Thats a mighty big code section in the crack :D
I guess they don't want to admit that they're dumping all those securom heaps.
Don't see whats wrong... Reloaded has been doing it for ages.

latest rld crack for runaway 2 german looks like a good rebuilded exe...
no more appended securom memory.

It would be nice to see more cracks like that one :)

This is probably because it has been rebuilt from the German download version like Ankh - the Heart of Osiris has been, too.

I don't think Reloaded was able to fully crack the new Securom. If they were there would have been Cracks for Armed Assault and Rayman from RLD.

come on guyz, it should be pretty easy to make a no DVD .exe for Win98SE. Given that one exists for the more complicated XP o.s. We are patiently waiting!

nope "new" fairlight doesn't care about secu-iat in their exe...if you unpack their executable, you might notice that the secu-iat is hardcoded :P
so it will work only on a few winxp's.
they made same thing up with rayman raving rabbids....i couldn't even start the exe (no ingame, no menue, nothing!)....but -ind fix worked, so far. i could come into menue and play...and its real fun :) ....
lets hope flt will notice the problem and do proper cracks.

qke

@Ironman69: The Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 API (functions built into the operating system) is much larger than that of Windows 95/98/ME. If the game's software uses a function that is present in the NT API but not in the 9x API then a 9x version of the crack won't be possible.

god, thats an awful way to crack

joe -> i think the game actually does run under 9x, i think it was posted in some other thread
the reason the crack doesnt work in 9x is because (as stated earlier), the exe crack has a
hard coded import table, which obviously wont have the right addresses for 9x, so fixing
it (the crack) to work on 9x would be a horrible task...

at least now we know why its upx packed

Horrible is the true word and I personally would call it a "dirty fix" instead of a pure crack

the game DOES and IS supported by Win98SE. And, any fix you guyz or FAIRLIGHT group can come up with to bypass SECUROM cr*p will be a prayer come true for us Win98 users!! Come on guyz you can do it!
F.Y.I. = the original file "IL2fb" is 3.7megs. After fairlight group modded it ...the file is only 3k larger..at 4 megs. The windows 98/ or 98SE crack shouldn't be that hard, prolly smaller in fact.

@ironman69 - its already been stated that the crack has hard coded api va's in it
and would be a total pain to fix, try the ind crack (if you can find it), maybe that will do it.. also its quite apparent that fairlight have 'limitations' cracking securom so until a proper crack comes out use your exe and stop asking the same damned question (6 posts.. same shit) over and over again when people have stated the reasons.. if you're so desperate then crack it yourself. otherwise use the original or upgrade your operating system that has been ditched by the people who made it (shouldn't that tell you something?)

damn man...chill out brothah!

I also feel that this thread is not going anywhere, especially, that none of us have any effect on whether and when cracks are released. Thread closed.