nocd patch for monopoly vers. 1996'

[blubberblub]

hi@all how can i produce a nocd patch for this game?
gcw and all other have no in there datebase

the game is only 22mb big but always he want to have the cd

is that possible?
thx

[Joe Forster/STA]

Read entry III/4 of the PC Games forum FAQ.

[blubberblub]

ok thanks whem iam right, it sounds like this
Where can I find a crack for (a given version of) an old/small game?


and now the post log

-=[ ProtectionID v0.6.0.0 BETA XMAS 2007 PREVIEW]=-
(c) CDKiLLER & TippeX
Build 12/24/07-16:18:13
Ready...
Scanning -> C:\Spiele\MONOPOLY\MONOPOLY.EXE
File Type : Exe, Size : 290816 (047000h) Byte(s)
[!] Possible CD/DVD-Check String -> CD-ROM drive
[!] File appears to have no protection or is using an unknown protection
- Scan Took : 0.906 Seconds


the game wants to have the cd in the first cd drive
what is going on now?

thanks for help ;)

[DABhand]

Man dont post the whole game in an archive!

Kill that link lol

[Joe Forster/STA]

Yes, package up only those files that are necessary to make the game display the "insert CD" or similar message. (This is mentioned in the FAQ.)

[blubberblub]

ok that should be this
http://www.speedshare.org/download.php?id=9713A4EF3

[Joe Forster/STA]

The main executable is not enough. Read the FAQ more carefully and package up the necessary DLL's, too.

[blubberblub]

oh iam so sorry,

here now the complete package
http://www.speedshare.org/download.php?id=D087D60D11

[Joe Forster/STA]

1. Install the game and copy the contents of the MONOPOLY directory (in the root directory) from the CD into the game installation directory. These should include the subdirectories called MSOUND16, MSOUND, SOUNDS, MOVIES, BACKGRND, POSTMONO, SHAPES, MAPTABLE. (Taken from the game executable.)

2. Create an empty file called C00L.VQA (those are zeros, not letter O's) in the MOVIES directory, if it doesn't already exists there.

3. Apply the attached patch to MONOPOLY.EXE. (My homepage is currently down and I don't want to bother with file hosting sites.)

+1. The game also needs the WinG graphics library which can be downloaded from here http://www.otakuworld.com/toys/utils.html . Or just grab WING32.DLL from a DLL download site and put it into the Windows system directory.

Please, reply if this worked for you.

[blubberblub]

ok i became two types of errors

1.) *.DDL für Dialogfelder nicht gefunden. Bitte das Spiel neuinstallieren
*. DDL for dialog boxes not found. Please reinstall the game

2.) or it says that he doesn't found the cd and when i close the game the start-sound from the game start's

[Joe Forster/STA]

Sorry, that's the best I could come up with "blindly", without having the complete game myself. Alternative solution: create an image of the game CD, mount it into Daemon Tools, make sure that the emulated CD drive has the lowest drive letter of all CD drives (!) and play.

[blubberblub]

yes thats the way i start the game
could you do more when you have an image of the game?

[DABhand]

cant do that blubber that would fall into warez. giving a full image of a game to someone comes under that.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Create a batch file that mounts the image, launches the game, waits for the game to finish and the unmounts the image. Then you can play the game absolutely trouble-free.

Here a sample batch file that mounts the image specified on the command line and unmounts the current one when no file name has been specified. Set DTOOLSPATH to where Daemon Tools is installed on your PC...

@echo off
set DTOOLSPATH=F:\PROGRAMS\DTOOLS
if `%1` == `` goto unmount
start %DTOOLSPATH%\daemon -mount 0,%1
goto end
:unmount
start %DTOOLSPATH%\daemon -unmount 0
:end
set DTOOLSPATH=

[DarkKnightShade]

...

Please, reply if this worked for you.

Nope. Game still asked for the CD.

[TippeX]

ok, send me a dir/s > dirlist.txt from the cd/dvd drive (ie: give me a file/dir list)
and do the same for the game installation directory...

i think i see what needs patched :) but need to confirm it against filenames....