Ok, this is something I thought about posting a few days ago and the PrePatched thread made me decide to go ahead and post it, for the better part of the year I have been creating Pre-Cracked games that upon install to the user appear to be just like the retail install nothing extra to check nothing. but behind the scenes I have a few things going on. I have a file which is launched usually named Setup.exe and the old one is renamed to Cracked-Install.exe. This exe is a bat file converted to exe using EXEScript 3.0 with the silent option checked so you can not see the dos box. Once the install has finished it then changed directiory to CD\CRACK where it runs any update patches, then the original files that are replaced by the nocd patch are renamed to FILENAME.BAK and then the nocd patch is applied. but that is all transparent. Only thing you can see is original install then the updates install. on minor updates such as hotfixes like the Frontlines fuel of war, I show the update installing then since 2 files are only replaced aside from the cracked exe i just copied the 2 from the hotfix and had my script replace
them. I have done this with over 200 pc games. and it works on pc apps in the same way as well. One thing I do for my own personal collection is remake a menu that resembles the retail but with a button for Keygen. If this is a idea that the ops would be interested in me posting more on let me know in the mean time this is a example. This is what I did for Frontlines Fuel of War.
Code:
@echo off
Setup.exe
CD Crack
FFOW-EFIS_PATCH_TO_V1.0.1.exe
rename "C:\Program Files\THQ\Frontlines-Fuel of War\Readme.TXT" READMEOLD.TXT
Copy README.TXT "C:\Program Files\THQ\Frontlines-Fuel of War\"Readme.TXT
rename "C:\Program Files\THQ\Frontlines-Fuel of War\Binaries\FFOW.exe" FFOW.bak
Copy FFOW.exe "C:\Program Files\THQ\Frontlines-Fuel of War\Binaries\"FFOW.exe
rename "C:\Program Files\THQ\Frontlines-Fuel of War\Binaries\OpenAL32.dll" OpenAL32.bak
Copy OpenAL32.dll "C:\Program Files\THQ\Frontlines-Fuel of War\Binaries\"OpenAL32.dll
Update - Also there are certain games that once the original exe is launched it launches a secondary one that is copied to the pc then closed so the bat thinks it is closed and continues for these instead of using the code right after it, I use an if then else statement with a verification check on the exe and that it has been backed up before it proceeds. The updates on these kind of files are a lil hard as it takes a while to figure out exactly what was the last file to be copied. The good thing about all this is once its done and a new update comes out you can either replace the files on the disk or if need be you can have it run 2 updates exescript by default does not hide the code so a simple notepad and dragging your file into it will reveal the code at the bottom. The entire CD takes only a 50kb hit adding the cracked installer made this way.
P.S. can the ops add a poll to this I dont know how to add it after its allready submitted.