Warcraft II BNE

MyndFyre · September 21, 2006, 09:49 PM

Quote from: Joex86] link=topic=15763.msg158620#msg158620 date=1158892836]
There was a WarCraft II DOS version, MyndFyre? I don't know much about W2: Tides of Darkness (rather than W2: BNE), but I suppose it was in DOS?

Yup. Tides of Darkness was the original, and Into the Dark Portal was the expansion. AFAIK, both were available only on CD-ROM.

The original Warcraft game shipped on four 3.5" floppy diskettes and MIDI background music, or a CD-ROM with digital music tracks.

UserLoser · September 21, 2006, 09:53 PM

How are you supposed to make a no CD crack if you don't have the game to test it on?

RealityRipple · September 21, 2006, 10:00 PM

Quote from: UserLoser on September 21, 2006, 09:53 PM
How are you supposed to make a no CD crack if you don't have the game to test it on?

guess and have someone else check?

The basic idea behind all my No-CD cracks is the same.
1) Copy any required files from the cd (INSTALL.EXE for w2bn).
2) Create a cracked version of Storm.dll (find 66 81 F9 00 1F 74, change 74 to EB) and change registry keys to look in the right place.
3) Use the cracked version to load the game, then switch back to the normal version immediately so that it will work on BNet.
4) Clean up.

RealityRipple · September 21, 2006, 10:07 PM

BTW, edited the no-cd to change the path to a direct location (it was "." before). Maybe it will work now? http://realityripple.com/Uploads/nob.zip

l2k-Shadow · September 21, 2006, 10:43 PM

There you go, now it works, good job.

lmao, you are keeping the storm.dll at the end of the file?

RealityRipple · September 21, 2006, 10:44 PM

Wootz! Yay for stabbing the dark blindly!

You tested connecting to bnet, too, right?

l2k-Shadow · September 21, 2006, 10:46 PM

yes i did

RealityRipple · September 21, 2006, 10:47 PM

Good. then it's time to put it on my site as a working file. Thanks guys (especially |2k)!

l2k-Shadow · September 21, 2006, 10:49 PM

Quote from: RealityRipple on September 21, 2006, 10:47 PM
Good. then it's time to put it on my site as a working file. Thanks guys (especially |2k)!

it's L2K, Ruthless Killaz, R spelled L2.

RealityRipple · September 21, 2006, 10:52 PM

aww, but pipes are more fun. And ya, it has a cracked copy of storm in the Resource File at the end. It's a very simplistic design, no data/memory editing required, just file renaming.

Hero · September 22, 2006, 01:37 AM

I could never find a war2 cd crack, I'll have to install it again, thanks. =)

RealityRipple · September 22, 2006, 01:42 AM

The final working version (along with d1, sc, and war3 No-CDs) can be found here: http://realityripple.com/software/other/
I like the new war2 icon i made

l2k-Shadow · September 22, 2006, 09:23 AM

still it has to retrieve the file from the CD, so if you don't have the CD or it is scratched (which is really the only 2 reasons people want a no-CD crack) you're screwed either way.

vuther.de · September 22, 2006, 03:14 PM

I tried out your Starcraft and Warcraft III No-CD crack, it gave me a error when I ran it. I don't remember the error.

RealityRipple · September 22, 2006, 05:56 PM

I'd appreciate it if you tried again and told me what the error was... (The crack has to be in the game's directory, by the way). As for requiring the CD, ya... There's no way around that. Only Warcraft 3 can run without any extra files from the CD. Every other game stores something important on the cd. For d1 it's Diabdat.mpq, for SC and war2 it's INSTALL.EXE, and for D2 it's some MPQ's...