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DAEMON Tools V2.88 - New generation of CD-Protection emulation. (C)2000-2001 VeNoM386 & SwENSkE Check our homepage at http://www.daemon-tools.com for all informations and new versions! Development/Programming - Andrew Naiden (VeNoM386) Support/Distribution/Webpage - Swen Wittich (SwENSkE) Mail: support@daemon-tools.com ******************************************************************************** PLZ READ THE MANUAL FOR DETAILED DAEMON TOOLS INSTRUCTIONS!!! The manual can be found in 'Help' menu after installation. OR USE THE FOLLOWING LINK FOR A MORE DETAILED HTML MANUAL: http://www.daemon-tools.com/daemon.htm ******************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- !!!ATTENTION!!! --------------- This software may only be used to create or run backup copies of legally owned CDs. We DO NOT SUPPORT software piracy in any form! We cannot be held responsible if you are going to use this software for illegal activities such as copyright infringement or software piracy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Info: This is an advanced application for multiprotection emulation. DAEMON Tools is further development of Generic Safedisc emulator and incorporates all its features. This program allows: 1. Running BACKUP copies of SafeDisc (C-Dilla), Securom and Laserlok protected games. 2. Mounting CUE, ISO, CCD, BWT and CDI image files as virtual CDROM drives. It works under Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP with all types of CDROM drives (IDE/SCSI). If you are using Windows95 then you must have at least Win 95B (with installed USB Supplement and Internet Explorer 4 or higher). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN PROBLEMS --------------- - System crashes and/or blue screen of death on some systems having (or had) Adaptec (Roxio) EasyCD installed. Older versions of this burning program are known to cause lots of trouble in combination with other burning soft or DAEMON Tools. THEREFOR WE DO NOT RECOMMEND TO INSTALL DAEMON TOOLS ON A PC WITH EASYCD! Do so at your OWN RISK! Moreover we will not give any support if you ignore this recommendation and run into problems. Make sure to COMPLETELY (see below) remove EasyCD before installing DAEMON Tools! As EasyCD cannot create working copies or images of protected CDs we cannot recommend it at all. However newer versions (4.2x and higher) seem to be less incompatible. Anyway these versions are still not able to create 'good' images or even copies. If you encounter problems and have or had EasyCD installed plz note that a standard uninstall of EasyCD DOES NOT solve your problems as some drivers of EasyCD are not deinstalled and still loaded when booting your system. The easiest way to remove or disable these drivers is to use the (very good) audio CD burning program 'Feurio' (www.feurio.com). This program runs a system check after installation (can also be started manually by selecting 'Extras' --> 'System Check') pointing to all potential 'trouble-makers' on your system allowing to disable/remove them. - Analog CD Audio functions do not work - they are emulated only. It means you won't hear any sound from CD audio tracks. Try to enable the 'Digital CD Audio' setting if you have a WDM-compatible soundcard driver (see 3.3 in this manual. Analog CD Audio feature will be added soon. - System crash with Nero in some configurations where blank CD-R is inserted into your writer and one of the copy protection emulations is enabled. We are investigating the cause but could not reproduce it on our computers, so we would be thankful if somebody having this problem could describe his full configuration and running software. - Crash during installation on some 9x systems having Nero installed. The crash may be caused by nerocd95.vxd module when new devices are added to system. To solve this issue rename/remove this module (in SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS) temporarily, reboot and install Daemon Tools. Then you can rename/restore it nerocd95.vxd. Updated version on nerocd95.vxd will be soon available on Ahead site. - System lockup after image is mounted and accessed or after reboot with 'Automount' option enabled. This appears to happen only on some systems if you replaced the default hard disk controller busmaster drivers installed by Windows with an updated version from the chipset manufacturer. This issue has been fixed since DAEMON Tools 2.90. Nevertheless please inform us if you still have this problem. Current solutions: Reinstall the busmaster IDE drivers coming with your Windows version. - " 'Virtual DAEMON SCSI Controller' not detected " error message in Windows XP after having updated from Windows 2000. This is a known bug in Windows XP. Solution: Uninstall and then reinstall DAEMON Tools. