Help, my game asploded!
miros:
Quote from: ElfPuddle on 2007 April 20, 20:14:41
Why should sara have to pay for it at all? She already did.
It's like $5 to pay for the plastic CD, some sloping forehead intern to put the CD in an envelope and type your address on a mailing label, and postage. Heck of a lot cheaper than buying a new copy (unless she can persuade the tech to fork over for that too (when pigs fly)) and safer than using a cracked copy.
Quote from: syberspunk on 2007 April 20, 20:22:04
I'm weary about replacing the .exe with some cracked one. *shrugs*
Me too. I'd back up my exe, try the crack, and get the new CD from Maxis ASAP.
sara_dippity:
Actually my plan for replacing the cd is something along the lines of "My mom gave me this game last weekend and I don't have the receipt 'cause she didn't give it to me, but look, there's only one cd in it!"
Say, syber, can you say that again, in a dummies version? Aspifically this: You could then use ASR or sd4hider.
Zazazu:
Quote from: LordBanxter on 2007 April 20, 20:17:25
Quote from: miros on 2007 April 20, 20:08:23
If you registered your software, Maxis will send you a new CD for cheap.
Yes, they will, actually, which rather surprised me when I lost my Uni discs, luckily, I had registered it as soon as I installed it, so the code was retrievable. For people that got lazy and started using EALink however (such as myself), no amount of red tape or hoop jumping can convince them to send you the discs for any reason. Kept telling me that I'd need to go out and purchase the physical software from a retailer or order from the EAstore, so I've been looking for a bypass for this for a while now.
Ugh, I know. So far so good, my cable internet very rarely goes out...but when it does, it usually takes a whole 24 hours for them to fix it. And downloading off EAlink is the only way for me to get the game within the release week. Yup, I'm one of those addicted whores who needs it right now. For some freakish reason, no place in Chicago or Evanston that's easy for my carless self to get to ever has it on time. Will unplug my internet tonight and try the .exe to see if it works for ya. You never know.
mistymage:
Quote from: syberspunk on 2007 April 20, 20:22:04
I'm weary about replacing the .exe with some cracked one. *shrugs*
You're tired about replacing the .exe with a crack? I think you meant wary.. or perhaps leery :D
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Personally, I would check out the MATY FAQ. I think there are some decent instructions there. Since you've already installed Seasons, you really just need to obtain a copy of the ISO/image, then use daemontools to mount it. You could then use ASR or sd4hider. daemontools will fool your computer into thinking that there is a cd drive (the mounted image acts like a virtual drive) and your game should run as normal.
Ste
I'm using that crack .. and my game seems to load a zillion times faster! I'm guessing my D: is getting a bit weak after 4 years of hard usage. I really like not having to dig out my disc, wipe off the fingerprints belonging to whichever child put it away.. and then grrr about any scratches that might have shown up since I last cleaned it.
KatEnigma:
They got me to go with EALink for GLS, before I knew that it wasn't as painless as it originally was for the HP. I was not about to put up with the connection crap- or having to just allow another program to run- so I used the cracked exe. I even then UNINSTALLED the damn link program, and it worked fine.
The only real problem with using the exe's are that finding the updated one after a patch is pretty impossible. :-\ I need to go back and check to see if the Seasons patch really did fix anything, because I've had it with it taking 3+ tries to start Seasons when I want to play. (Damn safedisc!)
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