Crack to Darkstar One is out!!!! Get it here...

[Joe Forster/STA]

For a test, try the following... (First, back up ALL your save games!!! ) Mount the image, launch the game, and get into a situation where something is weird (high prices, cannot buy, cannot sell etc.). Save the game, exit the game, unmount the image, insert the original CD/DVD, launch the game, reload the game and see if you can see a difference.

If you can - things get back to normal -, then this really must be the copy protection. If you see no difference then it's either a bug in the game (or an intentional decision from the developers?!) OR, perhaps, the fact that you once used an image is already stored in the saved game ("eternal punishment" ).

[neptun]

I am only at the begining of the game and i don't know very well the game itself so i am not sure what should be normal and what not so i hope someone more experianced with this game make this test with original and with full image and with maxi image also if he wants and tell us if the things are working ok with image or not.

[RabbitFly]

Actually Joe this has something to do with copy protection of some kind (the price issue). if you read the link I provided you can see a guy talking about the problem occuring on his one dvd-rom and does not when changing to his cd-r rom. me on the other hand only have one disk drive at the moment one of the first sony dvd burners that could burn both +/- dvds.. yea I know it's a tad old and the price of it then is a whole lot more than what you could get for a tenth today. Anyways the price problem occurs with both full image and dvd, while the other problem (shaky nav screen and zeroed out prices) only occur with the maxi image. The shaky screen has also been reported with the use of an original dvd. Maybe this has something to do with certain cds acting differently to certain systems.. which would be weird, but that could explain the shaky nav screen I get from Netpuns maxi image and him not getting it.

[neptun]

I have another strange problem using the crack.If i try to buy a rocket from the eqipment the game crashes giving me some strange popup with information in german which i can't understand.Looks like help file or something similar.The problem is here with both full and maxi image in combination with the crack and setting win2k compatibility mode doesn't help.I don't want to reinstall the whole game to see if this will happen without the crack but maybe i will need to do that.

@RabbitFly can you test if this crash is happening to you also when using the crack in combination with image?

[RabbitFly]

I would, but I can't buy rockets, the prices going haywire is not only graphical you see we are talking shops only selling equipment from 500k and up to 1m+ which would make me play for hours without the possibility of upgrading.. oh and I almost forgot the reason these items probably are so high is because they are cl 3 not cl 1... which means I would have to find ways to upgrade my ship as well.. except I would need the field drive for that and it costs 700k + which means again hours of playing without upgrading my ship.

edit: I am doing a reinstall now, just to check
oh and you should try to remember to always take backup of the files when cracking a game.. lots of reasons for this, that is one of them. some games check the exe file when updating and will not update with a cracked exe...

[neptun]

Something very strange is happeninh with this crack.

[RabbitFly]

well a reinstall did not fix my problem.. and I did say something wrong most stuff is cl 2, but prices are haywire.. some stuff is cl 1 and prices are haywire... why this is I don't really know, but as implied by the guy having same problem on the official forums it must have something to do with the cd check. tried updating the game prices were still haywire.

[Heutiuc]

I guess i have a problem of my own ...

I have the reloaded version, copied the cracked files in the right directory and ...
All prices for equipment are set to 0 (nice)
All the planets in the nav chart are jumpy, they shake all the time, quite hard for the eyes
Can't get to the next system, i can't activate the hyperspace, while i can if i stay in the same system.

Did it happen to anyone else here ?