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lame game tutorial #2: creating a cracked update
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for german readers: There must be a german version of this tutor around...

wtf?
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Well, we all have expirienced the following situation:

You have l33ched your favorite game from MYTH,CLASS or whatever! But, as usual, a brand new titel is very very buggy and you donwloaded the latest patch, trying to install it and b00m: "Cannot find install dir" or "corrupt install, please reinstall from CD", sometimes the update works but if you want to start: "Please inster CD blablabla in your CD ROM and try again" !!! Now here you can wait for MYTH,CLASS,DiViNE etc. to release a cracked update or if you an inteligent cracker, letz do something...

Well, id like to present 3 different ways of creating a cracked update, there are much more other ways, but ill only show you some easy techniques, the rest is for you *g*

tools:
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Not much!
brain			the most important tool
IceTea			can be replaced by any non-alcoholic drink (gell BBK;)
FileMon			included
unSafeDisc 1.3.1	included
regedit			believe it or not: Its included in Windows *ggg*

1. the veeeeeeeeeeeery easy way:
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hehe, this way is very lame, youll c...

Quake 3 Arena Point Release 1.17
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Just l33ch from your favorite site (www.quake3arena.com or www.3dfiles.com ;), now you have a "q3pointrelease_117.exe", seems like a nice install prog :P

Just run the EXE, it asks for Quake 3 Arenas path...hm...well, my Q3A path is C:\gamez\Q3A, hm, letz just change the patch to c:\temp\q3a for example..WHAT THE FUCK ?!? It works!!! The installer copies all files to a different dir!!! MUHUHUHUHUHA !!
Just go to your "whereeveryoupulledthefuck" dir: All files there! You may test if it realy works but since its a tutor you can believe me *g*

Well, all you have to do is to crack the Quake 3 Arena EXE (lame CD check) and to repack the files! Now you have a fully cracked update, easy isnt it ?

k, this was lame, so we come to a more trickier way...

Majesty update #2
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Again, just l33ch the update from your favorite site, run the update...shit! It cannot find the Majesty :P Oh my god, you are such a dump bitch!!! If you have the iSO everything goes fine, but if you have the CLASS rip, you forgot to import the majesty.reg LOL. Well, after doubleclicking try again...k, next,yes... "Installing to: ." ?!?! MUHUHUHUHUA !!! Well, cancel setup, take a look at the majesty.reg (or in your local registry)...

"INSTALLPATH"="." <--- veeeeery interesting *g*

Well, letz change it to:

"INSTALLPATH"="c:\\temp\\maj"

run again...kewl, the setup copies all files to c:\temp\maj *evilg*

Just use R!SC unSafeDisc on Majesty.icd. Now you can delete:

MAJESTY.ICD
Majesty.exe
secdrv.sys
dplayer.dll
clokspl.exe
clcd32.dll
clcd16.dll
00000409.016
00000409.256
drvmgt.dll

all these files are for fucking SafeDisc only, 4 megs of shit!!!
Rename testme.exe to Majesty.exe, test, works fine, go and repack it ;)

Well, here comes the last one...

Star Trek Armada 1.1 (final)
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As usual: Go and l33ch the Star Trek Armada 1.1 (final) update (www.st-armada.com) try to install it...uh ? It works ?!? Well, but we want to get the installed files only!!! There are many ways to get these little bitches, here is a very dump but ease one:

Go and get FileMon !!! (protools.cjb.net)

Launch it...damn it scrolls everytime :P Just go to Drives and uncheck all the unnecessary drives (f.e: If STA is in C:\gamez\STA uncheck all drives beside c:)
Just leave FileMon in background and start the update, it installes fine, go back to FileMon, highlight all and click File/save as.../sta.nfo, open sta.nfo:
Enjoyed the whole bullshit in there ? *g* Most stuff is abolutaly unimportant, but if you look carefully trough it you see stuff like this:

75 16:34:18 Armada_patch_1_: IRP_MJ_CLOSE C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\armada.exe	SUCCESS

scroll a bit down...

85 16:34:20 Armada_patch_1_: FASTIO_LOCK C:\gamez\Star Trek Armadaanet.inf SUCCESS Excl: No Offset: 0 Length: -1

I like the C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada :P
What FileMon writes down and the whole SUCCESS, CLOSE awe shit is absolute nonsense for us now! Just look carefully throu the log to get all the files which were changed!
At the end you should have:

C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\Armada.exe
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\ART_CFG.h
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\assets.zfs
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\Dynamic_Localized_Strings.h
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\label.map
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\objtxt.zfs
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\startrek.zix
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\Credits2.txt
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\WonInterface.dll
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\Credits.txt
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\LDL\language.ldl
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\LDL\string.ldl
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\LDL\string_e.ldl
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\LDL\string_g.ldl
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\textures\WKsuperW.tga
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\bzn\2deadzone.bmp
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\bzn\2deadzone.bzn
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\bzn\2hidden.bmp
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\bzn\2hidden.bzn
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\bzn\4hole.bmp
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\bzn\4hole.bzn
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\bzn\5assault.bmp
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\bzn\5assault.bzn
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\bzn\6violins.bmp
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\bzn\6violins.bzn
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\help\readme.htm
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\help\readme.rtf
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\help2\Installing_the_game.htm
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\missions\Federation5S.dsl
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\missions\Finale1S.dsl
C:\gamez\Star Trek Armada\missions\Finale6S.dsl

Well, hard job, hehehe. Just crack the Armada.exe (lame CD check) repack the files and you have a fully cracked update for Star Trek Armada !!!

Final Notes: You have seen that its not very hard to create cracked updates, sometimes you can 	even unRAR the update exe !!! So just play around with the RegSettings or the *.ini files 	etc, there are a lot tricks and hints, nearly every update is different ;)

thats all folks...

contact
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eMail:	samuel.behl@gmx.de	<-- NOT my real name, just a nice fake ;)
ICQ#: 	23503198		<-- please, no request!!!

Would be nice to get a positive/negative feedback! Maybe i rewrite this tutor...

CyA@tha#

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