Sorry to bother you experts, but WHAT IS A CRACK???

[Fkesoccer]

Hello, sorry to bother you ppl,but i'm a "newbie" and i have nooo idea what a crack is. Can anyone please clear this up for me?

[Fkesoccer]

BTW, i live in the USA.

[gh0sth@cker]

A crack is usually made to get round some sort of copy protection. When talking about cracks for games, the crack is normally an unprotected version of the original exe (one with the copy protection stripped from it). As it has the protection stripped from it, it doesn't check to see if the cd is 'real' and so you can play an 'imperfect' copy of a game.

[RincewindTheWiz]

I should probably add to gh0sth@cker's comments, that we're talking about BACKUPs here, for personal use.

If you want to avoid having your original game cd getting eaten by the dog or a passing dinosaur , you'll need to make a backup and play using that backup while the original is somewhere in a dog-and-dinosaur-proof safe. Most game compagnies these days use all kinds of copy protections to prevent us from doing this, hence the existence of this forum.

There are two kinds of cracks : no-cd patches, which allow you to play the game without any cd at all in your cdrom drive, and fixed executables, which allow you to use a backup cd, which must be present in the cdrom drive for the game to work.

There's a third alternative which doesn't need cracks and that's to make an exact copy of the original cd. Mind that this doesn't always works, especially with safedisk 2.51 and higher.

[meatmallet]

and there I was thinking it was something I sit on

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hi soccer, don't believe them! Crack is a drug and the police will get you if you own it!

Joe

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[Fkesoccer]

Thanks a lot for your help!