Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

[BlueMan0025]

Originally Posted by meganassi

i don't really think, that any cracker had tried to patch the demo-exe. maybe it works, maybe you can add deleted options back to the exe.

Be realistic, it will never be possible to add the deleted options, and the demo doesn't need to be cracked (it' not protected !), but tweaked.

The only thing that you can hope, is to use the existing demo options (start a new game, load/save, options) on all game levels instead of just the 1st. You will -never- have the missed functions (like multiplayer).

I've to say that i've get some success with this method, playing with the different patchs and/or exe+dll. A lot of mixing, but the result is there. Unfortunately, it seems that the game is not very stable, but it's probably coming from the fact that the demo itself was buggy and not completly finished when released.

Note that my objective was not to crack SF3, but to circumvent it, and it's working. But, just to give you another idea, keep in mind that SF3 is encrypting the original game, and decrypt it in RAM when running. If you consider that many of the source code of the demo should be identical to the decrypted full-game, this could help some to find the decryption sequence. (the crypto key is easier to find if you have both the encrypted and desencrypted object in front of you). I'm not at all playning in this league, but at least this shows to the sceptical that a demo exe is still usable when trying to crack the original.

Tchao

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