NoDVD creation for rare games

[WaltonSimons]

It won't help -- TR: Legend's exe is not unicode. I've had it with the Polish version, but on a smaller scale -- using the crack merely broke the Polish fonts in the launcher menu, not in the game itself.

[zakku1991]

Originally Posted by WaltonSimons

It won't help -- TR: Legend's exe is not unicode. I've had it with the Polish version, but on a smaller scale -- using the crack merely broke the Polish fonts in the launcher menu, not in the game itself.

Yeah that's exactly what happens to me. My next idea would be to hex compare the original tr7exe from the disk, to a nocd cracked version. This will prove difficult to find the correct almost matching file size exes hmm. By the way, i'm sure you know but there is a polish crack for trl on gamecopyworld i noticed it the other day

[Joe Forster/STA]

Oh my god, this is a no-CD patch without actually removing the SecuROM protection?! I'm throughly impressed!

[...] There are tons of programs for comparing binary files but there are only a few that can compare binary files of not the same size. I recommend xdelta: first, create a delta with xdelta -e -s SOURCE TARGET DELTA (replace uppercase words with actual filenames) and then have the delta "disassambled" with xdelta printdelta DELTA. The disassembly is quite cryptic but, apparently:
- ADD means copying data from the delta into the target, CPY_* from the source/target;
- S@XXX means XXX (decimal) offset in source, T@XXX in target.