Cracked Neverwinter Nights Servers

[Dorfl]

So, where can I find any of these?

[crakhead]

You don't need a "cracked" server. You need to do two things to get multiplayer working w/o a valid cd key.

1) Prevent nwserver.exe from contacting nwmaster.bioware.com:5121 to check client cd keys as they log in.
2) Prevent nwmain.exe from contacting nwmaster.bioware.com:5121 so that you aren't rejected immediately for having an invalid cd key when you attempt to go into multiplayer.

You have a variety of methods at your disposal to accomplish this.

1) Modify your hosts file (c:\windows\hosts for Windows 95/98/ME, c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts or c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts for 2000/XP) and add an entry "127.0.0.1 nwmaster.bioware.com" sans quotes.

2) Use a personal firewall (ie: the one from www.kerio.com is free) and block any outgoing UDP traffic to 66.244.193.142 (which is what nwmaster.bioware.com currently resolves to). The drawback of this is if they change the DNS entry for nwmaster.bioware.com you have to edit your rule to compensate.

3) Use a hex editor on nwmain.exe and nwserver.exe and search/replace "nwmaster.bioware.com" with "localhost ". I haven't tried this and obviously patching your exe will make subsequent patches fail unless you keep a backup copy.


I prefer method #1. Have fun.