C&C: The first Decade crack search

[BarryB]

Well, it was a late night and I fooked things up a bit

Retested everything again and now 100% sure of the cracks which worked!

Tiberian Sun/Firestorm - GAME.EXE from Patch v2.03 and the NoCD patcher from the 'other' site!

Yuris Revenge - v1.0 cracked YURI.EXE (Deviance) from 'other' site renamed to RA2MD.EXE + Myth v1.001 cracked GAMEMD.EXE.

C&C Generals - v1.0 cracked GENERALS.EXE (Deviance) from GameCopyWorld.

Zero Hour - v1.04 cracked GENERALS.EXE and GAME.DAT (Iguana/Megatec) from GameCopyWorld.

All games loaded without the DVD, but not sure about any gameplay issues that may arise. Anyone know what happened with Generals/Zero Hour when a bad crack was detected? I recall something about exploding units or something but nothing else?

[noscript]

can you post all cracked files on rapidshare.de or something like this?

[m4gicfour]

Thanks noscript, that helped for C&C95, RA95 works like a charm now. Heh, I just remembered that when I was bored a few weeks ago I wrote a program to capture commandline arguments, write them to file, and launch another app based on an INI, with the commandline args. If I had used that, I could have figured that out myself.

[BarryB]

No problem, here ya go:

http://rapidshare.de/files/13818375/CnCFD-NoDVD.rar.html

I'm wondering if the Generals v1.8 GAME.DAT needs cracking, seeing as Yuri and Zero Hour had their respective GAMEMD.EXE and GAME.DAT files cracked! The strange thing is, Generals will run with just a cracked GENERALS.EXE whereas Yuri and Zero Hour will not as they ask for the CD until you replace GAMEMD.EXE and GAME.DAT with cracked ones!

[AndyMutz]

Originally Posted by BarryB

Anyone know what happened with Generals/Zero Hour when a bad crack was detected? I recall something about exploding units or something but nothing else?

i don't know about single player but in multi player two things could happen:
- after a few seconds of playing, all your buildings exploded and you lost
- you could finish the map and destroy all opponents, but in the end, you always got the "you were defeated" message

i had this once, but not because of a bad crack, but because my installation was somehow faulty (a reinstall fixed that problem)

i'm waiting for now, till i find TFD for less than 30 euro, because i already own some of the C&C games from that package

-andy-

[OliverMaltby]

Originally Posted by BarryB

No problem, here ya go:

http://rapidshare.de/files/13818375/CnCFD-NoDVD.rar.html

I'm wondering if the Generals v1.8 GAME.DAT needs cracking, seeing as Yuri and Zero Hour had their respective GAMEMD.EXE and GAME.DAT files cracked! The strange thing is, Generals will run with just a cracked GENERALS.EXE whereas Yuri and Zero Hour will not as they ask for the CD until you replace GAMEMD.EXE and GAME.DAT with cracked ones!

Thanks for the files BarryB!

[Joe Forster/STA]

Guys, if you're not sure if the cracks are proper (for these new releases), I would suggest making them available at GCW with a "BETA PACKAGE" warning and have problems reported to a single thread - perhaps, this one; perhaps, converted to a sticky?

[BarryB]

I'll up them to GCW.

There is a note in the text file I packaged with the cracks about them not being extensively playtested in Single Player and NO testing at all for Multiplayer, so that should cover any problems

But feedback is definitely welcome on whether they work or not.

[kosmiq]

Will see if I can get some updated cracks that fits for the actual versions of the game in the TFD pack.

About the bad crack thingie, afaik it happens in Red Alert 2 that the units exlpode after 30secs of playing.

I will also see if I can find that 1.001 cracked Yuri.exe, I know I still have it around here somewhere.

I am also about to start play the games SP from start to beginning (C&C and onwards). I will not be able to play through RA2+Yuri though as something is seriously wrong with them for me.
RA2 starts but the game stops everytime it needs to load a sound. Lets say I create a standard G.I. in the first mission as allies. Well everytime one gets 'built' the game stops, loads the sound (takes 1-3secs) and then says 'unit finished' or whatever it says. Totally breaks the fun for me. Yuri's revenge fails to start. It always hangs up at the loading screen when started
Happens after reinstall, original DVD used, cracks applied and so on.
All other games works fine though.

Still gotta check about Generals 1.8 though and see if the originally released Generals gets updated to safedisc 4.60 or not after that patch. If not we might be able to use some public unwrapper there..

Edit: GJ on the crack pack atleast, a very good start.

[BarryB]

kosmiq, not sure if you can get any updated cracks (bar for Generals v1.8)! As AFAIK only the GAME.DAT file is updated in Generals/Zero Hour and GAMEMD file for Yuri, none of them update the actual EXE you run the games with!

I downloaded and extracted the RTP file for latest patches for Generals v1.8 and Zero hour 1.04 and none of them had references to GENERALS.EXE in the RTP, same for Yuri 1.001 no reference to Yuri.exe. So that's why I used the original v1.0 cracks as only the GAME.DAT/GAMEMD.DAT files are updated and needed cracking in the patches. I think I gathered all the 'proper' cracks for the games and they just need playtesting

Not had any slowdowns in RA2, loaded the first Allied mission and got Tanya to Fort Bradley, built a barracks and trained 5 G.I's with no sound problem! You must have something else in your rig causing that problem?

[kosmiq]

Oh ok, didn't knew about the .exe itself not being updated!

Yeah the RA2 issue gotta be something. Not sure what tbh as all other games works just fine. Heck I run BF2 at 1600x1200 with highest settings and 2xAA.

[noscript]

short note: Disable Antivir while playing Generals. Otherwise you will have a heavy load in the beginning.

[OliverMaltby]

BarryB, I've replaced the original .exe's with the no-cd ones in your "bundle". So far they seem to work, I've tested each game and they work perfectly fine. If there "is" a problem then its not in any of the early levels of each respective game.

Thanks again!

[BarryB]

Thanks for the report Oli, hope they stay working The more people play deeper into the games the better.

[kosmiq]

I can atleast report that C&C works fine, even though it needs no crack it works... :P

Just found out a rather dissapointing thing in the former westwood forums...
http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread....D=46487#400512
That is how EA "fixed" XP support for the games...


And I am sad to report that in RA1 the movies does not play as supposed. When playing as Soviet it is the wrong movies
Found a fix for that though, not as good as you would want it to be but atleast it works.
http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread....5qTCmb3owAAKDw

About the "lag" issues I have in RA2, it is a problem that more people have and in case anyone else has it too it can be read about here:
http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread....art=0&tstart=0