A Vampire's Story - RLD vs. VTY vs. DemoExe

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Hi,

I am not that far into reversing but the fight between Reloaded and Vitality seems to be rediculous. It's about the readnfos and propers from vty und rld for the Vampire's Story.

Vitality propers by a dumb reason. The game has a bug which provokes a crash on vista systems that is catched by the securom exception handler. That is why the unprotected exe crashes on vista systems after exiting.
VTY fixed the bug which is caused by a third party dll which has nothing to do with the copy protection. Also VTY has done an emu crack. In the past VTY propered RLD/FLT for creating emu cracks...

That was the vty stuff - going on with reloaded.

Reloaded never released a fully securom rebuilt crack in the last time, just emulated the vm which results in a bigger file size. But in this release there are not even securom pe sections.
Is it possible that they just took the demo exe and rebuilt the pe header so that the file looks different?
The demo exe seems to make the game fully playable with all movie sequences and save availability.
I rebuilt both crack and demo exe using LordPE which results both in exactly the same filesize but not same crc.
Maybe someone with more reversing skills could to check this.

Just my two thoughts...