NO CD hack?

[Guest]

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The NO CD patches are legal, and I was wondering if you guys could put something in the next install that allowed for a NO CD key patchto be installed. Beacues i wanted to play this on my LAN but couldn't cause I only have 1 CD.

Thanks!

[Hunter08721]

I only have 1 computer to and wanted to play on lan

[Evil]

.... you can use a no cd crack there is many that will work

I only have 1 computer to and wanted to play on lan

thats a joke right? i found it kinda funny

[Mercenary]

I don't think this is going to be an option. I am quite sure they do not want to assume the legal responsibilities for those that are not entitled to such "mechanisms". Please find or make your own, and assume your own responsiblity for it.

[NiNjai]

Uh.. CRC protection is encoded into MTA? I doubt that. Only the game itself has CRC protection.. and it's easily bypassed.. check out GCW..

[Mercenary]

Uh.. CRC protection is encoded into MTA? I doubt that. Only the game itself has CRC protection.. and it's easily bypassed.. check out GCW..

Huh? Do you have any idea what you even said?

[NiNjai]

I'm very aware of what I just said. Would you like me to explain?

[Mercenary]

I think I can go on living happily without being baffled by your ignorance.

[NiNjai]

Right. Well, I'm glad you can decide that I'm ignorant from one post. But what I said was indeed accurate. MTA does not have any CD-checks built into it. Nor, would I imagine any will ever be built in. The only cd checks are in the original game .exe. Which, are easily bypassed. They are, CRC checks (cyclonic redundancy checks) They would not have to make an "option" like you posted above for such "mechanisms" since there is no need to.

[Blokker_1999]

First of all : MTA has no CRC checks at this moment

Second: if we had, hacking the client to remove it would be illegal

third : a no cd crack is illegal:

* due to the fact you may not hack the exe file.

* you may not use 1 copy of the game on 2 machines on the same time. So playing on a LAN with only 1 copy is illegal

[Mercenary]

The original poster was wanting an install that automatically overwrote the original executable with a "no-cd version. And last time I checked, no CD verification utility EVER used CRC. Correct me if I am wrong, but the protection used on Vice City is called "SecuRom". No one is asking for MTA to do SecuRom checks. They were looking for a way to get around them, since they claim it to be "legal". My advice was for them to find their own, and claim their own responsibility, instead of MTA potentially providing a way for those that do not have legitimate copies to otherwise circumvent this. And thank YOU.

[NiNjai]

Oh, my terminology may be slightly inaccurate. However, safedisc 2 does use CRC checks.. and you should research a bit more before assuming you know anything. No-CD cracks are legal if you actually own a "backup" At least.. in the country I live in. But as Blokker stated, running 2 seperate copies of 1 licensed material(s) is illegal.

[Mercenary]

Eh?

http://www.cd-pressage.com/downloads/safedisc.pdf

http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-de ... fedisc.txt

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php ... adid=45260

There is mention of using a checksum, but that is merely one step in the process.

Edited August 24, 2003 by Guest

[NiNjai]

Yeah.. there's no real technical data on that pdf document. That's merely a marketing spread. I really do not care to argue over something I already know is correct. If you do not realize that CRC is part of the process and essentially a key factor.. well, that's you. Cya