Age of Wonders Shadow Magic 1.3 No CD patch

[WereW0lve]

Have anyone seen the NO-CD version of this patch online? Some people are already using it.

Or maybe someone can give me a link to one very good site with instructions for fixing the exe file for this game with hex editor, I've seen it some time ago, but can't seem to find it now.

Thanks

i hope the german version would also be runnable with a nocd...
can you PM the Hex-Editor-link, if you`ll find it, WereW0lve ??
I heard they kicked the copy-protection in 1.3 so it must be only remove the cd-check...
thx
v.

[KAMiKAZE]

Originally posted by voose
so it must be only remove the cd-check...

do you have any idea how to remove the cd-check??
I don't think that a hex-editor will do the work!
here if you want to read tutorials(the proggys that you'll need should be listed above in every tutorial)
links to tutorials

[WereW0lve]

Thanks a lot, last time I used one of those tutorials and it worked :-)

Of course a "ready" patch would be better, but now I'll have to try to make my own

I am quite inexperienced in this, but it should be not very hard with the right tools and good advice.

[KAMiKAZE]

yeah let me know if you need some tips!

[zev]

can anyone confirm that they removed the protection on the latest patch?

when applying v1.3 does the game run by just mounting the image with daemontools and turning on securom emulation probably?

let us know, please


TIA, Zev

[KAMiKAZE]

nahh I don't think that securom was removed!
protection ID says: SecuRom Detected - Version 5.02.02
hmm, but iam not sure if its right, programs like safedisk analyser find a safedisk version in a file, which is already fixed! oh ok I tried it with protection ID its the same thing.... so lets think:
the exe is 8.55Mb, not normal for a securom protected exe or?

soo the file is much to disassemble, but i have time!

KAMiKAZE

[zev]

if you have time please crack v1.18 afrika korps. the .exe is about 8mb too )) would be nice.

[KAMiKAZE]

yeah, but iam not able to remove those commercial protections like safedisk and securom. at the moment iam not sure if age of wonders 1.3 is protected...

[zev]

sheeeesh... (( no souldrinker guy in this forum? i think they released the german version and cracked it

[WereW0lve]

1.3 is protected, but I can't find the protection in the file :-( Looks like it's not so easy, but I'll keep trying, maybe on weekend

[Johin]

Why care, it works with an image mounted on daemon tools. Unless you have a small harddrive, it should be no problem.

[WereW0lve]

For me it's a problem cause I lost my CD somewhere in my room and it's really really hard to find it in heaps of other things :-)

But it's good that it works, then when I find the CD I'll be able to copy it. Still a crack is more convenient and less space-consuming.

[Johin]

And in the worst case, there may be Securom trigger functions...

[Shingro]

Unless I'm wrong, just mounting the image on Daemon tools *doesn't* work with 1.3, same "please insert correct CD" message as 1.2 and 1.0 and such.

A crack for 1.3 would be the best thing, and long overdue for such a great game.

Edit: oh yeah, if anyone gets a crack made, give me an e-mail (with the crack perferably =)

Shingro********com

Edit 2: Terribly sorry, I apologize