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DAEMON Tools INSTALLATION ------------------------- Installation in Windows 95/98/ME: --------------------------------- To run DAEMON Tools setup in Windows 95 you MUST have at least Win 95B with installed USB supplement, Year 2K Patch and/or Internet Explorer 4 or higher! It is highly recommended you install IE 5 as it isn't only a browser but updates A LOT of system files. It is either required for full Y2K compatibility of Win95. You may deinstall IE again if you don't want to use it - the system update remains! Installation of DAEMON Tools v2.60 and higher requires the latest version of Windows Installer (MSI). It is the latest MS installation technology and already integrated in Windows ME but also available as upgrade for Win 9x. DAEMON Tools setup will automatically offer to download the latest version for you if it isn't found on your system. Alternatively you can download Windows Installer for 9x from the following location: Version for all languages (1513 KB): http://www.daemon-tools.com/Scripts/msia.pl?instmsia.exe Anyway we recommend to just run DAEMON Tools setup as several newer programs (e.g. Office 2000, Disc Juggler 3.x) automatically install Windows Installer so you may already have it installed. Unzip the DAEMON Tools archive (daemon*.zip) to any temporary folder and run 'setup.exe'. All necessary files will be copied and two new devices will be installed in your system, the "Virtual DAEMON SCSI Controller" and the "V386 PHANTOM CDROM". After setup has finished the 'DAEMON Tools' shortcut is placed on your desktop and the DAEMON manager icon will appear in the notification area of your taskbar. Right-click on it to see the popup menu. The 'DAEMON Manager' allows you to enable or disable Safedisc, Securom and Laserlock emulation. It is also used to mount and unmount images to DAEMON Tools' virtual PHANTOM CDROM drive, to set the number of how many PHANTOM CDROMs will be installed (number can be '0' to '4') and to set several other options. Moreover you use it to access help menu. A left-click on the icon allows quick mounting/dismounting of images. Directly after installation Windows assigns the next free drive letter to the newly installed PHANTOM CDROM drive but after the next reboot Windows automatically puts it in first place giving it the lowest drive letter of your current CDROM drive(s). This behaviour is common for ALL SCSI CDROM drives newly installed to your system, no matter if it is a virtual or physical drive. This behaviour is NOT special for DAEMON Tools. Anyway if you want to keep your old CDROM drive letter(s) go to "Start" --> "Settings" --> "ControlPanel" --> "System" --> "DeviceManager" --> "CDROM" then select "V386 PHANTOM CDROM" and click on "Properties". Select "Settings" in the window coming up and set "Reserved Drive Letters" (First AND Last) to the desired value (must be HIGHER than ALL letters used at the moment!!!). We suggest using "V" = Virtual. Installation in Windows NT: --------------------------- The installation of DAEMON Tools v2.60 and higher requires the latest version of Windows Installer (MSI). It is the latest MS installation technology and available as upgrade for Win NT. DAEMON Tools setup will automatically offer to download the latest version for you if it isn't found on your system. Alternatively you can download Windows Installer for NT from the following location: Version for all languages (1526 KB): http://www.daemon-tools.com/Scripts/msiw.pl?instmsiw.exe Anyway we recommend to just run DAEMON Tools setup as several newer programs (e.g. Office 2000, Disc Juggler 3.x) automatically install Windows Installer so you may already have it installed. Unzip the DAEMON Tools archive (daemon*.zip) to any temporary folder and run 'setup.exe'. All necessary files will be copied and two new devices will be installed in your system, the "Virtual DAEMON SCSI Controller" and the "V386 PHANTOM CDROM". You will be asked to reboot for changes to take