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Arcade Collecting => Merit/JVL Touchscreen => Topic started by: Driftek on July 30, 2024, 05:48:53 pm
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I cloned the old IDE drive inside of my model: KOV-105-104 Merit mega touch to a SSD and used a converter with the jumper set to master to boot the drive using the IDE cable. I verified that the serial numbers match after the clone. It boots up, but it tells me that my key is invalid for the software. If I put the old IDE drive in then it makes it past the key check. Is the hardware key locked to a hard drive? What am I missing here?
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The key isn't locked to a drive, but there is a hard drive model check in Force 2004. The game reads the model from /proc/ide/ide0/hda/model, so it's easy to bypass.
Adding something like this in a boot script should do the trick:
echo MERIT0011 > /tmp/hd
mount -n -o bind /tmp/hd /proc/ide/ide0/hda/model
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Thank you! I’ll give that a shot
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The key isn't locked to a drive, but there is a hard drive model check in Force 2004. The game reads the model from /proc/ide/ide0/hda/model, so it's easy to bypass.
Adding something like this in a boot script should do the trick:
echo MERIT0011 > /tmp/hd
mount -n -o bind /tmp/hd /proc/ide/ide0/hda/model
That did the trick! Thank you.
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the "merit0011" custom hard drive model check was removed beginning with the 2005 software year. the installer software will complain of a non-merit drive being installed (buy a merit drive for reliability and performance and whatnots message) but will still install after a short delay of displaying the message.