Starforce 3.6 Mini image - Is it possible?

[neptun]

I have bought Prince of persia the two thrones and managed to get it to work with my backup image without unplugging optical drives thanks to daemon tools 4 , my SATA only HDD and the nforce4 IDE controller but i would be very happy if there was mini or maxi image for it ( the so called mini image for POPT2T that is on GCW is not working for me and not only for me as i read in the forum).I made a little research and saw only one starforce 3.6 game with maybe working mini image for it on GCW and it is Cold war ( I don't know if this image is working because i don't have the game itself ).My question is is there any way to make a working mini image for starforce 3.6 game and if there is how can this be made.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Read the FAQ on how to make mini/maxi/full images. But I don't think that mini images would work with the latest versions of copy protections; perhaps, maxi images would (?) but those are pretty hard to create because you have to find out, by mostly trial and error, which areas (note the plural!) of the CD/DVD (image) the copy protection checks...

[neptun]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

Read the FAQ on how to make mini/maxi/full images. But I don't think that mini images would work with the latest versions of copy protections; perhaps, maxi images would (?) but those are pretty hard to create because you have to find out, by mostly trial and error, which areas (note the plural!) of the CD/DVD (image) the copy protection checks...

I think that you don't mean the forum FAQ because there is no such information on it.Please give me a link to the correct FAQ.

[Joe Forster/STA]

There's an entire subforum for the forum FAQ (see the top of every thread list page). The forum FAQ, not the forum software FAQ.

[Grumpy]

FAQ
EDIT: Doh!! Sorry Joe, I must have been getting the link when you posted.

[neptun]

Thank you very much.

[XdaywalkerX]

it's possible to make a mini image.... i've made a "mini" image for king kong (but it's round about 350 MB large).... so it's not very usefull i've used ultra iso, a hexeditior and alcohol 120 - but i think it was luck to got this image to work...

[caki]

350?? waaaay too much... its prolly possible to do more, but thats up to you .

[Grumpy]

i've made a "mini" image for king kong (but it's round about 350 MB large)....

hmmm, we had 'mini images', we've had 'maxi images'. Now we have Meedi (medium) images.

[DABhand]

I think someone forgot to press CANCEL when they were making it

[XdaywalkerX]

Originally Posted by DABhand

I think someone forgot to press CANCEL when they were making it

no no no... this method doesn't work for starforce protected games... it was a hard piece of work to make this image... but i hate starforce and i'll help to beat it.

well... i'll waiting for starforce 3.7 - i think the next ubisoft release will be protected by this version of starforce.

[nINJAkECIL]

Originally Posted by caki

350?? waaaay too much... its prolly possible to do more, but thats up to you .

350MB is waaaaayyyyy too much??? hmmmm....I wonder what you call it when I had to play Splinter Cell 3: Chaos theory with 4.3Gb of image...still I had to do it though

[Anti669]

Originally Posted by nINJAkECIL

350MB is waaaaayyyyy too much??? hmmmm....

It's way too much because only a fraction of this actually relates to the copy protection. The rest of it isn't actually needed to run the game.

The hard bit is figuring out which is which...

[kooka]

i have a question pls to make a minin or maxi image does it have to be with the original disc or you can make a mini or maxi image even from not an original disc thank you for answering

[Grumpy]

@kooka
Yes, it has to be created from your original discs. I cannot be created from your backup discs!