Installshield CRC Check

[heinohate]

Can anybody say me how to get rid of this ****ing CRC-Check?

[RincewindTheWiz]

hohum, this sounds a bit fishy. Explain yourself young man !

[heinohate]

Installshield checks the CRC of any file. And when I burn the Cracked EXE instead of the Original EXE on CD he says "CRC error: The file...." during installation.
And I want to know how to disable this option?

[RincewindTheWiz]

Maybe this is what you want ? It's a program to rebuild the installshield data files so you can insert for example a crack, but I don't have any experience with it.

[heinohate]

I know I6comp, but it will not solve the problem.

Following Problem:

I want to burn FIFA2002. But I don't want just to make a dir with the Crack, I want to replace the Original EXE with the Cracked, so that I don't have to copy the crack to the game dir after installation.

The Original EXE is not in a CAB File, its just in the main dir, but when I replace it the installation shows me the error.

[RincewindTheWiz]

Mmmmm..... I'm afraid you're stuck with it. I don't know any feasible way to do that except debugging and patching the executable and that won't happen unless YOU can do it. And with the next official patch your trouble was all for nothing. Just put the crack in a different subdir and copy it over after you install. I know this isn't very handy, but trust me what you want to do will take an extraordinary amount of work for something that probably is outdated in a few weeks anyway.

[[email protected]]

Had a look at it myself there now out of interest. It does throw up an error during installation complaning about filesize not matching the data in the cab file (but it gives you the option to Ignore which will continue with the installation)

I had a look in the cab files and extracted setup.cfg to have a look (what I'm looking for may be in some other file but I choose this one as a guess - ne ideas welcome).
Had a look at the cfg file and it said this

[Game]
Category=EA SPORTS
ProductName=FIFA 2002
LocalizedProductName=0
Executable=fifa2002.exe
ProductGuiID=6C5A8BA1-8114-11D5-0090-B800902724B3
Icon=fifa2002.ico
Region=en

Is the ID the filesize that the exe should be? I'll have another look at a few other files.


BTW - just thought - why don't u use bOOl's eye's Safedisk Cleaner to produce a fixed exe which has the same filesize - that might solve this.

[RincewindTheWiz]

Originally posted by [email protected]
Is the ID the filesize that the exe should be? I'll have another look at a few other files.

No, it's a Global Unique Identifier, it's used in Microsofts Common Object Model, has nothing to do with the check.

BTW - just thought - why don't u use bOOl's eye's Safedisk Cleaner to produce a fixed exe which has the same filesize - that should solve this.

I'm pretty convinced it's a checksum that's being used, but of course if it works, so much the better.

[GLH]

Heinohate is right: The FIFA2002.EXE isn't -real- in the CAB-File, but a record of it CRC is there.

You can solve this by putting the cracked EXE in the CAB-File AND overwrite the Original-One in the root Dir.

Use I6Comp as follows:
I6COMP R DATA1.CAB FIFA2002.EXE

The CAB-File will be bigger in size, but it works.

I don't know how to change only the CRC in the CAB without putting the file in...

[heinohate]

I tried to replace it, but it doesn't work. So I wanted to try to add it, but I doesn't know the exact syntax. (I have a problem to specify the File Group to add.)

[GLH]

I also don't know this file-group-stuff.
Thats the reason why I use the REPLACE Option.
I don't know why it doesn't work for you.

[shinok]

Originally Posted by heinohate

Installshield checks the CRC of any file. And when I burn the Cracked EXE instead of the Original EXE on CD he says "CRC error: The file...." during installation.
And I want to know how to disable this option?

Try Edit md5 checksum in DATA1.HDR (if there is such file), there are stored all crc also for files there are outside data1.cab and data2.cab archives (i dont know if those files are there, i dont own this game)

You can find usefull "InstallShield CAB File Viewer"
http://www.gamecopyworld.com/games/gcw_game_tools.shtml

1. open the data1.hdr in InstallShield CAB File Viewer
2. click icon "Display Components"
try to find crc (md5 signature) for the file you want replace
3. open data1.hdr in winhex editor Click on icon "Replace Hex Values" (ctrl+alt+H)
insert into fields:
"search for:" <-- insert original md5 signature (you found it with InstallShield CAB File Viewer)
"replace with:" <-- insert new md5 (you can create md5 in Total Commander, in MENU "File"->"Create CRC Cheacksums (SFV Format)..." then check "md5" option, or you can use QuickSFV tool

Copy edited Data1.hdr into cd or cd-image. Done