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I am a first time installer cracking newb with no real programming knowledge and only limited experience coding in qbasic 4.5 when I was 12. I am here to try and learn the ways of the force, and have my way with an installer for one of my more favorite games. I would also like to learn how to do a proper noCD crack for the game exe, but slip-streaming the game disk and maybe some modding will do just fine for me!
I am happy to have found this resource, though it may be more intended towards passwords than program cracking, I will find out more as I browse the forums.
I will be saving up over the next two years to buy a copy of "IDA Pro" in order to reverse engineer the installer so that I can disable the .cab file signing. I also need to figure out how to unpack, modify, and repack the .CABs without loosing the extra data stored within; I reckon that is a patch.
I also might just want to create a scripted installer, and I just thought I would mention that is among my plans, along with making repackaged installers that are basically "digital downlaod" editions of the game installer (the game only comes on disk, though no-install/directplay versions exist and are easy to make for this game as long as you are noCD cracked.
Is cracking and patching on topic here? I am pretty sure what I want to do is considered a mod of sorts, depending on how deep I want to go. I know some of the other things I want to do are off topic so I will not be adressing them any further here unless somebody asks about them.
I don't always check my responses right away but I try to be present and prompt in getting to them as soon as I see them, if in fact a response seems warranted.
I just thought that I would add that with all that is going on in the world, I will have plenty of time to keep myself occupied. This new skill will come in handy for other things someday I sure think. I know the community surrounding my game would sure appreciate me someday releasing a guide for them to do it themselves.
Seems like the right thing to learn right now since I got a lot of free time and a pretty decent computer right now that I can code on.
Happy cracking all!
I am happy to have found this resource, though it may be more intended towards passwords than program cracking, I will find out more as I browse the forums.
I will be saving up over the next two years to buy a copy of "IDA Pro" in order to reverse engineer the installer so that I can disable the .cab file signing. I also need to figure out how to unpack, modify, and repack the .CABs without loosing the extra data stored within; I reckon that is a patch.
I also might just want to create a scripted installer, and I just thought I would mention that is among my plans, along with making repackaged installers that are basically "digital downlaod" editions of the game installer (the game only comes on disk, though no-install/directplay versions exist and are easy to make for this game as long as you are noCD cracked.
Is cracking and patching on topic here? I am pretty sure what I want to do is considered a mod of sorts, depending on how deep I want to go. I know some of the other things I want to do are off topic so I will not be adressing them any further here unless somebody asks about them.
I don't always check my responses right away but I try to be present and prompt in getting to them as soon as I see them, if in fact a response seems warranted.
I just thought that I would add that with all that is going on in the world, I will have plenty of time to keep myself occupied. This new skill will come in handy for other things someday I sure think. I know the community surrounding my game would sure appreciate me someday releasing a guide for them to do it themselves.
Seems like the right thing to learn right now since I got a lot of free time and a pretty decent computer right now that I can code on.
Happy cracking all!
