No CD required

[doctor_QZ]

Hi all- i am curious as to where i may start in learning how to write a vb app for the "no cd" required routine in game runtimes?If anyone would send me the source code for such a thing or maybe a HOW-TO if one exists i woul greatly appreciate it.

[podunkviller]

im guessing here, but VB probably isnt the code used....although it might be. HEX skills will pay off 10x more, though ;) ....the no-cd is code that redirects anything that looks at the cd to find it from the hard drive, and *guesses* sets a few jumps so that a cd-check is skipped. im not good with the assembly stuff, though, so i'm gonna shut up

[doctor_QZ]

Where could i learn such a thing.I program VB,J# ,C++ machine now so,I think i have a strong enough background to do it.If i had some source code to look at i think that'd help a bunch.! Thanks for the reply.

[podunkviller]

well....you have the cracks...you have the originals......take a hex editor, save whatever is being cracked into a file, crack it, save that as a hex file, and run diff on them. that will find exactly what is changed, where it is changed, and may be the 2nd step to understanding.

the first step, of course, is the hex......