C&C: The first Decade crack search

[kosmiq]

Hi all!

I am currently investigating if old cracks will work with the modifed versions of the games in TFD pack.

Problem is GCW currently hosts very little cracks for C&C games. So this is a cry for help.

If you happen to have cracks for the following games please PM me:
Tiberian Sun: 2.03
Yuri's Revenge: 1.001
Generals: 1.8

the progress of my testing and some other information I have gathered can be found in this thread: http://www.fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=75394

Note:
I know there's a patcher for Tiberian Sun that does some cracking on the existing files. It is a small file (50kb or something like that). That one is however NOT working on this version of Tiberian Sun because the .exe file has been updated to Safedisc 4.60. However I am suspecting that replacing it with an old .exe file that the patcher works on will let the game start without the disc inserted.

So if anyone has the files to those games cracked (.exe's, dll's, whatever needs protection removal on them) I would be very happy if you could PM me so we can work something out.

Note2: Yes I own the package but using that DVD is PiA. Also all games does not work from image for me (unless I use SD4Hide wich I hate to use).

[Luciel]

Have you searched megagames? i remember getting my tib sun crack from there a while back (not sure what version it was tho).

[m4gicfour]

Hey, I'm kind of a noob to this sort of thing and I was wondering... Does anyone have/know of/can make a mini-image for C&C TFD? I've tried making one myself but I don't think alcohol likes my DVD drive :S

I'd just use the DVD - even though it is a major PiA, but since I run FEAR quite often (aot, but FEAR is important since IDE devices need to be hidden b/c SR7) with daemon-tools, to be able to use the DVD I'd have to continually re-enable my PATA controller from device manager to use the drive anytime I want to play Tiberian sun / Yuri's / Generals / Generals ZH, along with disk swapping, and then disable it again after. MUCH bigger PiA.

Some may say, why not use a no-cd patch.... In my experience they tend to cause havok, especially in online games, and since these are reworked versions IDK if they would work at all. As a side note, isn't it odd how EA has CD-Checks on some of the games, but not the others... I.E. DVD-check on Yuri, but not RA2... Tiberium, not Renegade. Generals is common sense since EA actually wrote that one.

[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!

[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?

[m4gicfour]

They're all on one DVD, and yes they have updated copy protection to check for the DVD instead of their respective CD's. I.E. you can't play Generals from a First Decade install with a standalone Generals disk. I imagine the version of safedisc was upped too.

[kosmiq]

as m4gicfour said it has been changed.

However all C&C games are not really looking for any files at all on the dvd becuase all files to all games are installed if full install is chosen. So movie files that previously was on CD is now installed directly to HDD. And that was a step needed before to crack the games properly.

The .exe files now have safedisc 4.60 instead of safedisc v2.

However game content are the same. So the only thing that is not working is mini-images, but I tested to test atleast.

I think that replacing the .exe's with older ones should be fine because of the contents itself has not been replaced and the cracked .exe's looks for movies etc in the dir so that should not be a problem.

But that is excactly why I am testing this out.

[DABhand]

The game selector menu checks the disks and passes a flag that the other games check for, so you just cant go into whatever game folder to run it from the game exe it will ask for the disk everytime.

So instead of individual cracks, the menu loader is the one to target.

[doomerdgr8]

Originally Posted by Kanalradde

The server @ 66.199.231.140:1080 seems to be down.

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