Shadow Of Memories, Konami, PC Version, Start-up problems
Clive Long,UK
When I Select "Play" for this game, I get the error dialog box
"No Disk Inserted"
even though the game disk is inserted in the CD drive.
No othe rgame I have that requires the CD to be in the drive at Game
start up exhibits this behaviour.
Has anyone else expereinced this problem? Is there a fix.
I have looked all over the (Chaotic) Konami Web Sites and can find no
links to any fixes or downloads for ANY of its games
Regards
Clive, UK
Craig Hulett
> Hello
>
> When I Select "Play" for this game, I get the error dialog box
>
> "No Disk Inserted"
>
> even though the game disk is inserted in the CD drive.
>
> start up exhibits this behaviour.
>
> Has anyone else expereinced this problem? Is there a fix.
>
> I have looked all over the (Chaotic) Konami Web Sites and can find no
> links to any fixes or downloads for ANY of its games
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Clive, UK
This can be a copy protection issue. A couple of things to try: If you
have more than one cd drive (like a CDROM and a CDRW) try using the other
drive. Or if you have the hard-drive space, so can look into copying the
entire cdrom onto your hard drive and 'emulating' your cdrom drive - look at
things like 'daemon tools' or 'alcohol 120' for that. Lastly, you could
check www.gamecopyworld.com for a 'no-cd crack' which removes the copy
protection, allowing play without the cd. I've *had* to do this for three
or four games lately, games that refused to work with my cdrom because of
over-zealous copy protection. HTH.
-craig
asdfg
There was a patch for this game that was supposed to help with
the CD not being detected properly. One place that seems to have
it is
http://www.3dgamers.com/games/shadowdestiny/#filelist
Clive Long,UK
>
> There was a patch for this game that was supposed to help with
> the CD not being detected properly. One place that seems to have
> it is
> http://www.3dgamers.com/games/shadowdestiny/#filelist
That patch fixes the CD detection problem
Thanks
It would be a good idea if this patch appeared on the Konami Web Site!
Initial impression of game performance: I have set resolution to 640 x
480. The card is a generic based on GeForce 2 MX400 Nvidia AGP4 64Mb
(if that makes sense!). Direct X 9 run-time loaded on Win 98SE with
all MS maintenance loaded. The game asks for AGP / DirectX8 / 64MB
card
The video performance is slightly "choppy" but is just acceptable. The
"Rendering" is "good to fair" in that it is slightly artificial - but
I don't have a comparison against other game performance
Thanks for the help and the link
Clive
Clive Long,UK
>
> This can be a copy protection issue. A couple of things to try: If you
> have more than one cd drive (like a CDROM and a CDRW) try using the other
> drive. Or if you have the hard-drive space, so can look into copying the
> entire cdrom onto your hard drive and 'emulating' your cdrom drive - look at
> things like 'daemon tools' or 'alcohol 120' for that. Lastly, you could
> check www.gamecopyworld.com for a 'no-cd crack' which removes the copy
> protection, allowing play without the cd. I've *had* to do this for three
> or four games lately, games that refused to work with my cdrom because of
> over-zealous copy protection. HTH.
>
> -craig
Craig
SOM has stopped working again. I found the No-CD location on
gameworld for Shadow of Memories. I downloaded a file "sd-som98.rar".
Hhhow do I use this "*.rar" file?
Regards
Clive
Jeremy Graven
"Clive Long,UK" <clive...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2b77647f.03060...@posting.google.com...
>
>
> SOM has stopped working again. I found the No-CD location on
> gameworld for Shadow of Memories. I downloaded a file "sd-som98.rar".
> Hhhow do I use this "*.rar" file?
>
> Regards
>
>
> Clive
It's a compressed file. You can use WinRAR to extract it. The interface is
pretty much identical to WinZIP.
http://www.rarsoft.com/download.htm
Jeremy