Protection Scanners

[DownwardSpyral]

What is everyones best/favorite copy protection scanner? I currently use YAPS and I'm wondering if there is anything better I should be using.

Please Note: Many Scanners are frontends to CloneCD. I don't use CloneCD and never will again, It crashes my PC and refuses to burn discs.

[gh0sth@cker]

Clony XXL - the latest version is not a frontend to Clone CD. It's just a copy protection identifier with suggested settings.
I believe there's also a version of Clony XXL specially for Gamejack - so it passes the settings to Gamejack.

[cdkiller]

i think my Scanner is the best
you just have to select the protected exe, dll or dat file
and you get the protection information with some cracking hints and other stuff.

[gh0sth@cker]

Yea there's that too! And it's always being updated.

[DownwardSpyral]

Originally posted by cdkiller
i think my Scanner is the best
you just have to select the protected exe, dll or dat file
and you get the protection information with some cracking hints and other stuff.

But how do you know which ExE/DLL,DAT file is protected? If any?

And the newest version of Clony doesn't offer any copy protection information or cracking. It simply scans the disc and tells you that the protection is

[cdkiller]

in most cases the game executable is protected.
like in C&C Reneage it´s Game.exe wich is safedisc protected.

[ByteMare]

Otherwise, scan all exe/dll/dat files in the game install dir

[DownwardSpyral]

Originally posted by cdkiller
in most cases the game executable is protected.
like in C&C Reneage it´s Game.exe wich is safedisc protected.

Obviously. but sometimes the EXE is compressed and not on the CD. I take it works just as well if I scan the EXE on my harddrive?

[gh0sth@cker]

Yes it's exactly the same.

[DownwardSpyral]

And what is this Win32DASM it keeps talking about???

The program doesn't seem to detect any copy protection on my discs. ClonyXXL and YaPS can find Safedisc and Securom, but this thing just tells me it has "Possible CD-Checks"

[ByteMare]

win32dasm is a hex editor which allows you to edit files i.e for removing CD-checks and similar

[DownwardSpyral]

How easy is it to remove CD checks or other Copy Protection?

Or is it just easier to grab a cracked exe off GCW?

[gh0sth@cker]

cdkiller has a few tutorials on his website - most are German, although there are a few English ones. They are very useful for learning how to remove cd-checks.
And yes, it can be easier to download one from GCW

[Aranthi]

cdkiller
i was trying to dl some files off your site the MASM v7.0 and TASM 5.0 and the Win32Api reference files and i was sent to a 404 site not foudn could you send me a link for them else where plz thanks

[cdkiller]

i fixed broken Tasm Compiler download.
but all other asm tutorials are availabe !
(don´t use a download manager)

added link to MASM Download page.