Star Wars: Empire at War - Crack for V1.5?

[atlana]

TippeX

thx for the quick reply,

yes i do own the games for real, but i'm a so called "INFOSEC Consultant", and there's some stuff on my box that my clients consider PRIVATE, that i've for backup purposes (after all my box has almost 4 TB's in total HDD space) and before i send the report off to SECUROM, i'd like to knows whats inside it.

w. #2 i asked, if a "separate SecuROM v7 installation package" exist, one that does NOT require to install a/the game that came with it, one that "brutally overwrites/sets straight" what could be messed-up in the registry/services/devices.

something like the official STARFORCE-remover and/or something that does it the other way by "enforcing a clean re-installation" of the dreaded protection-scheme.

Q: is it legit when i OWN a game (w. disc and evreything) to use a 3rd-party patch to circumvent the protectionscheme (since it fucks up so much apparently, according to the internet).

cheers
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[TippeX]

hmm really depends on the eula... (using 3rd party soft etc)

the dialog from the launch config states that its like msinfo32, so well i guess that holds your answer...

[atlana]

well I had a big forth-n-back "support battle" going on w. securom themselves - even to the point they sent me a SWEAW.EXE that was almost a meg smaller than the retail-SWEAW.EXE (i wondre what they strippedand you would NOT believe it! Microsoft released a patch that fortified the KERNEL32.DLL against some possible remote-control exploits, and locked-out/booted out securom's protection- scheme!!!

it's the security-patch Windows update KB917422 - IF you uninstall it, the securom v7 affected games like SW EMPIRES AT WAR and the scifi-rts SWORD OF THE STARS will work again - i dont know which else games are affected, but i can think of a bigger number than just these two.

spread the word. securom fracked it up - again!

cheers
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[BarryB]

Is that EXE they sent you still Securom protected? Would be nice if it wasn't

I had the same problem with the Knights of Honor v1.03 crack, it won't work with KB917422 installed due to the imports being badly rebuilt, probably under the original kernel32 from SP2! Removing that update lets it run again!

[atlana]

well you can check for yourself, and DL it directly from here
http://www.securom.com/support/custo...t129/sweaw.zip
(if they killed the link already let me know, and we'll find another way)
for all you patchers out there have it at it - maybe you guys find something more out by comparing those execs directly (am not a coder).

it's about 1200KBytes less than the retail-exec...i do NOT think that it's being entirely removed, maybe they just got rid of the encryption-wrapper of the exec? But am not a pro when it comes to game-exec's patchings.

enjoy the fun

cheers

[TippeX]

pid reports (couldn't you have done this yourself?)

Scanning -> G:\SWEAW.exe
File Type : Exe, Size : 11587584 (0B0D000h) Bytes
-> Suspicious MZ Header..
[!] SecuROM Detected - Version 7.24.0006
[!] Possible CD/DVD-Key or Serial Check -> cdkey
- Scan Took : 1.172 Seconds

thus, its still protected.. size vs. original size doesnt really matter, considering compression etc is used...

so i doubt anything is removed.. they probably just gave you a new wrapped exe with a better version.. check the version number of your original and see...

[thugnme]

LOL that .exe they sent u was the original .exe version 1.0, so I dont see what diffrence it made after you updated it to version 1.5...