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- Knowledge Base(i`ll show you mine if you show me yourz)
- revised 16-10-98 R!SC
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- at offset 18cbd0 in wargames.exe is a build date, in the one off the CD its like this
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- 0018cbd0 4A 75 6C 20 32 30 20 31 39 39 38 00 57 61 72 47 Jul 20 1998.WarG
- 0018cbe0 61 6D 65 73 20 28 42 75 69 6C 64 20 25 73 29 00 ames (Build %s).
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- in the patch i got its like this
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- 0018cbd0 4A 75 6C 20 33 30 20 31 39 39 38 00 57 61 72 47 Jul 30 1998.WarG
- 0018cbe0 61 6D 65 73 20 28 42 75 69 6C 64 20 25 73 29 00 ames (Build %s).
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- in the exe posted me its like this
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- 00198960 00 00 00 00 4A 75 6E 20 32 33 20 31 39 39 38 00 ....Jun 23 1998.
- 00198970 57 61 72 47 61 6D 65 73 20 28 42 75 69 6C 64 20 WarGames (Build
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- the protection looks for a file on the cd called launcher.exe, if it finds
- it the game will work, i made it look for the file on your HD instead, and
- made it look for "autoexec.bat", which i know you have on your c: drive?
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- * Possible StringData Ref from Data Obj ->"%c:\launcher.exe" ;changed to "autoexec.bat"
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- :0052486F 68901D5B00 push 005B1D90
- :00524874 8D95FCFEFFFF lea edx, dword ptr [ebp+FFFFFEFC]
- :0052487A 52 push edx
- :0052487B E880D60300 call 00561F00
- :00524880 83C40C add esp, 0000000C
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- * Possible StringData Ref from Data Obj ->"rb"
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- :00524883 68A41D5B00 push 005B1DA4
- :00524888 8D85FCFEFFFF lea eax, dword ptr [ebp+FFFFFEFC]
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- so every time you play the game, it will search for autoexec.bat
- in the root directory of c: , find it and pass the cd-protection
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