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Title: WHDLOAD and Game Install Disks....
Post by: keropi on September 28, 2004, 09:13:35 AM

Well, I have read in the WHDLOAD homepage that the installers only work with original disks... Is this absolutelly true? When using a game disk created from the TOSEC archive, whdload will not work? Anyone tried that?

Title: Re: WHDLOAD and Game Install Disks....
Post by: Cass on September 28, 2004, 11:55:49 AM

If the loader is cracked/altered, then the HDLoader will not patch correctly the disk-image and it will be useless.
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Title: Re: WHDLOAD and Game Install Disks....
Post by: keropi on September 28, 2004, 12:44:17 PM

lame.... useless protection since those games are now abandoned....

Title: Re: WHDLOAD and Game Install Disks....
Post by: cgutjahr on September 28, 2004, 01:29:11 PM

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lame....

Sigh... a TOSEC leecher calling the WHDLoad team lame - how lame is *that* ;-)

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useless protection since those games are now abandoned....

It's not about protecting anything - supporting a crack requires additional work. On top of that, a crack might be buggy, incomplete or hacked (title pic changed to include the cracker's initials etc.).

Title: Re: WHDLOAD and Game Install Disks....
Post by: CaptChaos on September 28, 2004, 02:03:02 PM

well there is a way around it... you can emulate a hdsetup and install from an .ipf file... but I'll leave that up to you.

Title: Re: WHDLOAD and Game Install Disks....
Post by: keropi on September 29, 2004, 07:42:09 AM

Sigh... a TOSEC leecher calling the WHDLoad team lame - how lame is *that* ->>>> Perhaps you know of some disks that survive over time???? I got ~40 original games with my a1200 from e-bay, and only 6 are working ok.... what is the point of only creating installs for original disks, if u cannot find them at the first place? If u have them and they are dead, the game is over... This is 2004, not 1994... I am not saying the team is lame, they are great, but kinda useless if only supporting original disks...

Title: Re: WHDLOAD and Game Install Disks....
Post by: keropi on September 29, 2004, 07:44:06 AM

and what is an .ipf file? a little info plz????

Title: Re: WHDLOAD and Game Install Disks....
Post by: ArthurDent on September 29, 2004, 08:30:52 AM

You can find information about the CAPS-project and the .ipf file format here:

http://www.caps-project.org/

Regards,
Arthur