NWN2 NO DVD Patches

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:23:03 -0000, "Trimble Bracegirdle"
<no-spam.TakeThisOut@Spam.Not> wrote:

>This may well not be news for Neverwinter Night 2 owners.
>
>I don't own the game but have just visited someone who does..
>He / they wanted to NO DVD there up to date version ver 1.3 is
>it ?... and queried my known expertise..
>I could only find the crack for version 1.00 ..consists of 2 exe files
>one for Intel...One for AMD CPU's ..tried this on there 1.3
>and seemed to be working OK ..
>I can hardly ever take to these Little People on a Checker Board
>..lots of Stats. RPG's. (except for Planescape Torment)
>Mouse
>@@@
>
>

Our local no-CD/no-DVD patch air-head ??? Nice to know your intense
and dedicated support for pirates.

I do hope that more of the game-developers using on-
disk protection ACTUALLY DO what Bohemia did with Op Flashpoint. Hide
a code easter-egg, such that the conventional removal of on-disk
protection causes the SP game to behave very wierdly halfway through
the campaign. I do hope that Piranha also slipped such an easter-egg
into Gothic3. A poke in the eye for the pirates (without using
Steam-style authentication) and the users of their warez, screaming
about game-bugs, when it is actually their no-CD hacks are responsible
for triggering the game misbehavior. And make sure that the totallly
crippling anomaly only turns up after many hours of gameplay and then
self-modifies the installed game-code so that all saves are rendered
useless.

John Lewis
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John Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:23:03 -0000, "Trimble Bracegirdle"
> <no-spam RemoveThis @Spam.Not> wrote:
>
> >This may well not be news for Neverwinter Night 2 owners.
> >
> >I don't own the game but have just visited someone who does..
> >He / they wanted to NO DVD there up to date version ver 1.3 is
> >it ?... and queried my known expertise..
> >I could only find the crack for version 1.00 ..consists of 2 exe files
> >one for Intel...One for AMD CPU's ..tried this on there 1.3
> >and seemed to be working OK ..
> >I can hardly ever take to these Little People on a Checker Board
> >..lots of Stats. RPG's. (except for Planescape Torment)
> >Mouse
> >@@@
> >
> >
>
> Our local no-CD/no-DVD patch air-head ??? Nice to know your intense
> and dedicated support for pirates.
>
> I do hope that more of the game-developers using on-
> disk protection ACTUALLY DO what Bohemia did with Op Flashpoint. Hide
> a code easter-egg, such that the conventional removal of on-disk
> protection causes the SP game to behave very wierdly halfway through
> the campaign. I do hope that Piranha also slipped such an easter-egg
> into Gothic3. A poke in the eye for the pirates (without using
> Steam-style authentication) and the users of their warez, screaming
> about game-bugs, when it is actually their no-CD hacks are responsible
> for triggering the game misbehavior. And make sure that the totallly
> crippling anomaly only turns up after many hours of gameplay and then
> self-modifies the installed game-code so that all saves are rendered
> useless.
>
> John Lewis

Fuck you, many of us use nocd hacks or patches on the games we legally
own, I hate to change disks and prefer to keep game disks stored and
out of the way.
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Zaghadka wrote:

> Unfortunately, such actions might just make it look like they programmed a
> flaky game in the first place. It's a bad idea to *deliberately* program in
> bugs that only get activated by a no-cd, simply because of the fact that a lot
> of legitimate owners use them. Ultimately, I think it makes the publisher, and
> the game, look bad.
>
> I understand your frustrations, but deliberate sabotage isn't the answer. If
> no-cd's are a bad idea, they should be so on their *own* lack of merit, not
> because the publisher is setting deliberate traps.

That was about the stoopidest thing Lewis has written in a long time,
especially considering, as you mention, many legit owners of games
prefer to use no-cd/dvd cracks. If anything, game devs should give up
the ghost & only check cd-keys/media when installing - the rest of it
does nothing but inconvenience legit owners & wear out their cd/dvd
drives ffs! Pirates have working cracks before most games even come out
in places like Aus lol, so it's just a mug's game if you ask me.

--
"Gothic is nothing for noobs." - Gabriele Neukam 31/10

Nostromo
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The nice polite man (?) just said; >
>>>"such that the conventional removal of on-disk
protection causes the SP game to behave very weirdly halfway through..
.......... A poke in the eye for the pirates (without using
Steam-style authentication) and the users of their warez" >>>

Yes Indeed ! What ever the rights n wrongs involved its all ways
puzzled that me 'They' don't use more of the secondary later in the game
type of checks.

Of the very many games I have or have had the only 3 I could not get NO CD
(and I really tried) were TOMB RAIDER 1st one ..Star Wars Jedi Jnight 2 :
Outcast,
and Jedi Academy ...the last 2 can be got NO CD in the single but not the
Multiplayer..
they crash ...Tomb Raider 1st was / is just plain strange & complicated ..
eventually some did a messy NO CD ..

Those Star Wars games did it by not only checking at start up for the Disk
but then again for extra graphic data a bit later ...no one has ever cracked
that
system...
Even the very tough Starforce in Splinter Cell Chaos Theory only
(seemingly )
does its many checks at start-up. Once some Cracker had worked out (months
after release) what and where is checked on the DVD a working crack was
made.
There are very many ways a disk check system might work ..along with
complex Update Patch system (like NWN2) ...its odd 'They' don't use them.
Mouse
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john.dsl DeleteThis @verizon.net (John Lewis) wrote in news:459981e6.7962078

> Our local no-CD/no-DVD patch air-head ??? Nice to know your intense
> and dedicated support for pirates.

I bought NWN2 with my hard earned money and I like no-disc patches so take
your prejudice elsewhere. No-disc patches do NOT equal piracy, so shut up
if you have no idea what you're talking about.

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Michael Cecil <macecil.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in

> Did you find a no-cd patch for NWN2? All I've seen have been little
> disc images to use with drive emulators.

NWN1 was one of the only games I never bothered with no-discing because it
constantly updates over the Internet, so you have to switch back and forth
the "real" exe and the fixed exe all the time, so the updater can patch.
Less trouble to keep the disc in drive.

I assume it'll be the same with NWN2, if they patch at a similar kind of
frequent rate.

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