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Originally Posted by dyn!o
Nice shot.
Every Starforce protected soft contains protect.dll. Last months Starforce freaks are trying to mess a little by changing its name (for instance: protect.dll in Xpand Rally is named xpandrally.bin). I don't know why and I don't know what do they count for.
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They've been doing that forever. It's up to the developer to decide what to rename it to. The dll itself still reports itself as 'protect.dll' in its export table.
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Originally Posted by dyn!o
Niom: Let's see what I wrote:
"...I have loaded original Xpand Rally binaries and it still works..."
I tried to say that the original files (chromeengine2.dll and xpandrally.exe) don't have to be cracked because the modification of xpandrally.bin (protect.dll) was enough.
Drivers are the only common Starforce 3 components? For sure, but don't miss protect.dll.
Regards.
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Then the crack is not as interesting
(even though it is still impressive) protect.dll changes from game to game - the same effort that was put into this particular game will have to be repeated on others. A driver crack, if it existed, would activate all other games too... which is probably why niom got interested
