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- Quake 2 CD-Check tutorial...
-
- by Xcellent for TrickSoft - "Software made free by us"
-
- We going really fast these days!! This is a old game, sorry but I have no
- money to buy new games and no time!! But I still have some time to write
- tutorials, but that's ok. This protection is very easy, and u will have
- no probs cracking this one.
-
- Tools nedeed:
- W32Dasm 8.9 (www.crackstore.com)
- Any hex editor (www.crackstore.com have many)
-
- Run Quake 2 and, hmm..... it seems to be working...but click Game, easy
- and...."You must have the Quake2 CD in the drive to play." Ok,
- that's no prob, run W32Dasm and open quake2.exe, click on String
- Data References and search for the message then double click on
- it. Now you will see:
- * Referenced by a (U)nconditional or (C)onditional Jump at Address:
- |:0042B21E(C) <- THIS is what we're searching for....
- |
- :0042B235 8A442404 mov al, byte ptr [esp+04]
- :0042B239 FEC0 inc al
- :0042B23B 3C7A cmp al, 7A
- :0042B23D 88442404 mov byte ptr [esp+04], al
- :0042B241 0F8E6AFFFFFF jle 0042B1B1
-
- * Possible StringData Ref from Data Obj ->"You must have the Quake2 CD in "
- ->"the drive to play."
- |
- :0042B247 6864474400 push 00444764
- ...
- Did you see a reference jump at :0042B21E?? Ok, that's the way, press
- Shift + F12, type 42B21E and press enter. Now you should see:
- * Possible StringData Ref from Data Obj ->".\quake2.exe" <- get file on CD
- |
- :0042B1FC 6898474400 push 00444798
- :0042B201 52 push edx
- :0042B202 E839430000 call 0042F540
- :0042B207 83C40C add esp, 0000000C
- :0042B20A 8D442408 lea eax, dword ptr [esp+08]
-
- * Possible StringData Ref from Data Obj ->"r" <- hmm...means "READ FILE"
- |
- :0042B20E 68A8474400 push 004447A8
- :0042B213 50 push eax
- :0042B214 E897250000 call 0042D7B0
- :0042B219 83C408 add esp, 00000008
- :0042B21C 85C0 test eax, eax <- compare results
- :0042B21E 7415 je 0042B235 <- if no cd then jump
- :0042B220 50 push eax <- else continue
- :0042B221 E86A200000 call 0042D290
- :0042B226 83C404 add esp, 00000004
- :0042B229 8D4C2404 lea ecx, dword ptr [esp+04]
- :0042B22D 51 push ecx
- :0042B22E FFD6 call esi
- :0042B230 83F805 cmp eax, 00000005
- :0042B233 7421 je 0042B256 <- run the game
- ...
- What we'll change it's the je 0042B235 to nop, but we must know the offset,
- so move the bar till the address :0042B21E and look at the bottom of screen
- and you will see @Offset 0002A61Eh. Now we know the offset that is 2A61E.
- So run your hexadecimal editor, open quake2.exe and search for the offset
- 2A61E, then change 7415 to 9090 and save. Run the game and....!!No CD!!
- That was simple, I will try to find a game harder to crack..
- That's all and I hope you enjoyed this little tutor.
-
- Xcellent - The Brazillian crack3r
- xcellen@bol.com.br
- www.tricksoft.net
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