Game Jackal Pro 3 Review: Third Times A Charm

Slysoft GameJackal Pro detail information

Posted by	Womble
Posted on	11/03/08 03:23
Number of views	6940
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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Installation:

The installation is a straight forward affair. Once the installations has completed the following screen will come up asking if you need a Profile Key created for you. This is a unique key that will stop your profiles from working on other machines. This is to prevent copying and distribution of games.

If you reinstall windows at any stage you will need this key to use any of your existing profiles again so I might want to copy it down somewhere.

Next the setup program will ask you to select a skin for Game Jackal. There are currently two skins that you can choose from, Default and Version 2.

Finally you will get a warning box come up regarding Windows Vista. This basically outlines that some of your games may not work under Vista but would under XP regardless of Game Jackal.
There are also some handy hints to help get a few more of your games working under Windows Vista.

That’s it for the setup. The program will now ask you to reboot the machine so that the engine can initialise properly.

Once your computer boots back up you will be ready to use Game Jackal.

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Posted by Crabbyappleton on Tuesday 11 March 2008 15:39

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.

Posted by kalas on Tuesday 11 March 2008 19:58

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

Posted by Crabbyappleton on Wednesday 12 March 2008 05:23

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.

Posted by goodhope on Wednesday 12 March 2008 09:06

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?

Posted by DeadMan on Thursday 13 March 2008 23:28

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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