Making No-CD exe's

[Madnezz]

Wuz up? I have been making backups og my game cds for some time now <years>. With out really knowing how to do it <lucky I guess>. I got some good tips aty the start from gcw. I have been using a combination of clone CD 4.2.0.2 and clonyxxl to burn all my CD's. About 1 year ago they stopped burning perfectly and I have been getting the no-cd fixed exe's for my games. At first I thought It was because a new form of copy protection was invented and now the cd-check was located in the exe installed by the CD IE: my copy protection progies werent working correctly. but Now I'm not sure if its that or my burner just cant read/write RAW DAO & Sub-Channel Data. I have no clue. How do I check? Also, this post is mainly about making a no-cd exe. I have recently DLed ProtectionID by CDkiller hearing that it was better than clonyxxl. I am trying the game Vietcong. when I run the protectionID on the exe I get a code 4.84.69.0078 ?? wtf is this? When I run it on the game.dll file it says "Protected with CDchecks, I found this string: -Please Insert- , Load the exe into Win32Dasm and do a search on that string and patch the jump before it." Now.... I get the Idea of a "jump" but what is the actual comand? Win32Dasm<english> I cant find it anywhere?
Does anyone have a link to any FAQ's about making your own no-cd's that is updated? Thx for reading my bull**** and thanx for any response. - Madnezz "Arenas Of Death"

[Junix]

http://www.fileforums.com/showthread...light=vietcong

[GLH]

To find W32DASM follow this link: http://crackpltools.prv.pl/ and you will find also some other tools.

[cdkiller]

i´ve written some newbie cracking tutorials.
get it on my website. they are good to start cracking...
(than you know aboput Jumps and other stuff...)
begin with Sniper it,s very basic and covers all wich a newbie must know. no matter if you don´t have the game,
the rar file contains the launcher.exe to crack.

and don´t start with Vietcong, i can´t crack this newer
SecuROM 4.84 so i guess you also can´t do it

start with simple cd-checks and not with safedisc / securom.

[Madnezz]

Thanx 4 all the info! I should have edited my post last night. I read post after post, then came up with cdkillers site and it help tremendously. danke! Also found W32DASM but couldnt ever acomplish anything... I see why now thx to Cdk's post.

B.T.W. - Is there a writer out there that can be combined with software to burn the games flawlessly- IE without the need to crack the exe? I have seen diferent answers all around.

B.T.W.2 - For being on a comperter most of my life and being 24 years old I imagian everytime I learn something new I am a Newbie in that department.... Its a repetative process isnt it?
we are all n00b's forever - |Madnezz| A.O.D.