Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Copy protected?)

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Copy protected?)

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Hi!

I'm trying to start this adventure game from "Joriko",but it seems to be copy protected.
(ask to insert proper CD).Has anyone run this game or know what the problem is?

Link is https://www.legendsworld.net/adventure/game/9406

Thanks for any kind of help!
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Re: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Copy protected?)

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More DRM'd Macromedia/Adobe Director vidya, like "Uncle Albert" & "C'est pas Sorcier" series etc :!: "Thankfully", this only has SafeDisc v1, & nowadays there are tons of ways to bugger it off: https://blog.paavo.me/masa-copy-protection/
Reddit suggests running the main file(s) with an external Director player - and it works (if not latest, then any earlier build will do): https://archive.org/details/ProjectorSk ... 12.0.0.111
Simply starting Projector.exe and opening (for example) start.dir in the disc/ISO works off the bat (as well as most other Director titles): https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/l54dxq
ABSOLUTE BEST is directly unwrapping (CRK'ing) the affected executable(s) - though that requires manually copying the disc contents (and this very title has no Install, only Play): https://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/c ... ls_8.shtml
There's also this tool that "emulates" SafeDisc 1 functions on modern 'puters (for more "adventurous" users - the options above are INFINITELY better than this): https://github.com/RibShark/SafeDiscShim
Lastly, bonus video longplay found by random chance (not mine): https://www.dailymotion.com/xyzzy31
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Re: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Copy protected?)

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Thanks man!
You put a lot of effort into giving me all these links and explanations,and its highly appretiated!
I downloaded Projector Director,Unsafedisk and Safediskshim,but for this game not of it works (for now) or it demands
a lot of tweakings,and i'm total amateur.(i'll not give up easily,but this need time to figure it out).Main problem of this game is that
its not work on Windows 10,and on the other side these utilities don't work with WinXP (or older OSes).I managed to start single movie with
Projector Director,but not whole game from the start.Eighter i'm totally dull,eighter these programs needs really some knowledge (a lot of errors
like for instance "Random Error" 😄)...i'll continue to tweak (🙄),but i was in hope for some easier solution like "crack" or similar.For this game is
the best option to buy it,but question is where?!
Thanks again for LARGE spectre of options to try!

EDIT : With projector i managed to open start.bat and other MOVIES from the game CD (but one by one)...even play puzzles,but
all of it is not connected,and not in full screen...yet its the best achievement for now.As for utility "unsafedisk" its from game to game.
Each game i presume need exact version of unsafedisk...huh! I'm not at all surprised that this game isn't on any abandonware site :(
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Re: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Copy protected?)

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I'm "close" to a solution with the "unsafedisk" utility,but I really don't understand some executive
issues with it.The program wants to decrypt the ICD file but it's nowhere on the iso image?!How to
decrypt something non existing?!

Also one guy on "Moby Games" forum told me that copy protected games with "Safedisk" shouldn't
be in ISO,but in BIN\CUE format (cause of data reading during creating of image?!)

If anybody knows literally ANYTHING please help!
This is so close at first sight,yet so complicated!
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