mds, mds ranging around 50kb or a bit higher, and mdf, around 10mb? Depending how long you ran Alcohol 120 in the short dump process.

7. PLAY CRYSIS WITHOUT A DISC, KILL THOSE ALIENS, SAVE MAN KIND:p



PROPER AND IMPROPER IMAGES

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/4...PARISON.th.jpg

SIDE NOTES – YOU MUST HAVE YASU RUNNING TO PLAY THE GAME, THIS WORKS WITH DAEMON TOOLS 4.11.2, I USED THE RIG IN MY SIG TO TEST THIS, AND MY CRYSIS WAS PATCHED TO V 1.1

Tested with DVD BURNER – SAMSUNG SH 182M WITH RPC1 FIRMWARE, and ASUS DRW-1608P2 STOCK FW

This doesn't seem to be very different from the "How to make a SafeDisc mini image" guide at CDFreaks, linked to in the PC Games forum FAQ.

ya its not, i realised that while i was making it, safedisc concept
delete it if u feel like u dont need
szia

confirmed this method works with daemon tools 4.12 sptd 1.55

sounds cool. A120% version ?

not sure what u mean, but this is from a real disc, legit..

@SuppA-SnipA
I think 'jana_asap' wants to know what version of Alcohol 120% you used? ;)

@jana_asap
It's latest version 1.9.7.6022 as earlier versions didn't have predefined Datatypes for DVD media.
But older versions will do the job just like the latest one, you only have to tick DPM manually.

Zulu is right, i did use 1.9.7.6022

Yes thought you might have but I didnt want to speculate. Last time I did that I got it wrong. ;)

i tried , but larger, what language do u have in ur DVD? only English ?

PS:not the latest A120%

i guess mines only english then
and what do u mean by?
"PS:not the latest A120%"

Perhaps they meant they dont have the latest 120%

i dont know anymore lol

there is no option for you to choose language while you install the game, isn't there ? Where did you buy the Special edition then ?

Oh lordy.