EA Won't Let Me Play This Game - So I Hacked It 

Do you know if there is away to restore full screen dosmode to Windows 10/11 , You can restore dosmode to windows, however they did block full screen mode from running.

I actually have a physical copy of Black and White if you'd like to get it we can discuss details.

Black & White was a great game, so was #2. Haven't seen it's likes or any attempt at a copy. A shame... games today have a hard time not adding zombies! I still have the original discs, just have to dust off my 3200+ and 9800 AIW!

EA did the same to me with Crysis 3. DVD-ROM not work!!

@@francoisleveille409 I had a similar issue with Crysis 2. Called their hotline and had it working within minutes. They'll take care of you if you call. Or..they used to.

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Oh neat, I have the same combination on my luggage!

@@WackoMcGoose Space Balls: The Reference!

Lmao you had me there 😂

Getting to the game is often more fun than the game itself (:

That was the fun part of a game genie, not just typing in the codes you got from the book but actually finding the codes

@@nathanbaggs or we could try and reverse out the key check algorithm and create our own key "Lets do the latter, it's a bit more challenging but could be a lot of fun". As u said :DD

@@nathanbaggs Yes proving you are guilty of software fraud with a video on here is really smart! Now take the fork out of the toaster!

true=false poof.

I did exactly the same back in the late 90's. Worked fine. With current games it won't be possible any more.

Don’t mess with Rick Sanchez 😂

Yes! This was basically how I did it back in the day. Was way easier to patch the return code than to reverse engineer the algorithm. Ahh things were so much simpler back then.

or you could change the elseif to return the same value as the if. That way it wouldn't matter what you put in.

Thanks for the insight. I got so wrapped up in the nitty gritty I forgot to take a step back and look at what it was actually doing

@@nathanbaggs If you see 0x30 being subtracted from numeric input, it's doing ASCII to integer. If you see base 10 things being done in a start at zero, read, multiply by 10, add loop, it's doing string to integer.

@@nathanbaggs erm there is a read me in the stuff you ripped from the internet, usually they contain the info you need to install the game, like CD keys and how to install it (like sometimes you need to copy a crack into some specific file, stuff like that)

@@daftwulli6145 Yep, as soon as I saw the files in that folder I was thinking the same. Not that I've ever seen a ripped game or anything.

@@ferrumignis Yea of course not, who would ever do that ? Btw quite a few studies showed that most often piracy is not done for monbetary reasons, but for reasons of convinience. If you do not give potential customers a good and simple way to pay you for the product they look for alternatives. Streaming plattforms are a big example. When netflix started out, and you had all the shows you want in one convinient place, TV show piracy droped by over 80%. But then more and more streaming plattforms apeared and each had less and less shows, so you had to look up everything you want to watch to see who had it, and thus had to plattform hop all the time, it went right back up. Funny how that works. Same goes for anti piracy meassures that are a pain in the ass for users that actually paid for the game, while pirates had no such problems. Also nobody wants minutes of unskippable adds on a dvd they paid good money for. Or why do i need to be constantly online for a single player game ? There is litjerally noi reasdon I need to be online thge whole time, and there have been so many occasions where my internet was spotty or crashed and I wanted to game till it comes back. So I will no longer buy games that demand I have to be online at all times I could keep going with examples all day, but it all goes back to the same nonsense : if piracy is way more convinient then buying something, and way less of a hassle, people will pirate. So companies should stop the BS on their paying customers, or they will find alternatives.

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A lot of console games did this as well.

I remember some games were doing it, i thought that it was a gimmick which occurred when devs for some reason didn't make a saving process or it was technically impossible to handle the saving process like on cheap/bootleg disks and cartridges when it was impossible to write data on them or in the console

those are actul save points for each individual player. none of them were the same unless you had the same scenario and assets... which is extreamly unlikely. man i miss lemmings... there are a few games today that may be better or equal to the quality... buy even their demos are paid to play. sorry im not paying for something before i know what im getting, blizzard taught me this. because of blizzard ive atopped paying for software at all without a fully unlocked version thats free.

@@pazsion yep that is how it worked on the Sega Mastersystem games.

Not quite that...

Would be irresponsible if I did...

@@nathanbaggssure. EA lawyers have no mercy

As someone has already posted, he effectively did give away the numbers, just not in decimal.

I still have it and use it to this day. Sometimes to install Sims 1, FIFA and NFS games.

I'm still not sure that was not malware, but damn it was handy and the pieces of music on various versions rocked.

@@djdamagedomeIt’s less malware than any of the DRM BS publishers put in nowadays.

You had that one too? I think I still have it in an old hard drive with windows XP lol.

I can still hear the music playing

That should be easy enough, just have to lock Peter Molineux in a deep dark dungeon and ensure he never, ever hears about it

Thanks for the kind words! I'm really enjoying solving puzzles and sharing that with everyone

Much appreciated!

He's got gorgeous eyes as well😅. Instant subscribe

New sub here.

Even more, windows has some apps that wasn't updated since win 95 or even 3.1.

It's pretty much the selling point for Windows at this point. They even have patches for broken games. If you're running the old Sims games, the kernel will allocate memory differently because the Sims has bugs in their memory usage.

The installer might look good, but trust me the game does not run without any issues once you actually boot it x(

Gawd, don't get me started on this... I recently tried to install my legit Adobe CS6 Master Collection on an Intel Mac running Catalina... Pure rage ensued. I have some grumpiness toward Apple for that. The frikkin' INSTALLER used some 32bit code so a 64bit application can't be installed. Seriously?!

