@Dimensio
Yes the Hijack crack still works with the latest Steam Update. But this is how I did it. Firstly I moved Hijacks cracks (the 3 files, I am still using Hijacks first crack) to a different folder, and started the game in online mode to get the update. Then after updating i shifted Hijacks crack back to where it should be. Then disabled my Internet connection and started the game in the Offline mode. Everything works fine still without the CD in the drive. And I only updated today! ;)

Sounds like you never fully completed the registration process. Go to Steam, right click on Half-Life 2 and pick Properties. If it says Offline Mode Not Ready, then you're not done. Just leave Steam online for the day and it should be done by the time you get back.

Buy the game. There is to be no discussion of Steam bypasses.

nope..it says offline mode: ready

hijack thing still dont work...

:(, replaced the hl2.exe with the one I extracted from the source engine.gcf and it says same as venom "The game is currently unavailable". I do remember hijack talking about the unprotected hl2.exe being *DISABLED* :mad: . If using hijack's "FIXED" exe is the only way to ENABLE it then, why tell me to extract it in the first place :p..

Can you play the game normally AND in offline mode without Hiijack's crack?

I cannot get the version 1.5 of hijack
 

Hi,

I used the bit-torrent appication in order to get the NoCD v.1.5 of Hijack but I cannot download it because the link is dead.

Can anyone send me this new version because with version 1 I could play my DVD version of Half Life 2 offline.

Thanks


kpoutous

I can't download the torrent also - can someone post / e-mail a working link

Yawn... You are the f_u_c.k_ing m_o_r_o_n who doesn't understand
WHY we must fight "trusted computing". You are also the robot who hits the "banned" button at my command. :D

Quite correct, since they are to be had in an endless abundance. :cool:

You may have the choice this time, but if valve gets away with it now, in 5 years all games will be "trusted computing".

Omg
 

I loaned a DVD drive from one of my buddies, installed my new bought game, and installed the hijack crack as I had to return the DVD drive the same day. The crack worked perfectly with both HL2 & CSS. Later that day, I try to run HL2 again, but suddenly I got this "No disc inserted" message. I'm thinking "wtf?!, it worked earlier without a disc?" - I then tryed to restart my computer etc., and running HL2 again, but I still got "No disc inserted" message. I then tryed to run HL2: Source, which I hadn't ran before. Boom, it suddenly worked again. Not only HL2S worked, but HL2 & CSS worked again. Later that day again, I get the same "No disc inserted" message. So I try to do everthing I did last time, but I still got it. That day I gave up and went to bed.

So today is a new day, and a new try... I've spended the last two hours trying to get my legal copy of HL2 working again, but still I get this freaking "No disc inserted" message! I have tryed everthing listed in this topic, done everything I did myself the last time.....

All in all, I've tryed everthing, but still I get this "No disc inserted" message. Can anybody help me?? I'm running WinXP Pro SP2 - and for a notice, all hl2.exe files is 1.91 MB..

yep works fine the normal way with cd in drive...game loads fine...but when i use hijack i get the "this game is curently unavailable" error when i try and load hl2

Any way around the securerom or whatever protection is on the european DVD?!?!

I've bought the bloody game - and my dvd-r drive (pika-one) won't recognise the dvd - ?!?!?

H E L P ! ! !