C&C: The first Decade crack search

[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?

[BarryB]

I'll up them to GCW.

There is a note in the text file I packaged with the cracks about them not being extensively playtested in Single Player and NO testing at all for Multiplayer, so that should cover any problems

But feedback is definitely welcome on whether they work or not.

[kosmiq]

Will see if I can get some updated cracks that fits for the actual versions of the game in the TFD pack.

About the bad crack thingie, afaik it happens in Red Alert 2 that the units exlpode after 30secs of playing.

I will also see if I can find that 1.001 cracked Yuri.exe, I know I still have it around here somewhere.

I am also about to start play the games SP from start to beginning (C&C and onwards). I will not be able to play through RA2+Yuri though as something is seriously wrong with them for me.
RA2 starts but the game stops everytime it needs to load a sound. Lets say I create a standard G.I. in the first mission as allies. Well everytime one gets 'built' the game stops, loads the sound (takes 1-3secs) and then says 'unit finished' or whatever it says. Totally breaks the fun for me. Yuri's revenge fails to start. It always hangs up at the loading screen when started
Happens after reinstall, original DVD used, cracks applied and so on.
All other games works fine though.

Still gotta check about Generals 1.8 though and see if the originally released Generals gets updated to safedisc 4.60 or not after that patch. If not we might be able to use some public unwrapper there..

Edit: GJ on the crack pack atleast, a very good start.

[BarryB]

kosmiq, not sure if you can get any updated cracks (bar for Generals v1.8)! As AFAIK only the GAME.DAT file is updated in Generals/Zero Hour and GAMEMD file for Yuri, none of them update the actual EXE you run the games with!

I downloaded and extracted the RTP file for latest patches for Generals v1.8 and Zero hour 1.04 and none of them had references to GENERALS.EXE in the RTP, same for Yuri 1.001 no reference to Yuri.exe. So that's why I used the original v1.0 cracks as only the GAME.DAT/GAMEMD.DAT files are updated and needed cracking in the patches. I think I gathered all the 'proper' cracks for the games and they just need playtesting

Not had any slowdowns in RA2, loaded the first Allied mission and got Tanya to Fort Bradley, built a barracks and trained 5 G.I's with no sound problem! You must have something else in your rig causing that problem?