SafeCast?

RAIDER1 · #1 23-06-2002, 14:52

Just wondering if anyone out there either knows of or is working on a SafeCast unwrapper or a way to keep a program working while removing the safecast installation. I don't like the idea of having a hidden directory on my system that is doing god knows what.

Any news on this would be appreciated.

themis_t · #2 23-06-2002, 16:15

if you really want something like that go and steal a pirate or someone that has these things.....

themis_t · #3 24-06-2002, 14:43

that's y i told him thhese things before.....

RAIDER1 · #4 24-06-2002, 18:48

Other than the fact that I hardly understand what you are trying to tell me there mis....

"Steal a pirate?"

What, you want me to steal a pirated copy of a piece of software I own?

As for the unwrapper, I have seen unsafedisc v 2.40 and it DOES contain an older version of the safedisc unwrapper...but the version I am dealing with is much newer (there is also an unsafedisc 2.5 out but it doesn't contain tools for safecast) . Probably just came out not that long ago. Even SafeDiscAnalyser doesn't know the version number, all it can say is that the original exe (which was not affected by the upgrade that installed safecast) was safedisc 2.51

I can make perfect copies of this disc...I'm not worried about that. I want a way to remove the safecast protection so I won't have that spyware macrovision crap on my machine no more.

And r1sc's site hasn't worked in a long time....unless someone has a new link?

RAIDER1 · #5 25-06-2002, 15:52

Sorry Cirkutz, didn't put 2 and 2 together there....Now I know who I'm talkin to

The software in question is the IS Mech Pack Expansion for Mechwarrior 4 which is installed over top of both the original game and the BlackKnight expansion.

When I say the original exe was untouched....that is, that it was wrapped with safedisc 2.51 (as installed off of the BlackKnight CD) and did not change after the install of the mech pack itself. (same properties).

the mechpack used safecast (and yes, it is confirmed to be safecast, but version unknown). It installs off of a dir called CDSET from the CD automatically and contains the following files:

CDAC14BA.DLL 110 kb
CDAC21BA.DLL 2,972 kb (says ver 2.2.40.0)
SCSHD.CSA 2 kb
SCSHD.EXE 482 kb

Unlike the first two portions of this game, this CD requires a serial number to install....which is not a problem, but during the process of installation, it creates a C-DILLA directory (hidden btw and at no time is the user notified that this is being installed). Within this dir is another dir called "SafeCast Product Licenses". Inside that dir is a .dat file which I presume holds specific license information for the particular program I am running.

In all my research on this program, most sites indicate that upon uninstall of ALL programs that require the SafeCast loader to be installed, SafeCast is supposed to remove itself. In this case (surprise), it does NOT. Even after full uninstall of the game, the dir, the .dat and all of the C-DILLA entries in the registry are still present. This is what scares me into not using this software at all and the reason I want the means to disable that portion of the software.

Hope that info gives more help...

themis_t · #6 25-06-2002, 16:18

wheb i told you steal a pirate i meant that you can steal pirates tools....

themis_t · #7 26-06-2002, 14:44

no choises

RAIDER1 · #8 26-06-2002, 17:15

Oh, just FYI.

for research purposes only....I found that there are three processes running in the background that if stopped, the add-on program will no longer function.

CDAD11BA.exe runs ALL the time and win2k tells you that it cannot be stopped.

~f51e43.tmp
~ef7194.tmp both run when you run the add-on program.

If any of these two are stopped at any time, the program tells you that you must reinstall.

Lonewolf1779 · #9 26-06-2002, 20:07

I'm interested in Mech Pak.
The problem is that after installation of that add-on I have message "IS Mech Pak installed succesfully", but there are no new mechs in game, and when I try to use some new aquipment on old mechs it sais that "I must buy IS mech pak to use it".
I think that I need crack for that scshd.exe? May be someone know where I can get it?
P.S. I'm a newby in all that things, so sorry for such questions. And sorry for my English (I know it on the level of the secondary school. I hope you'll understand me

themis_t · #10 27-06-2002, 14:45

it'ok about your english but i can't get y this happens...i don't think, it's the crack thing...

GB_Gurkah · #11 02-09-2002, 18:59

Hi probaly th wrong place too ask is there a way of unwarping bf1942.exe "safecast very new " becouse the safedisc remover dont work !!

JoyBoy · #12 02-09-2002, 19:57

Quote:

Originally posted by GB_Gurkah
Hi probaly th wrong place too ask is there a way of unwarping bf1942.exe "safecast very new " becouse the safedisc remover dont work !!

Has Battlefield: 1942 been released anywhere yet?