Rayman 2 Multilanguage PC trouble

[Silverian]

I have tried various No-CD cracks that I found on the net, but any of them seem to work properly. I can play the game well using Daemon 4.08, but I don't want to have the CD-image all the time in my HDD.

Besides, all the cracks I have seen to have the same CRC, so they're the same.

Can someone please tell me how to make the No-CD crack to work? :(

[Joe Forster/STA]

What do you mean they don't work properly? Crashes, error messages (exact quote!)? What cracks have you tried? Read the forum FAQ for infos on how to report problems properly.

[TippeX]

hmm afaik there are NO cracks for that game out as of yet... so i really truly hope you virus scanned those supposed cracks before running them...

[Joe Forster/STA]

Now what game are we talking about? The latest from the series is Rayman four (4)!

[TippeX]

oops thought he meant raving rabbids...

[Silverian]

Well, there's only one game called Rayman "2" for the PC, Joe Forster/STA...

And what I meant to say that they don't work properly it's that I replaced the original .exe with the various "supposed" cracks and the game still asks for the CD. I didn't know that SafeDiscv1 protection was so hard to crack. :eek:

[chron]

you can crack sd1 for yourself using one of the safedisc unpackers available on cdmediaworld.com.

But i think there is probably an additional cd check or you have to copy some files (eg video files) from the cd to the game dir.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Yup, as chron said, try to do a full (re-)installation of the game. If it doesn't help, read entry III/4 of the forum FAQ and contact me in E-mail.

[acal3000]

I haven't played this game in a long but i remember I couldn't get any of the cracks to work in that timeeither I think they were fakes. Anyways the game doesn't have any copyprotection Only the cd check. Works with a if you make a copy of the original disk or with an image mounted

[Joe Forster/STA]

Yes, please, scan the game with Protection ID and tell us the exact copy protection (name, version number).

[Silverian]

Well, ClonyDXXL v.2.0.1.5 only says SafeDisc v1.

Protection ID 5.2 says "[!] Possible CD/DVD-Check String -> Please insert" when I scan the main .exe, if I scan any other file it says "File is NON exe" :confused:

I used another scanner (which name I don't remember) and it said SafeDisc v1 r2

[Joe Forster/STA]

Please, collect the files, as described in the FAQ entry I mentioned, and send them to me.

[Silverian]

Here are the files.

Only 1Mb http://rapidshare.com/files/8064041/Rayman2.rar.html :cool:

[Joe Forster/STA]

For the curious: the EXE unpacks fine with r!sc's enlarge 1.3 (for Petite); see http://www.absolutelock.de/construction/releases.html for a download. ;) But there are several places where something that, at least, looks like a CD check is done and I'm not sure which is a CD check and which is reading files off the CD for real...

Is there a full installation mode of the game where nothing is supposed to remain on the CD, everything is copied onto the hard disk and the CD is used for the copy ptotection only?

[cdkiller]

Build 2006-12-18
> Ready

Scanning -> E:\Rayman2.exe
File Type : Exe, Size : 676397 (0A522Dh) Bytes
-> File has 383151 (05D8AFh) bytes of appended data starting at offset 04797Eh
[!] Petite v2.2 compressed !
- Scan Took : 0.672 Seconds

unpacked with olly in 3 secs via esp trick...
0045FCC0 is oep, fix with imprec, done...

Scanning -> E:\dump_.exe
File Type : Exe, Size : 1155072 (011A000h) Bytes
[!] Possible CD/DVD-Check String -> Please insert
- Scan Took : 0.609 Seconds

a quick look in olly showed 2 cd-checks...
00448E39 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[5113EC]
00405856 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[5113EC]
-> patch to MOV EAX,1 and its successfull (atleast the exe runs without complaining about missing dll ;P)

[Silverian]

Well, the game has Full Install and Minimum Mr. Joe

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1940/rm2installgi5.jpg :rolleyes:

[Silverian]

Build 2006-12-18
> Ready

Scanning -> E:\Rayman2.exe
File Type : Exe, Size : 676397 (0A522Dh) Bytes
-> File has 383151 (05D8AFh) bytes of appended data starting at offset 04797Eh
[!] Petite v2.2 compressed !
- Scan Took : 0.672 Seconds

unpacked with olly in 3 secs via esp trick...
0045FCC0 is oep, fix with imprec, done...

Scanning -> E:\dump_.exe
File Type : Exe, Size : 1155072 (011A000h) Bytes
[!] Possible CD/DVD-Check String -> Please insert
- Scan Took : 0.609 Seconds

a quick look in olly showed 2 cd-checks...
00448E39 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[5113EC]
00405856 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[5113EC]
-> patch to MOV EAX,1 and its successfull (atleast the exe runs without complaining about missing dll ;P)

I just can't understand what you did... or what this is supposed to mean :confused:

[TippeX]

he explained how he cracked it, using cracker / coder terminology, so it might have gone over your head...
the cdcheck thing could however probably be better done by checking for a write to dword @ 5113ec and patching that, probably only happens once
like mov dword ptr ds:[5113ec], eax
or whatever... patch the proc, not the parts that check ...

[Silverian]

"patch the proc"

What the hell is a proc??? :eek:

[TippeX]

proc = procedure... (code routine)

[Silverian]

So, are all of you guys telling me how to crack the game myself? Because with my current experience in the subject I think I will not gonna be able to do that... That's actually the reason I'm posting here. :D

Can anyone please share the cracked files to play Rayman 2 without CD to the starter of the thread? :p

[Joe Forster/STA]

Have you done a full istallation?

[Silverian]

Of course I have done a Full Installation, I hate the Minimum ones, I hate to scratch or damage my CDs.