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if thats all you've done then you need to do more work and research, commercial game protections are hugely different from the 'casual' protections you have mentioned, i also wouldn't call UPX a protection, its a primitive packer, and unpacking it is incredibly basic

i also wouldn't work from any cracks FLT did, they're shit and have been since april 2004

i have on many occasions made a virgin file.. it is NOT impossible, it takes time and effort, don't try to equate your limitations to mine..

the securom vm checking isn't just cpuid based, thats just binding, you still need to decrypt the script data stream and reverse that back to x86 code..

try learning old securom first.. v5 or so, and safedisc 2,3,4 then move on.. you seem to think that you're 'at the level' to do these protections, and really you're not.. you need to research more, debug more, find out how things work in the protections yourself.. not reading some tuts out there (which btw the ones you mentioned are crap).. sometimes you need to actually do your own methods, figure out how things work, experiment, crash, pick yourself up, experiment again, then you might actually see light at the end of the tunnel, instead of chasing your tail and thinking you're learning something when you are really not