Alcohol 120 probs

[implode]

Hello there I am using Alcohol 120 to run an image of Bf2 without the disc in. I have one other game that I also use Alcohol for...
everything was fine and dandy until one day I went to run bf2 and the load logo came up and said that I need to insert the disc? after deleting and re-dumping the image it is still coming up? at the same time my other game is working perfectly fine? this all occured after updating from 1.0 to 1.03 patch.

any ideas?

thanks,
iMP

[wisedude]

Re: Alcohol 120 probs

its called COPY PROTECTION. games in general have it, online often more so. im afraid you may have some trouble playing this without the real disc, your best bet is to put the cd in

[OminousLull]

Re: Alcohol 120 probs

I've been using a virtual drive of BF2 from Alcohol for months online. No problems with the 1.03 update. I own a retail disc of BF2, if you don't that could be your problem.

[implode]

Re: Alcohol 120 probs

No I have a retail disc that I bought im not trying to steal anything here... I am just trying to keep my disc from getting scratched and keep my ROM drive freed-up. Everything was working great then it just stopped...
no ideas?

[imported_goya]

Re: Alcohol 120 probs

someone should close this thread and kick implode for piracy

[implode]

Re: Alcohol 120 probs

what is wrong with you Goya? Did you not see my last post? I've paid the same money you have for the game, what's the difference if I want to run mine through a virtual drive instead of my physical drive?
Maybe you don't know what you're talking about?

[mrbucket]

Re: Alcohol 120 probs

Yeah i incurred the same problem, except i got 2 puters and didnt want to keep moving the disc from 1 to the other. It was working fine till 4 days ago, i installed the patch, but cant remember playing on the virtual till then. Maybe the patch has code in it to keep people from stealing the game, but inadvertantly keeps people from burning the virtual drive.

[implode]

Re: Alcohol 120 probs

Thanks Mr.Bucket it's good to know that someone else is having the problem and I'm not just making a stupid mistake of some sort.
I have a few members of my team that are very good with software and I'm having them help me out this weekend with this... so I will get back to you if I hear anything.

[NoSoup4You]

Re: Alcohol 120 probs

BF2 has Copyright protection, in all honesty, I'm surprised it let you install on that machine as usually it will not allow you to install onto a machine with emulation software. As the post above said, your best bet is just to run it with the CD. EA will not support you on this and Alcohol isn't going to write a crack just to work with 1 game.

And for future reference this type of subject matter is considered warez, and is not permittable on this site. I'm sure they will let it slide this time, but beware in the future.

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: Alcohol 120 probs

wow this has never happened to me...except i used daemon tools, but it should be the same

[implode]

Re: Alcohol 120 probs

roger that Khaos, appreciate it.

Conscript; I downloaded Daemon tools once and I didn't like it's functionality and interface... but maybe i'll have to look back into it.

[Chunter]

Re: Alcohol 120 probs

i use a mini image loaded in alcohol as well.
are you running the latest version of alcohol ?
I've had absolutely no problems whatsoever..maybe its your mini image,did you make yours or did you get it from gamecopyworld ?
try reinstalling alcohol and choose expert installation,then when you see 2 boxes with bus numbers in ( something like a347a) change the last letter to a different letter.some games look for this bus and use that to block alcohol.

good luck ..i hate putting discs in and waiting for it to spin up as well...plus the noise drives the missus mad

[bisley]

Re: Alcohol 120 probs

Virtual-CD-Hide , google it .

[imported_goya]

Re: Alcohol 120 probs

Did you not see my last post?

and we're suppoed to trust you because you say so. god this place is filling up with pirates...

[implode]

Re: Alcohol 120 probs

Hey Chunter what do you mean by a Mini-Image? I just dump the 800somthing megabit image in .MDS form onto my harddisk. But thanks for the tips I will try and re-install alcohol today.