C&C: The first Decade crack search

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Originally Posted by DABhand

Dont want to risk this?? Buy the game??


If you have the full game, why did you risk it then??


Someone is telling porky pies

First of all, I'm using Linux.
The second is , that it was not 100% my own computer,cuz my winchester failed to boot , and I asked my friend , if he could lend me one of his Hd. And I created my own backup image, because it is legal to make 1 prive backup copy for yourself. And i didn't want to scratch the disk. And thank god, that this programme uses safedisk, so it seems , that blindwrite could make the image for me.

[BarryB]

I managed to help a mate get his Full Install of C&C FD working with ALL the games running from the Launcher Menu without needing the DVD inserted!

Cracks used:

Tiberian Sun 2.03 EXE and crack patch from the other 'world' site!
Yuris Revenge: v1.0 NoCD/Fixed EXE from the other 'world' site again, just rename Yuri.exe to RA2MD.EXE
Generals: Deviance v1.0 from GameCopyWorld
Zero Hour: v1.04 from GameCopyWorld

I just replaced the existing files in the respective directory with the new cracks and everything worked with a FULL install and no DVD in the drive!

I've never played Zero Hour, so not sure if they've made it a standalone game as the v1.04 crack has both an EXE and GAME.DAT file and there was no GAME.DAT file in the Zero Hour directory! Copying the files from the crack, however, into the the Zero Hour directory worked!

But, not sure if there will be problems further into games like Generals/Zero Hour due to CD Checks, but if the Laucher menu in-line patches each game to bypass the CD Checks then they 'should' work!

Someone who's a C&C GURU needs to play these games with the cracks to see if the work correctly

[kosmiq]

Originally Posted by BarryB

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Cracks used:

Unwrapped Tiberian Sun 2.03 EXE and crack patch from the other 'world' site!
Yuris Revenge: v1.0 NoCD/Fixed EXE from the other 'world' site again, just rename Yuri.exe to RA2MD.EXE
Generals: Deviance v1.0 from GameCopyWorld
Zero Hour: v1.04 from GameCopyWorld

A few problems that most likely will occur here:
cracks for proper versions has only been used on Tiberian Sun and Zero Hour so I guess all patch content are not intact.

The Zero Hour thingie has already been checked (by me) and what remains to be tested is if it will run without the game.dat from the crack dir. I also added the game.dat into the Zero Hour dir and upon removal of it again the game will not launch so I think it has been changed to look for the generals game.dat. But the game works fine.

The other 'world' site as you so gently call it, I know which one it is, only has a generic patcher that didn't work for me with an game.exe from the old version of TS as it would complain about filesize mismatch. On the other hand I only had the game.exe avaible and it might check TS.exe too when applying the crack.

[BarryB]

I need to correct something!

Just looked at the Tiberian Sun patch v2.03 and it adds a Safedisc FREE GAME.EXE, so it didn't need unwrapping at all! I thought the EXE I found had been unwrapped so that patch from the 'other' site just removed the CD Checks and lets the game load! The filesize of the GAME.EXE has to be 3,457,296 bytes for the NoCD patcher to work!

I think the cracked Zero Hour v1.04 patch looks at the GENERALS.DAT file as well as the GENERALS.LCF file (which has a reference to GAME.DAT in it) so I think the GAME.DAT file is needed. They must have just merged the GENERALS.EXE and GAME.DAT file into the 7.34mb SD protected EXE, either way the game loads and plays but is it 100%?

[m4gicfour]

For those who care: DT4.03 and the maxi-image found on GCW works EXCEPT for C&C and Yuri. Here's the weird thing, though: C&C works from the launcher even when there is no image mounted (and no disk) but not directly from C&C95.exe (even with image mounted, not sure about disk) WTF? Does the launcher maybe pass some funky commandline arguments to C&C's exe? Is there any way I could find out what those would be if it did? Or maybe the launcher does some kind of anti-protection trick on C&C? I could see EA being lazy enough to do that rather than recode a major portion of a game they never made?

[noscript]

it does and there is away to find out

Here you got the commandlines:

C&C95.exe -cdcovert

RA95.exe -cd.

[BarryB]

Well, it was a late night and I fooked things up a bit

Retested everything again and now 100% sure of the cracks which worked!

Tiberian Sun/Firestorm - GAME.EXE from Patch v2.03 and the NoCD patcher from the 'other' site!

Yuris Revenge - v1.0 cracked YURI.EXE (Deviance) from 'other' site renamed to RA2MD.EXE + Myth v1.001 cracked GAMEMD.EXE.

C&C Generals - v1.0 cracked GENERALS.EXE (Deviance) from GameCopyWorld.

Zero Hour - v1.04 cracked GENERALS.EXE and GAME.DAT (Iguana/Megatec) from GameCopyWorld.

All games loaded without the DVD, but not sure about any gameplay issues that may arise. Anyone know what happened with Generals/Zero Hour when a bad crack was detected? I recall something about exploding units or something but nothing else?