C&C: The first Decade crack search

[kosmiq]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

If I may have a request, if someone manages to collect proper cracks for all games in this collection, could you, please, put them into one big archive and submit it to GCW? I think it would be very helpful to be able to find all of them in one place. Thanks!

If I somehow manage to gather cracks for all games that needs it I will of course make a pack and upload!

Edit:
If anyone has original versions of the games mentioned in my first post in this thread (aka NOT The First Decade pack) that you happen to know that generic patchers works with or you have old cracks left on a CD somewhere or similar Please contact me ASAP. PM is a good way.

[EMPiRE]

Most of them should be available @ GameFix

[Kanalradde]

Originally Posted by EMPiRE

Most of them should be available @ GameFix

The server @ 66.199.231.140:1080 seems to be down.

[kosmiq]

Yes gamefix is down and has been for a while now. otherwise it would've been solved long ago.

Also megagames has almost no cracks for the games.

However I managed to find my way through crackmanworld and get a working Yuris Revenge crack. Only problem there is that whenever the game is launched through the first decade menu it will complain about wrong disc inserted. Thats because the file the menu launches has CD-checks. However if one launches yuri's revenge directly through the cracked Yuri.exe it works...
Or works... maybe I should say starts without asking for disc or anything. I am still having the problem that the game hangs in the loading screen (before the game menu starts). Happens also when uncracked and running the original disc. Think I will test a reinstall later on when I have gathered the cracks.

[MontyBurns1985]

http://www.megagames.com/gcracks.html

(There are enough cracks for "Command & Conquer" games available @ MegaGames!)


By the way GameFix is online again, since today (15 February 2006)!

[kosmiq]

Originally Posted by MontyBurns1985

http://www.megagames.com/gcracks.html

(There are enough cracks for "Command & Conquer" games available @ MegaGames!)


By the way GameFix is online again, since today (15 February 2006)!

On megagames there are only cracks for the following C&C games:
Command & Conquer
Command & Conquer GOLD
Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour
Command & Conquer: Generals
Command & Conquer: Renegade

and none of those game I have requested cracks/.exe files for. So that won't help..
Of course generals is there but not a cracked version of 1.8. I wonder if an original release of Generals patched to 1.8 would contain Safedisc 4.60 too...? If anyone has generals installed and has patched it too 1.8 please tell me how it is. ONLY applies if you DO NOT have generals from First Decade pack.

And about gamefix. Some files are downloadable and some aren't. Like with Yuri's revenge. German NoCD is downloadable but english 1.001 is not.

I am also thinking if something like this would be legal:
If I fail to obtain original .exe's from earlier versions or actual cracked .exe files would it be legal to borrow previously released sets of C&C from friends, install those, crack them with generic patchers avaible on the net, uninstall them (but save the cracked files), install The First Decade, replace those .exe files with the ones made from borrowed version...?

It could be right? Because I own the newest boxset and I am not using any actual gamecontent from the ones I would borrow?

Just a little curious as that could be a solution too. Because earlier releases of Tiberian sun and the like are Safedisc 2 protected so Safedisc Cleaner would prolly work and there are generic patchers avaible for the earlier releases (before launcher .exe's was update to Safedisc 4.60).

[Joe Forster/STA]

Ehm, a stupid question (as I don't have this collection, not interested in strategy games): are all these games on one or two DVD's? If so, the main executables had their copy protection changed so that they all check for the same signatures on the same DVD, rather than their own signatures on their own respective CD's. Will then cracks for the original releases substitute them properly?

[doomerdgr8]

Originally Posted by Kanalradde

The server @ 66.199.231.140:1080 seems to be down.

This link always work: http://go.to/gamefix

[Joe Forster/STA]

Quote from the site:

"N E W F I L E S
15 February 2006

We have been experiencing server problems
for the past month
This problem has been fixed and we are online again!"

Yeah, yeah, it always works, right...?

[kosmiq]

Well gamefix RA2 Yuris Revenge cracks are still not downloadable (atleast 1.001).

About the game menu and its loader. I think I have discovered how it works with the cd-checks on that one. It seems as if the menu links to a file named "gamemd.exe" for RA2 and that one makes a CD check. However it is circumvented if the game is launched directly from the .exe file instead from the menu. As for Yuri's revenge that is ofcourse as RA2 launches without crack for me.

Problem with gamemd.exe is that it is Safedisc 4.60 protected also so I can do nothing to crack it. As there are no public Safedisc 4.60 unwrappers avaible there is nothing I can do with that one (does such an tool even exist yet? I have my doubts). However maybe if patching is done to the game.exe's themselves the games might be launchable in one way or another (making your own icons for it or if someone has enough knowledge to edit the First Decade menu to launch other files upon clicking).

More than that the purpose of what I am doing is to get the games running without the need to use the DVD. If that will be done with or without the menu itself is to be found out.

Question about Tiberian Sun when I am at it. Does anyone knows which files are affected by running the generic patcher that is out in the public? The file is named "TibSun203Crk.exe" and it is about 60kb's big. I have gotten an original game.exe file from a helpful person but it seems as some more file is still affecting the unwrapper. However the ICD file itself does not seem to be updated. I am suspecting Sun.exe but ProtectionID comes up with nothing on a scan.

[DABhand]

EDIT: ill try again :P

[cptpooface]

I tried finding cracks at megagames for red alert and red alert 2 but couldn't find them. I had been looking under "C" because I thought they would call it command and conquer: red alert. But I later found cracks and trainers for both games under "R" they are just called red alert, not command and conquer: red alert. Maybe you have to look up the name of the game without a command and conquer prefix eg. Yuris revenge, or Tiberium sun. I'm not sure if they have all the cracks or not but I hope that helps.

[kosmiq]

Originally Posted by cptpooface

I tried finding cracks at megagames for red alert and red alert 2 but couldn't find them. I had been looking under "C" because I thought they would call it command and conquer: red alert. But I later found cracks and trainers for both games under "R" they are just called red alert, not command and conquer: red alert. Maybe you have to look up the name of the game without a command and conquer prefix eg. Yuris revenge, or Tiberium sun. I'm not sure if they have all the cracks or not but I hope that helps.

Didn't think if that actually
Gotta take a look then, thanks for the tip...