effect. After reboot the DAEMON manager icon will appear in the notification area of your taskbar. Right-click on it to see the popup menu. The 'DAEMON Manager' allows you to enable or disable Safedisc, Securom and Laserlock emulation. It is also used to mount and unmount images to DAEMON Tools' virtual PHANTOM CDROM drive, to set the number of how many PHANTOM CDROMs will be installed (number can be '0' to '4') and to set several other options. Moreover you use it to access help menu. A left-click on the icon allows quick mounting/ dismounting of images. When the installation has finished and your system has rebooted you'll notice that Windows has assigned the drive letter of your first CDROM drive to the newly installed PHANTOM CDROM drive. This behaviour is common for ALL SCSI CDROM drives newly installed to your system, no matter if it is a virtual or physical drive. This behaviour is NOT special for DAEMON Tools. Anyway if you want to keep your old CDROM drive letter(s) make sure you're logged in with administrative privileges and then go to "Start"-->"Programs"-->"Administrative Tools (Common)"-->"Disk Administrator". Right click on the CDROM drive you want to change and select "Assign Drive Letter". The selected drive letter will be assigned immediately. Note: You can activate DAEMON manager after install even without reboot, but Windows NT will assign drive letter for new CDROM ('PHANTOM CDROM') after reboot only. If it does not bother you, you can use all emulation features immediately without reboot. Installation in Windows 2000: ----------------------------- Unzip the DAEMON Tools archive (daemon*.zip) to any temporary folder and run 'setup.exe'. All necessary files will be copied and two new devices will be installed in your system, the "Virtual DAEMON SCSI Controller" and the "V386 PHANTOM CDROM". After setup has finished the 'DAEMON Tools' shortcut is placed on your desktop and the DAEMON manager icon will appear in the notification area of your taskbar.Right-click on it to see the popup menu. The 'DAEMON Manager' allows you to enable or disable Safedisc, Securom and Laserlock emulation. It is also used to mount and unmount images to DAEMON Tools' virtual PHANTOM CDROM drive, to set the number of how many PHANTOM CDROMs will be installed (number can be '0' to '4') and to set several other options. Moreover you use it to access help menu. A left-click on the icon allows the quick mounting/dismounting of images. Directly after installation Windows assigns the next free drive letter to the newly installed PHANTOM CDROM drive but after the next reboot Windows automatically puts it in first place giving it the lowest drive letter of your current CDROM drive(s). This behaviour is common for ALL SCSI CDROM drives newly installed to your system, no matter if it is a virtual or physical drive. This behaviour is NOT special for DAEMON Tools. Anyway if you want to keep your old CDROM drive letter(s) make sure you're logged in with administrative privileges and then go to "Start"-->"Programs"-->"Administrative Tools"-->"Computer Management" and open "Storage"-->"Disk Management" folder. Right-click on the CDROM device you want to change and select "Change Drive Letter And Path...". Since version 2.2 DAEMON Tools is compatible with Win 2K's "hibernation" and "standby" modes! Note for ALL operating systems: ----------------------------------- Virtual DAEMON Manager starts with Windows by default. You can disable this behaviour in the DAEMON manager's 'Options' menu by unchecking 'Autostart'! You can (re-)start the manager manually using the 'DAEMON Tools' shortcut placed on your desktop during setup. The protection emulation will not be active until you enable one or more of them in DAEMON manager's 'Emulation' menu. The DAEMON manager icon will turn green to signalize that one or more emulations are active. The protection emulations work for all your CDROM drives. After reboot previously mounted Images are remounted if 'Autostart' in 'Options' menu is enabled. Virtual drives are remounted already before manager loads and can be used with programs that access CDROM even before your Desktop is fully initialized. If you want to have emulation(s) automatically activated after boot up but do not want to see the DAEMON manager tray icon for some reason disable the 'Taskbar icon' option. To start the DAEMON manager manually use the 'DAEMON Tools' desktop icon. Since