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Safedisc 4 cracked!!!!

nba live 2006
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Yes, I saw this some time ago. SDAPI has been updated to fix the whole in that game. Pretty much, there was only one SDAPI call esi routine in the entire game, and all the calls went directly to it. If you were really bored, I think you could code a hooker/table builder for it, maybe you could even force the custom args, I dont remember. However, this guy coded an emulator. The macrovision ppl awarded him by updating the protection, and now everything is back to Step 1. So, no, SDAPI has not yet been fully cracked.(at least the newest version). This is however the most advanced SDAPI crack up to date.

EDIT, my bad, 2 SDAPI CALL ESI's in the entire exe :P
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Old 09-01-2006, 21:26
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wtf did that mean?


does madden 2006 have the same protection as live 2006?
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CALL ESI its a bit of ASM.

So they used ESI register to point to the protection check?


They must have rewritten the protection check to always force a good result.

I cant see them bypassing it.


Still I never thought they would have used ESI to do it.
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Er.... what's so special about NBA Live 06?
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Seems like this thread is a publicity stunt

"OMG Safedisc has been cracked because NBA 2006 has been cracked!"

Why not create another thread:
"SecuROM newest cracked!!!"
and add links to the crack of a game protected with SecuROM (say, Quake 4 or FEAR)

or another:
"Starforce cracked!!!"
and add links to the crack of a game protected with Starforce (say, Gangland or UFO: Aftershock)

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SecuROM v7 has been beaten in its current version atleast. Simply do some dupechecking and you will see that reloaded has cracked a lot of SecuROM v7 games lately. Well AFAIK it is not fully rebuilt .exe's as they used some kind of API hole on the protection to get pass it.

My bet is that the next version of SecuROM v7 will have that hole fixed.
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CALL ESI its a bit of ASM.

So they used ESI register to point to the protection check?


They must have rewritten the protection check to always force a good result.

I cant see them bypassing it.


Still I never thought they would have used ESI to do it.
SDAPI is a library linked into the exe, and then destroyed. The library is then emulated in the protection DLL. The protection DLL is called via CALL ESI. No protection DLL=No library=crash. The library itself takes some encrypted game values and returns them decrypted. Sometimes, the library is only called to check if it is there. Either way, this guy emulated the library. Macrovision updated the library, so now in order to crack it you have to rewrite your entire emulator. Its a very tiring cat and mouse game IMO. Now, Macrovision is just waiting for someone to code an emulator for their new SDAPI, and I bet they will just update it again.
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Yes, I saw this some time ago. SDAPI has been updated to fix the whole in that game. Pretty much, there was only one SDAPI call esi routine in the entire game, and all the calls went directly to it. If you were really bored, I think you could code a hooker/table builder for it, maybe you could even force the custom args, I dont remember. However, this guy coded an emulator. The macrovision ppl awarded him by updating the protection, and now everything is back to Step 1. So, no, SDAPI has not yet been fully cracked.(at least the newest version). This is however the most advanced SDAPI crack up to date.

EDIT, my bad, 2 SDAPI CALL ESI's in the entire exe :P
To be honest I'm fucking glad I'm no cracker...
Worst thing is, I understand what you say, but I dont have any ability to do what you said. I'm just so far, i know where to find text references in Olly...
Anyways, after about 2 weeks of reading tutorials I fully gave it up...doesnt seem like my dream hobby...
Of course i know what ESI is, but i dont really know why DABHand said he didn't expect them using ESI for it ? Whats so special with ESI ?
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wtf did that mean?


does madden 2006 have the same protection as live 2006?
Sorry for not answering Warrdog. Didnt see the reply.

Yes, NBA 2006 and other newer SDAPI games have a slight and yet significant difference in them.
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