Whats the difference about NO-CD and CRACK?

[AcesHigh]

Isnt it the same thing? Cuz "crack" threads are closed while "no-cd" threads are allowed to exist.

[gh0sth@cker]

A fixed exe is an exe which has had it's commercial copy protection removed (eg Safedisk, Securom). It may still have normal CD-Checks

A no-cd is as above but with all the cd-checks removed.

A crack is a generalisation of the two terms above. A crack can be a fixed exe or no-cd crack.

[AcesHigh]

why people with original games want NO-CDs so badly? I only see reason for no-cds for pirated games!

[BarryB]

why people with original games want NO-CDs so badly? I only see reason for no-cds for pirated games!

Not entirely correct!

Legitimate users of orginal CD's/DVD's use NoCD's/Cracks/Fixed EXE's for conveniance, so they can put their original CD/DVD back in its case and not keep having to get it out and keep putting the CD/DVD in the drive each time you want to play the game.

This may not be problem for you, keep putting the disc in each time you want to play, but for others it's a pain in the ***, so that's why people ask for them!

This also creates a 'double edged sword' scenario, as these NoCD's/cracks etc, as you state, can be used for pirated games. But I just point out there is a valid reason to use them.

[gh0sth@cker]

I, like many other people, have got many many games installed on my hard drives. As said above it's a pain to dig out the cds for each play.

In addition, constantly checking the cds slows the game down due to the access speeds much slower than your hard drive. This can cause the game to stop while the cd is spun up ---> not good.

Some copy protections will not work on some systems due to glitches. Some copy protections will not run because of finding certain software installed on the system. This is very unfair to the end user - in some cases, which I have experienced, you are unable to play your original game without a crack because of this.

[enb141]

Another reason why is because using too much your CD/DVD rom will reduce it's lifetime and sometimes you don't remember where's your game (my fu.. brother) always lends my games to his friends