making DVD mini image from Safedisc 4.70.000

[Jito463]

What program did you use to make the image, and what settings in that program did you use?

[sdr12]

im a compleat newb in this area and would like some help.. i have a vcd(virtual cd image) of battlefield 2142 now, how would i go about getting it to run with out having to have the actual cd, do i need to get deamon tools, and scrap the vcd and make it an iso, and if so what would i need to run/do to make it wourk with out an cd
Thanks

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[Xanius]

You could also use SD4Hide, atleast I think so. It has worked on every version I've come across but haven't tried with 2142 yet.

If I knew what safedisc actually checked on the disc I would try my hand at making a mini image and testing.

[TiTaNsFaN690]

My DevCon wont run for some reason.. only pops up for a second and dissapears. Any suggestions?

[TiTaNsFaN690]

Sorry to sound like a total newcomer but how do you create a script? Thanks.

[darthfusion]

What if you don't have physical drives in your machine?

I have My main system (DVD/DVD-RW etc) and a machine that I only run Virtual Drives on and get the same error on both machines.

Would the same steps be necessary for a machine with NO physical drives?

[Ackeron]

Not a problem

OK ... so the problem is that the virtual disk will not work if the IDE drive is enabled... so lets just script it so we can disable it...


First, we download a nice tool from microsoft called devcon

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272

This is a command line tool for the device manager.

Next we create two scripts:

disabledvd.vbs
'*****************************************
'Edit the following line to point to the location of devcon on your system
devcon = "c:\devcon.exe"

Dim oWshShell
set oWshShell = CreateObject("wscript.Shell")
oWshShell.Run devcon & " disable *DVD*",0,true
'******************************************

enabledvd.vbs
'*****************************************
'Edit the following line to point to the location of devcon on your system
devcon = "c:\devcon.exe"

Dim oWshShell
set oWshShell = CreateObject("wscript.Shell")
oWshShell.Run devcon & " enable *DVD*",0,true
'******************************************

Once you have those two scripts on saved on your computer your ready to create your daemonscript.

1. Mount BF2142 image
2. RunApp - disabledvd.vbs
3. RunApp BF2142
4. WaitForApp - BF2142 to terminate
5. RunApp - enabledvd.vbs
6. UnMount

so far this method has worked for both BF2142 and Civ4.

Ackeron

[~Mr-Freeze~]

so will there be a new blindwrite 6 plugin made
so u can mount a image with out disabled the cd roms

it will do the same as the bw auto play? where that needs 2 be installed to use the image?

[AnalCobra]

There's no need to enable the Safedisk emulation, all the emulations only are needed if you use a CD-R. Its better to disable all emulations because i remember a conflict with a Sims add-on and the safedisk emulation.

[solway]

Hi

I tried this but couldn't get my maxi image to work even with my physical dvd drive disabled in device manager.

(I made the image with high DPM 1x)

Anything else I should do?

didn't use DPM, and the read speed was stuck on max.
did tick, skip errors, and advanced sector scaning

also tick the safedisc protection in daemon tools, just to be safe.

thanks guys for the help.

[Spiny]

Thanks for that - I ticked everything & it worked

Now I just need to figure out if I can disable the physical drive automatically with a wmi script.

[Terramex]

plus
strange thing is battlefield 2 mini-image works for the 1.3 patch which is SD4.5.

Though it could be easy implemented i haven't seen that content check to be handed in later with patches (only the blacklist gets updated).

Titles published with SD 4.0 patched to SD 4.5+ -> mini image works
Titles published with SD 4.5 -> mini image doesn't work

[NetSoerfer]

Spiny, create a new image using Alcohol's latest SafeDisc profile.

[Jito463]

Safedisc doesn't require DPM.

[Spiny]

Settings?

Hi

I tried this but couldn't get my maxi image to work even with my physical dvd drive disabled in device manager.

(I made the image with high DPM 1x)

Anything else I should do?