version 2.2 it is possible to disable ALL virtual PHANTOM CDROM drives. To do so right-click the DAEMON Manager icon and select "Virtual CDROM" --> "Select number of devices..." --> "Disable. In Windows NT you will have to reboot to see the effect. Note for Windows NT/2000/XP: ---------------------------- Automatic remounting of network images after reboot requires user login and can be performed only when 'Virtual DAEMON Manager' starts. If you have Windows 'Autoinsert Notification' (AIN) enabled the automatically remounted images will 'Autorun' as the mounting of an image is nothing else as putting a physical CD to a CDROM drive. Uninstalling DAEMON Tools: ------------------------------ To uninstall DAEMON Tools go to "Start" --> "Settings" --> "ControlPanel" --> "Software" and select 'DAEMON Tools'. DAEMON Tools will be completely removed from your PC. Windows NT may require a reboot to completely uninstall the drivers. In Windows 9x/ME/2000 all drivers are removed from the system immediately. If you reinstall DAEMON Tools directly after Uninstall a reboot may be required to completely remove the previously uninstalled drivers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Credits: Many thanks to all people whose ideas were used and who helped us with advices and suggestions. Oliver Kastl (CloneCD developer): Big thanks for description of CCD format! Your advices are also greatly appreciated! Jacques (Blindwrite suite developer): Thanks for your advices concerning bad sector emulation and the description of Blindwrite's BWT format! Mirco Caramori (Padus): Big thanks for providing pfctoc.dll that allows mounting .cdi images! Elicz: Your cool methods will be used soon... Pedro (Laxity): OK, man! Your Generic SafeDisc Patch inspired me to create this program. You were a pioneer - your name will be carved in stone!;-) BardiA (author of LL32ICA): Big thanks for your information and advices concerning Laserlock protection. Also big thanks to people who supplied information on new games! Their help can not be under-estimated especially in the early era of old Safedisc emulator when all this was only in the beginning. We'll never forget ya, boyZ!;-) Thanks to: Allen James - for making sector dump from original 'Tiberian Sun' CDs Neil Cabana - for dumping 'Age Of Empires II' Chad Trotter - for supplying info on MDK2 and 'Emperor: Battle for Dune' Thomas Nussbaumer - for sending us the dump of GP3 BigGadget - for GP3 info (thanks Cisco for cooperation!) Chuky (Martin) - for extensive info on 'Outcast' with numerous dumps! This greatly helped improve Securom emulation! Thanks for Fallout2 info too! Aldo Vargas - for help with 'Scrabble' (PSX) Olivier Gaudy - for sending us information about Laserlock games working with Securom emulation Justin Barrick - for help with Windows Whistler Beta 1. Riedquat - for info about Novell Netware Client32 architecture in Windows9x. Toby Miller - for 'Emperor' dumps. Kegetys - for 'Max Payne' dump. Special thanx (in alphabetical order) go to Alan Martin, Aldo Vargas, CeeJay, Chuky, Cisco, Copytrooper, Locutus, NeTsurFer, Ohio13, Olivier Gaudy, XiT and the other Beta Test Team members. And of course all others who helped us with advices or ideas. Your help is greatly appreciated! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal: * This program is NOT freeware. * If you don't use this program for commercial purposes you do not have to register a license and are allowed to use this software for free. But if you want to support our work you may do so, of course. Plz contact us for details. This private license is always limited until the next version of this software is released. * If you use this program commercially (e.g. in a company, internet cafe etc.) somehow you must license it! Please contact us for details. * You are only allowed to use this program if you are a legal owner of the original CD and you want to create or use a backup of your original CD. * Feel free to use this package in other FREE products, as long as you leave this package unmodified and include credits to author. If you want to include this software in a commercial product plz contact us for permission! * This software is provided "as is". The authors cannot be held responsible for any loss of data or other misfortunes resulting from the use of this program. * Likewise the authors cannot be held responsible for the use or misuse of this software.