Pre-Cracked

[Joe Forster/STA]

I still don't understand what the deal is with struggling to reformat the game into an installable package. Install the game, apply the latest official update, apply the no-CD patch for it, make sure that the game runs from any directory (or hack it to make it do so), export the necessary registry entries into a file and RAR it up. When you wanna play, unRAR the package, import the registry file, run the configuration program, if any, and there you go playing...

[FireSokar]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

I still don't understand what the deal is with struggling to reformat the game into an installable package. Install the game, apply the latest official update, apply the no-CD patch for it, make sure that the game runs from any directory (or hack it to make it do so), export the necessary registry entries into a file and RAR it up. When you wanna play, unRAR the package, import the registry file, run the configuration program, if any, and there you go playing...

While I have done that for one game kill.switch I do not like doing it at all. I personally want to keep it as close to Retail looking as possible, as well as still getting all the work done for me. In a way it makes it more complicated to do it that way. CD-Key, for some games can only be set on install, some games require to create a profile during install, not to mention some shared components some games install / files you dont know about, sure you can monitor where they are installed to but i personally prefer factory installer, but with my own installer for crack / patch working in the background. It's just a option I offered up if its not that well liked its no big deal. I did gain one thing from the forum tho inspiration to make it a dynamically installed crack instead of factory install directory, ive got the scripts written up to return the value for one game so far just need to get it to send a call to a vbs and return that value back to the batch.