Civilization3: Conquests no-cd crack for 1.12 patch?

P22 · #1 05-01-2004, 06:21

This patch has been around for a while.

Has anyone found a no-cd crack for it?

P.S.
I hope I can get it soon, since otherwise next patch is scheduled for 10 January, when no-cd crack for this version won't matter much anymore.

krondike · #2 05-01-2004, 08:33

there is no offical patch out yet. This is just a BETA patch, use the search button and you will found it out. And look what happen to the other topic thread that ask for it..

P22 · #3 05-01-2004, 11:10

Quote:

Originally posted by krondike
there is no offical patch out yet. This is just a BETA patch, use the search button and you will found it out. And look what happen to the other topic thread that ask for it..

But that's patch that can be obtained on official atari support
site??? It's not patch for beta game.

EDIT:
Hmm...
That thread was 2 weeks old.
I think it was closed since it was posted before resonable time passed from patch release (2 weeks min by forum rules).

dyna-might · #4 05-01-2004, 13:16

Quote:

Originally posted by krondike
there is no offical patch out yet. This is just a BETA patch, use the search button and you will found it out. And look what happen to the other topic thread that ask for it..

The next "official" patch will come out in Q2/2004! Atari/Firaxis don't want to go through the whole tiresome QA procedure. That's why the patch was declared beta.

I can provide you with a link to a post by the responsible (jesse smith) on a community board, if requested.

So please dear fixers, please try

By the way: There's a new (beta) patch coming out in january - if I can chose which should be patched, please do the coming one

PS: In another thread someone recommended to create an image with nero or alcohol. And mount it with daemon tools. Well, i tried - it didn't work

P22 · #5 05-01-2004, 15:58

While I have 0% cracking experience wouldn't the craking procedure work like this:

-Disassemle original Civ3Conquests.exe (v1.0)
-Disassemle Drunk's no-cd cracked Civ3Conquests.exe (v1.0)
-compare these two
-Disassemle original Civ3Conquests.exe (v1.12)
-make exact same changes like in Drunk's no-cd crack
-recomplie modified Civ3Conquests.exe

Am I right, or maybe it's not that much simple as I think?

P.S.
If I only had 1% of experience, maybe I would crack it myself (instead of waiting 2 weeks).

Wishfull thinking...

krondike · #6 05-01-2004, 18:41

Well good luck to you!

But can I add something?

1.0 version is protection with SafeDisc 2.9

1.12f version is protected with SafeDisc 3.15.

When it cracked it's unprotected and can be dissamble. When it's SafeDisc protected, it can be dissable but you wont understand when you got 0% crack experince, and often SafeDisc 2.6 or higher, can't be dissabled.... GOOD LUCK!

P22 · #7 06-01-2004, 03:22

EDIT:
Never mind

P.S.
I never really thought that they change copy-protection during patches. That does make things messy (too messy for the begginer).

P22 · #8 07-01-2004, 13:30

For anybody who is working on this crack: STOP!

There is new patch here: v1.13, let's crack this one

Only download link I found is this:
http://cdgroup.org/forums/site/main/...t=1001&start=0
(I guess it will be uploaded to Atari Support page at later date)

If this one also uses SafeDisc 3.15, and considering that this patch in on low prrority for making a crack, I guess that I'll need to wait for some time...

P22 · #9 07-01-2004, 13:41

Forget the last thing I said.
It looks that this "patch" is unofficial beta patch and that in one day 1.14 will also come (confusing???)

Better to wait for official beta patch at atarisupport.com (like it was 1.12), and that crack such version.

krondike · #10 07-01-2004, 14:20

make an image of your original CD, and emulate it with Alcohol 120%

dyna-might · #11 09-01-2004, 07:42

krondike,
are you sure this works? and if so, why can't i get it to work?

i've tried making an image and emulating it.
- to create the image, i've used nero and blindread.
- to emulate it, i've tried daemon tools and a120.

i tried all combinations.. nothing went

my CD-drive isn't that old, and i've have got the original disk of civ3 and both expansion packs.

what am i doing wrong?

RincewindTheWiz · #12 09-01-2004, 14:34

You have to create the image with a copy protection copy program, so making it with Nero will never work. Blindread should work, but try Alcohol120% to be sure. Don't forget to select the correct copy protection option when making the image (i.e. Securom New etc).

krondike · #13 09-01-2004, 16:29

It's SafeDisc 3 protected, use SafeDisc 2 profile the disc is still SafeDisc 2 protected (SafeDisc 2.9).

USE latest alcohol, it will fix the blacklist problem and emulatation problems.

1.13 is a real patch, and not a private made patch. It's company build. How ever you need 1.12 before you install 1.13!

dyna-might · #14 10-01-2004, 06:31

no, as a matter of fact, 1.13 was leaked out and wasn't really meant to be released. the next semi-official patch will come out end of next week and should be 1.14 (except if they decide to fix something more and do another build)

thanks for the tip, RincewindTheWiz, i'll try it today

dyna-might · #15 11-01-2004, 12:37

it worked!

thanks guys for the tips! i got worried, when the first approx. 20MB had read errors and were skipped, but after that it read the data perfectly fine. and i could mount the image with alcohol 120%.

now i can finally play the game on my notebook without having to bring the disks with me the whole time

thanks again!