Help Again!!!

[banzibaby]

Hi all

Me just bought World Wor III Black Gold & Hostile Waters, both original & got in local Game store 4 £10

Sweet

So me just checkin out what the man himself stone_burner advises or any other help appreciated

Repeat Not Budget Release, But Original

Been wanting 2 get hostile waters 4 a while cause if i rem right Warren Ellis(comic book writer) does the script

World War 3 me just got 2 try something diff from 1st person shooter's

Cheers

BaNzI

[banzibaby]

Hello anyone there

If anyone can help, i'd really appreciate it

Cheers

BaNzI

[VIPER_1069]

i think stone_burner has fell asleep banzi lol

[dx]

banzibaby..... I'm sure if you sent stone_burner a PM with this link, I'm sure he would oblige. It's not easy to notice every thread round here

[celtic_druid]

I believe that WW3 B&G is protected with Securom and Hostile Waters with SafeDisc2. But then again I don't have a copy of either to check where as obviously you do.

Both are quite old so I would think the SD2 version would be pre 2.8.xx and the securom would be pre 4.8xx so neither should be hard to backup.

[stone_burner]

Portmac's site says World War 3 is securom and Hostile Waters is unprotected.

For World War 3 use alcohol with securom settings (old securom not securom new 4.x) or CloneCD with default Game CD profile.

As for Hostile Waters, just use the cd-copy function of nero or whatever.

[banzibaby]

Hi all

Many Many Thanks 4 all the info

Cheers once again

BaNzI

[The-poacher]

SB nice link there M8 tnx

[VIPER_1069]

@ DX i was already 1 step ahead bud already did that on banzi's behalf


(you see GREAT MINDS think alike lol )

[banzibaby]

Yep & cheers again VIPER_1069 & everboby 4 all the help

Just away 2 back them up the now

Thanks

BaNzI

[VIPER_1069]

np

[banzibaby]

Ok progress report

WWW3 backed up ok

Hostile Waters, nero did'nt like it, kept getting unrecoverable read errors, so i scanned it with CloneyXXL & it says it is Safedisc2

Eventually got Alcohol 2 back it up, using the Safdisc proflie, it done the same as nero, but after 20 mins(it kept slowing right down with both, but nero just aborted)Alcohol eventually speeded up & backed it up ok(me hope)

But the Original CD gets 2 35% then all these errors appear, so i take it that is the protection kicking in?

Just thought i would let U know how it went

Cheers

BaNzI

[celtic_druid]

i scanned it with CloneyXXL & it says it is Safedisc2

Told ya.

SafeDisc only has read errors for the first couple of percent if you are getting read errors at 35 then they probably have nothing to do with SafeDisc.

If it is taking ages to read then you could always try a fast dump, that way you can read through the errors in seconds.

[scarecrow]

Surely safedisk 2 read errors appear normally within the first 10,500 sectors or so- and that means the game is NOT safedisk2 and that miserable ClonyXXL goofed once more.
You may try to scan the disk with another program, eg Alcoholer or Scout or dunno what...

[stone_burner]

Errors at 35%. Definitely not safedisc. Either original cd is scratched or it's a custom home-made prot.