dark messiah mds extraction problem

[Agro]

Just a quick heads up,

I now have a working .Mds. I made it using the topology from BWA builder 5 and then injecting the topology into the original .Mds file using quickmount.

Just letting people know so that they don't spend days pulling their hair out whilst using alcohol 120%

If anybody has any issues just private message me.

Cheers

[Agro]

I don't know if NWN2 counts because I have extracted a perfect DPM using my 2 year old LG dvd drive. I couldn't extract the DPM from Dark Messiah no matter which setting I tried. Its funny because this is the first time IU've had trouble extracting the DPM from a disc.

Maybe its time I upgraded to a better DVD drive.

Would buying a DVD drive capable of burn DVD9 disc help me extract the DPM from DVD9 disc or should I stuck with what I have and get blindwrite

Cheers,

Agro

[Chris_R3dfi3ld]

which plextor models can extract dark messiah mds ?
do you know this from experience or rumors ?
what speed do you talk about when you suggest using plextools ? to extract the dpm ? why ? do plextors drive not work with the alcohol speed selector ?
as for pioneer which model ? the new 112 ??? i have the 111 and dark messiah is a no go under any circumstance. what dvd-9 titles have you personally extracted ?

surely Plextor 760A
I have cloned NWN2 (DVD9 and SEcurom 7.2) with a perfect DPM
I don't try with newest version of Securom
You have to set reading speed by Plextools because Alcohol speed selector doesn't work properly
for model of Pioneer ..I don't know exactly

[ß]

without a latest model of plextor ( set speed with plextools ), toshiba or piooner you can't extract a correct DPM from a DVD9 Securom...

which plextor models can extract dark messiah mds ?
do you know this from experience or rumors ?
what speed do you talk about when you suggest using plextools ? to extract the dpm ? why ? do plextors drive not work with the alcohol speed selector ?

as for pioneer which model ? the new 112 ??? i have the 111 and dark messiah is a no go under any circumstance. what dvd-9 titles have you personally extracted ?

[Chris_R3dfi3ld]

without a latest model of plextor ( set speed with plextools ), toshiba or piooner you can't extract a correct DPM from a DVD9 Securom game

However you can use an other mds with your image

[Agro]

I cannot extract the MDS from Drak Messiah

Hellos

I have been trying for the last week tio extract the MDS from my copy of Dark Messiah. I am fairly certain that my DVD drive is not helping me here. I've tried extracting the MDS on every setting in Alcohol 120% but with no luck.

Can somebody please point me in the right direction or email me a working MDS for Dark Messiah of might and magic

cheers,

[bismax]

Ah damn. Thx.

[Reef]

My game is NOT German, so I don't know if my MDS will work for you, Bismax.

[FordPrefect]

Bismax, do you still need a mds file?

[phoenix]

Presently its a hardware issue for DPM extraction, some drives work no problem such as Teak others like Plextor dont and Toshibas struggle to extract from the second layer but the image will still run.

[bismax]

Cam you upload your mds, when it's the one of the german version? I lost any hope creating it by myself.

[Reef]

It's in the download section of this site, under third party add-ons. Here's a link.

[iCeD00D]

@ Reef -- Can you tell me where to find Quickmount and how to use it? Still having problems loading this game with DT... Tks

[Reef]

This game comes on a dual layer DVD. Maybe that is the reason why it won't work. It seems Alcohol still has some problems with DPM on dual layer discs. I could extract DPM using Alcohol, but the image only worked about 50% of the time. And knowing it took about 30 minutes only to extract DPM, I didn't feel like trying some different speeds.
So I used VSO's BWA Builder (which comes with Blindwrite) to create a BWA file, then injected this BWA into the Alcohol image I made earlier. Now the game runs every time, and also the SecuROM disc check is a lot shorter now (which means it identifies the disc much better).

[ß]

You can try to create an image with BW and then inject the topologie of that image using quickmount in your alcohol image without DPM. That works for me fine with much dvds from which i cant read the DPM with Alc.

i'm not sure it's alcohol thou.....
so far i made dozens of securom discs over the years including heaps of dvd's of late since most are now on that format more then on cd's. also all starforce images i make work perfectly too. so it's unlikely the system as it were. also two separate dvd drives. i also remade some other securom dvd's just to make sure nothing got broken as it were and all is good. i made good dpm of gta: san andreas and titan quest. the system i use to make images is a clean winxp sp2 with NOTHING else but latest alcohol, nvidia v8.x drivers and tweaked windows. not even sound drivers installed etc... it's as clean a system as it can be. i'm thinking the disc but then i don't know. i suppose i could try blind write, been a while since i used it. like around version 4 then they lost the plot. still...