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downloaded the funny.rar, unrar'd, ran it, messagebox appeared, looked game exited, i set eax = 1 at the end of the check to bypass the exit and the cdrom did indeed pop out, however i also set a breakpoint on typical cdrom checks none broke so i guess more files are needed for the exe to get to the actual check and i really couldnt be bothered debugging it any more

giving locations of where you were patching / working from might have helped as well krondike.. i gues you're new to this
a simple xreference on the 'Please insert game disk' string takes you to 4f476dh, scroll up a bit i see a test eax,eax at 4f4762 which seems to jump over the message box nag, so investigate the call above it, it should return eax being non zero if the check or whatever passed, now scroll down a bit to 4f47ca, theres a string reference to 'set cdaudio door open'.. could that be whats popping out your cdrom?.. start debugging, and like i said not all cracks are simple 7x->90 or 7x->eb type patches