Help! It's a Trap!

[Kangy]

I knew Battlefield 2 was trouble. I had reservations about buying it. I thought it was just my "It's EA!" nerves, but no, it was something lurking in the darkness.

Safedisk!

This mysterious foe had thwarted my attempts at playing Brothers In Arms months ago, only I just shrugged it off and used the laptop then. This time, I inserted the DVD, only to hear a hollow "clunk...clunk...clunk" as my only return. I noted my drive model, LG GDR-8161A, and did some research instead of letting it pass.

My god! It was there before me! Safedisk! I felt defeated... Can the good citizens of the Hardware&Software find me a solution? A method to defeat safedisk? Be it promiscous .exe's, or firmware fixes, I'm easy. Just help me defeat this menace!

 

[Glirk Dient]

Download a warez version of BF2 and use your legit CDkey...since you bought the game legitally you are allowed to download a warez version and use your CDkey.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Sorry, couldn't help it.

 

[Kangy]

Okay, I tried that. No such luck, the DVD doesn't even read, so it doesn't work.

x_x

Any more suggestions?

 

[bosox188]

Sorry, couldn't help it.

I thought of the same thing.

 

[Kangy]

I've been trying to fix this since 5:30am now. I found a relevant firmware update for my drive, but when I try to flash it, it says that it cannot find the drive it wants to update with that firmware, even though I know that this is certainly the right drive. I'm getting really pissed off with this thing now, since all I wanted to do was playing something I ****ing legally bought.

Has anyone got any solutions before I tear this piece of shit out of my PC, fill it with rancid beef then mail it to safedisc?

 

[Pesmerga]

Can't you use Daemon Tools to bypass the safedisk while using an emulation?

 

[Kangy]

o rly

Thanks, I'll try that now...

No such luck. The drive obviously just can't even read the changes safedisc makes. ****s sake, I hate the measures they go to with piracy. Bullshit, this stops no software pirate, this just ends up ****ing me over.

And at the end of the day, I'm the one who ****ing paid for the damned thing.

 

[sinkoman]

Haha. "Stops you, and lets pirates on through!".

*midas song*

That's the EA way!

 

[Pesmerga]

Humm, well if you somehow manage to create image files for the disks, you could create a virtual drive on your HDD with Daemon Tools, mount the images, and install from there. I think you can make the .iso files with Alcohol, although I'm probably wrong. Tutorials are bound to be on google.

 

[Kangy]

Yeah, I've given up and now I'm off to make myself a "legal backup". I own the actual product, so EA can **** off. This shit really pisses me off, I'll probably stick to console fun in the future if everything is going to be this way in the future.

Thanks for helping, guys

 

[Pesmerga]

Yeah, I've given up and now I'm off to make myself a "legal backup". I own the actual product, so EA can **** off. This shit really pisses me off, I'll probably stick to console fun in the future if everything is going to be this way in the future.

Thanks for helping, guys

Yeah future anti-pirating is scary stuff. As is the rising prices of games. Hell, American corporations are getting really scary. Something is gonna bust one day, and next thing you know Umbrella will be locking the city wall gates :>