C&C: The first Decade crack search

[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?

[noscript]

can you post all cracked files on rapidshare.de or something like this?

[m4gicfour]

Thanks noscript, that helped for C&C95, RA95 works like a charm now. Heh, I just remembered that when I was bored a few weeks ago I wrote a program to capture commandline arguments, write them to file, and launch another app based on an INI, with the commandline args. If I had used that, I could have figured that out myself.

[BarryB]

No problem, here ya go:

http://rapidshare.de/files/13818375/CnCFD-NoDVD.rar.html

I'm wondering if the Generals v1.8 GAME.DAT needs cracking, seeing as Yuri and Zero Hour had their respective GAMEMD.EXE and GAME.DAT files cracked! The strange thing is, Generals will run with just a cracked GENERALS.EXE whereas Yuri and Zero Hour will not as they ask for the CD until you replace GAMEMD.EXE and GAME.DAT with cracked ones!

[OliverMaltby]

Originally Posted by BarryB

No problem, here ya go:

http://rapidshare.de/files/13818375/CnCFD-NoDVD.rar.html

I'm wondering if the Generals v1.8 GAME.DAT needs cracking, seeing as Yuri and Zero Hour had their respective GAMEMD.EXE and GAME.DAT files cracked! The strange thing is, Generals will run with just a cracked GENERALS.EXE whereas Yuri and Zero Hour will not as they ask for the CD until you replace GAMEMD.EXE and GAME.DAT with cracked ones!

Thanks for the files BarryB!

[Joe Forster/STA]

Guys, if you're not sure if the cracks are proper (for these new releases), I would suggest making them available at GCW with a "BETA PACKAGE" warning and have problems reported to a single thread - perhaps, this one; perhaps, converted to a sticky?

[AndyMutz]

Originally Posted by BarryB

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?

i don't know about single player but in multi player two things could happen:
- after a few seconds of playing, all your buildings exploded and you lost
- you could finish the map and destroy all opponents, but in the end, you always got the "you were defeated" message

i had this once, but not because of a bad crack, but because my installation was somehow faulty (a reinstall fixed that problem)

i'm waiting for now, till i find TFD for less than 30 euro, because i already own some of the C&C games from that package

-andy-