Pac-Man World 2 not working on Windows 7 - due to Starforce, any crack available?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Pac-Man World 2 never had a crack. And since a crack for Pac-Man World 3 is already out, there will probably never be.

[FahrenheitDegree]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

Pac-Man World 2 never had a crack. And since a crack for Pac-Man World 3 is already out, there will probably never be.

In this case, however, it is not that crack would only make it more comfortable to play the game (without the CD in drive), it would actually be totally essential to run it on newer OS because of Starforce's older versions' total incompatibility with them.

Any ideas whether DRM-free portals such as gog.com might offer Pac-Man World 2 and possibly other titles published by Hit Interactive in the future?
The publisher does not seem to exist any longer but the original franchise is property of Namco Bandai who have already added some of their (actually Atari's but it is now the same company) titles to their portfolio.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Well, from a cracker's point of view, there's not much reason for cracking something other than the mental challenge. I think if there was a "factory unprotected" version of this game then its executable, if also compatible with the original release, would've been uploaded to GCW years ago/right away.

This problem shows very well what a blatant lie DRM is: a euphemism covering the fact that publishers don't give a shit about their user's rights, only their own. (At least, civilized developers/publishers release a final, fully unprotected update of the game within X years or before/after they go bankrupt.)