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Game Jackal Pro 3 Review: Third Times A Charm

Slysoft GameJackal Pro detail information

Posted by Womble
Posted on 11/03/08 03:23
Manufacturer Slysoft
Product Slysoft GameJackal Pro
Description Using your game's original CD or DVD, create a Game Jackal profile that enables you to play without the CD in the drive.
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Game Jackal Overview

 

Game Jackal’s Own Words:

Game Jackal Pro is the ultimate "must have" killer app for the PC gamer! If you, like most gamers, find it annoying looking for and inserting the CD-ROM for your favourite game each time you play it, then Game Jackal Pro is for you.

Keeping your gaming investment safe: One major concern gamers have is the CD's life span. The CD-ROM for a popular game may be inserted and removed many hundreds of times, this of course leads to the inevitable "Unable to read" error and ultimately a trip to the trash.

Unleash your games and go gaming "CD free" in seconds: Using Game Jackal Pro eliminates the need to insert the CD-ROM before playing your favourite title, therefore allowing you to fire up your favourite game in seconds.

Easy to use: Game Jackal Pro provides the user with a powerful and easy to use interface to go gaming "CD free". It does this without modifying any of your game's files or installing any virtual drives on your system. Simply select the game you want to play from the Game Jackal Pro interface, or create a desktop shortcut for even faster access.

Image mode: Image mode adds support for games that need to stream data directly from the CD or DVD during game play.

Keep young eyes from playing games that may be not right for them: Game Jackal Pro comes complete with a feature called Guardian Control, this feature allows restrictions to be placed on game profiles.

Young gamers can make short work of a game CD: Being able to pack away the game CD has proven to be extremely popular with parents of young gamers, where a game can be destroyed in weeks!

There's no other product like it: The simple fact is that Game Jackal Pro stands alone. There's no other product on the market that delivers the flexibility and functionality that Game Jackal Provides.

 

Program Features:

  • Create profiles right from the desktop with the new "One-click" profile creation option. Simply right-click any game icon on your desktop (or anywhere else for that matter) and select "Convert to Game Jackal Profile", a much simplified creation wizard guides you through a 2 step process.
  • Unused profiles can now be moved to an archive section allowing you to keep only your current favourites in the "My Game Profile" section.
  • A new "plug-in" interface is now available, this allows third-party developers to create plug-ins for Game Jackal Pro.
  • Right-click popup menu for profiles, this provides a faster and easier way to manage profiles.
  • Improved reliability, support and performance for many games and hardware configurations.
  • Support for multi processor hardware, including the ability to specific processor(s) on for each profile.
  • Image mode, for games that need to stream data from the CD or DVD during game play.
  • An easy to use interface, providing the user with a single tool for "CD free" gaming.
  • The creation of a Game Jackal Profile is performed while you are playing your favourite game!
  • Using the auto update feature, your version of Game Jackal Pro will always be the latest version available.
  • Guardian Control, this feature allows for the password protection of game profiles in addition to specifying when and how long a game can be played.
  • No longer do you need to find and insert the game's CD-ROM.
  • Preserve the original game's CD-ROM: one of the problems with having a favourite game is that the CD-ROM gets damaged over time.
  • Game load times are dramatically shortened

 

System Requirements:

  • 500 MHz Processor
  • 64 Mb Ram
  • Windows 2000 / XP/ Vista 32bit
  • 12 MB hard-disk space

Additional space will be required for each game profile that you make as well.

The software package is about 3.5mb’s in size so you will be looking at roughly 10mins to download it on a 56k modem.

 

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I use this software on my HTPC to play games and it is really, really a great product. Anyone can play a game without futzing around looking for the CD. Also, I don't think it could be any easier to use and as Womble says, the nice thing (like AnyDVD) you forget it is even there since it is so transparent. :)
It's not supporting the latest versions of securom, safedisc and there's no support for tages, starfoce, etc...
It's nice for the working titles but it gets blacklisted like any other software (alcohol/dtools, virtual cd) using an emulation method for the copy protection which makes you able playing the game you want without the disc.
This message was edited at: 11-03-2008 19:58
Damn is Starforce still around? I thought they got run off by angry gamers and various game boycotts. Too bad, that is a nasty protection and I don't want any product on my computer that carries it.
Lately I don't find any protections anymore at all on my discs, so I have the idea that protections are getting less and less important?
Well instead of putting protection on the dics it looks like many game devs are going the Steam route. I.E. requiring online activation. So copy the disc becomes rather a moot point.
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