@@hadamana Microsoft went so far as to bundle 32-bit InstallShield engines to transparently swap in if you try to install a 32-bit game with a 16-bit installer after they finally decided that 20 years was enough and didn't write support for 16-bit apps in 64-bit Windows.

It was on a CDRom not a DVD.

Same difference one just has more layers on the disc for storage

@@fueledbyllama3043 No, actually. a 4.4GiB DVD is still single-layer... it just packs the spiral more tightly... though it *does* sandwich it between two half-thickness pieces of polycarbonate instead of sitting on top of a full-thickness one with only a layer of lacquer to protect it.

As a non owner without any of that shit, so did I

Yep. Still got mine.

Yes I started looking at what happens next and it's, interesting... Hoping to get some time to come back to it and maybe do another video on it

Windows 7? I know that Windows 10+ disallows (some? all?) disc-based DRM, but I have never encountered a disc that could not be installed on my Win 7 system. I do not have a disc copy of Black & White, though.

It was blocked in Windows 10 out of the box. Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1 blocked it with the KB3086255 update. Uninstalling this update might allow disk based DRMs to run on those operating systems, but there's no way to get it running on Windows 10 and newer. DRM must be removed altogether, patching it like cracks did back in the day won't work.

​@@DezsikeDevil1 Right, right. I do not have that update installed. And that very freedom is one of the many reasons I'm using Windows 7. I will be building a Windows 10 system, but it will _only_ be used for playing (single-player) DX12 games. It will not be connected to the Web.

Yeah, this reminds me of running my own program, which I wrote myself on Delphi. And running it under W10 was tricky. Windows just closes it at some point. No antivirus warning, no nothing. It just closes and all. It started after I added function, which get process list, and kill one process if its name is matched. It was added as I call curl.exe using CreateProcess function. And sometimes it hangs, so I need to kill it and restart. It was fun for me, that Windows just kills my program, when it try to call the function. And later program file is removed from disk. No any quarantine records, no nothing too = ) It was even funnier at first, as I just copied some function from the Internet, KillTask it was called. My program was just removed on run. After I modified my function code, so it was not universal anymore, I just made it look for particluar process name, it was alright. But a couple of weeks, and it started to kill it and remover once again. I guess some cloud antivirus protection leaked my program to MS, they analized it and blacklisted for no purpose. Well, I am just glad I do not use Windows for myself for 15 years or so. As it is just ridiculous, that I just cannot run my own programs anymore. = ) Oh that good old times, when Windows just worked... = )

And they where always reported as a virus. Even if it wasn't.

Glad you enjoyed it!

God, I've been playing this game for quite a while, eradicating these pests time and time again...

Was anyone actually able to land on the Spemin home world in Starflight 2 and egg nuke it? I do have fond memories in Starflight 1 of landing on the religious fanatic fish people’s home world and activating an egg on it and destroying it.

Glad you like them!

Thanks (:

Thanks for the kind words, glad you're enjoying them as much as I am making them (:

that might be a sign to clean your subscriptions.

@@98danielrayCertainly needs a clean for sure. Decades old subs on here still. Sometimes I hold hope for some youtubers, but it's been a bit dry. RU-vid's main page and suggestions sucks a** which doesn't help finding anyone new.

Thanks!

Thanks for the kind words but I had no real experience before YT. Just been figuring it out as I go along and trying to make each video better than the last one

Holy cow! Mine too. Mine too…

Please feel free to suggest things that are broken, I make a note of all suggestions (:

​@@nathanbaggs Thank you for responding! Right now I'm not playing any notably crashy games at the moment, I get reminded of the rather big YT channel, MandaloreGaming, where he sometimes plays niche retro titles, and very early on in the video complains how much of a pain was to run it (especially games that never had a GOG release), and even when he does, it's with some form of compromise on his side He did that with his Sacrifice video (in this game he mentioned his game kept randomly reseting his Texture quality setting to low at re-launch), as well as Myth 1 (and 2) video (various issues), Ring (had many "mystery" issues while trying to run it, unfortunately didn't elaborate on that), Warhammer 40K Fire Warrior (audio crackling with reverb on forced him to disable it completely), and probably more. Ross from Accursed Farms channel also plays a lot of them, and often stumbles upon small but annoiying issues like that, thought I don't have any examples at hand. Feel free to look, if you wish :) Cheers!

This game is actually crazy. There's this obscure mechanic regarding artifacts that lets you build gigantic wonders that have absurd secondary effects.

It's on the backlog

@@nathanbaggs Nice! Looking forward to it.

Sometimes it gets it right (: glad you enjoyed

i have always wondered if it's possile to make a game into a dlc of a newer game in the same series,like the last of us addon part,where you play as the girl.

Most (offline) keys worked like this back then. The Windows 95 (OEM and/or Retail) key algorithm was a joke. I could literally do "the math" in my head as it was mostly based of the numbers being added up had to be divisible by 7 (google it). Other applications and games had more complex algorithms, that's what keygens "solved". They ("hackers" or "release groups") reverse-engineered the algorithms and then calculated (or "generated") a valid key.

That’s pretty much it!

I think the thing is, back in the day, keys weren't linked directly to your copy of the game. There was an algorithm for generating random keys, and they simply printed these on each game copy. Maybe many games had the same key?