No matter what I do, I don't seem able to get past the FMV sequence in the first PDS disc. I am dumped straight to the BIOS screen. For the other discs, the same happens but no FMV plays before hand. I'm on Windows 7 x64. I have done the following:
- I've tried many CD images, including the ones Zorlon uploaded here.
- I've tried SSF 11a5, 12b3 and 12b4 (NB: Beta 4 puts black horizontal lines in the FMV).
- I have tried several different BIOS files, and no BIOS file. This seems unrelated.
- I have used Zorlon's settings file for his images above.
- I have repaired images using CDmage, although Zorlon's images were fine anyway.
- I've read through several threads where others have had this problem (mostly on here from the last 60 days).
- I have used Virtual Clonedrive, WinCDEmu, IMDisk, and Alcohol 52% (which didn't install right - just like always).
- I have not used Daemon Tools because the EULA seems dodgy. The EULA in the software includes several questionable data collection clauses (discussed here) which are not in the version that's online. It also includes the OpenCandy software - which their reps seem to deny on their own forum.
- WinCDEmu does not seem to work with SSF on my system.
- Virtual Clonedrive is the one which lets me play the FMV sequence on disc one.
I wondered if anyone had a working set-up without Daemon Tools, and if someone could help me fix the problems with my set-up? Based on what I've read, it seems unlikely that Daemon Tools is the only tool that works properly with SSF.
Thanks