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    Default NoIntro ROMs and Copy Protection

    Guys, I am quite new to emulation (as you will notice right now) and I have some NoIntro sets (Amiga for example). I know NoIntro's goal is to to have only the best ROMs in their untouched genuine version. For me this is all nice and a great goal... until today as I learned I can't run some games as they still contain the copy protection (happened with "Super Cars 2" on Amiga. It just says "Protection failed"). So some NoIntro ROMs just seem to not be runnable
    You will probably say now "You wanted the original untouched ROMs and you got them!". Well yes, but how do you guys handle those protections? Are the NoIntro ROMs just meant for preservation purpose and you better use another set if you actually want to play the ROMs?

    Thanks for hints guys!

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    one way to go about it, is get 'winuae' (latest. can't link, rules stuff me royal) or whatever amiga emu that can run an os, like workbench or osx. (wb preferable)
    the, look into 'whdload' and get that, install it into the workbench os. (get HFO for workbench too.)
    it's for bypassing copy-protection on games and installing to harddisks on amiga computers/cd32.
    will work for a properly setup emulator.
    winuae does have a floppy drive emulator for floppy disk images (adf, adz, dms...etc) but if using that, and there's no patch in place advance (cracked/trained on the disk image itself, or installed to harddisk) the same problem may be faced.
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    would be easier to find a cracked image with copy-protection busted, the same as bootleg pass around copies days...
    and load that image.
    you have an original dump by the sounds of it, and amiga games with CP was a norm...and cracked like pc games are today.
    oh, ask at an amiga dedicated forum for the programs, or web search may help.
    all the best.
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    correction.
    Last edited by amiga1200; 15th-October-2016 at 21:41.

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    No intro Amiga and Atari ST sets are aimed at real hardware owners, you would be better off with a Tosec set instead of No-intro's for those two systems

    No intro is great for alot of systems for emulation and is preferable but not all of them

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    Thanks gentlemen, I understand. I'll go hunting then

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