How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
morriganrant:
Quote from: Deviancy on 2007 October 12, 01:37:12
I understand where you're coming from, really, I do.
But I feel it is important to inform even the lurker of known problems they'll have if they use the available workaround. It isn't my job nor am I required to do so, but I feel it's the nice thing to do.
Yes, because that is exactly what a majority of the people are here ...nice. *sarcasm* People here expect you to take responsibility yourself. This is not a sims exclusive work around. If something like this was exclusive to the sims 2 then there would be more info on it here, but since this works for any game (the no-cd bit) then someone can find that for themselves. It's been said before on the bbs for one, and on the original site that the instructions come from, that if you remove SecuRom then any game with it will not run. We just metion that it will if you don't use the original exe.
If you are going to use a file then you had better learn about it, do you want us to give a class on what a no-cd key is and what it does? That is information that could be found anywhere.
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I mean I know I personally have better things to do then hop on a dozen sims sites in order to find out if one hack will conflict with another hack. I'd rather have had the person who posted the hack inform me of the possible issues their hack will cause.
Yeah but you still have to hop on the site of one creator and the site of the second one. Sometimes even they don't know, sometimes one mod predates the other, other times one mod is bigger and they have no idea about this other random mod, they themselves don't even know to list it. This isn't about hacks, hacks are exclusive to the sims 2. That is information that is pretty exclusive about where you get it, things in this thread certainly are not.
Deviancy:
That's exactly why before I download a hack I read the thread and see if anyone has posted things about it causing an issue. I never entirely trust the person who created the hack, people tend to leave important things out because they're lazy, then they're like, they could have done the research themselves. This is just an excuse to be lazy. If you're go to provide help provide the advantages as well as the disadvantages, don't assume that downloader is going to go and investigate, because chances are they're lazy to. And as always, when offering any pc help always assume each and every person reading the walkthrough are novices, because most online are. It beats getting a ton of posts later from people who need more help because the walkthrough wasn't as simplistic as it could have been.
I think the walkthrough snagged from Toms was pretty damn good, it just left out a few minor things which I covered..
And yes, I will post about what exactly a nocd key does and how it works.
But I'm a good person and I'm going to the happy place when I die ;).. *sarcasm*
morriganrant:
It would be one thing if someone here made the no cd-key, then there would be all this information that you are referring to, but we didn't. If someone is too lazy to find it themselves, when it is easily found then they will get picked on and laughed at here. That seems to be one point you are missing. No one sits around here waiting to be helpful and spoon feed people information that they could have easily located, that is not the MATY way at all. Anything posted here is not going to assume that anyone reading is a novice, that is something I mentioned before, this was for people who already had an idea of what they were doing. The instructions used to be in another thread but that one became too involved and the instructions were beginning to be hard to find for those who wanted it. The people posting here, for the most part, are semi to extremely computer literate. Those instructions were moved here for those people, anyone else was on their own.
Feel free to be as nice as you want, but don't expect other people here to be just as nice. They reserve the right to be as nasty as they want and aren't going to go out of their way if they don't want to.
Deviancy:
Oh I don't expect people to be nice, I was merely explaining to you why I posted the words "bad advice".
This is how you offer help..
http://www.deviancy.ookiespookie.com/doom/
Same thing really.. just has a small disclaimer..
And we'll see about the extremely experienced literate thing..
I'm still new on this lovely board, so we'll see about that. So far I just see a lot of simmers who know their way around the game. That isn't exactly a pc guru, it's just a sim addict. But it would be nice to finally find a Sims community where the members didn't come off like they were formerly on ABC's the View or born with autism. So I'm feeling somewhat optimistic :).
Ambular:
Quote from: Deviancy on 2007 October 12, 04:21:36
And we'll see about the extremely experienced literate thing..
I'm still new on this lovely board, so we'll see about that. So far I just see a lot of simmers who know their way around the game. That isn't exactly a pc guru, it's just a sim addict. But it would be nice to finally find a Sims community where the members didn't come off like they were formerly on ABC's the View or born with autism. So I'm feeling somewhat optimistic :).
* AmberDiceless eyeballs Deviancy.
Can't speak for anybody else, but I've been up to my elbows in Intel machines since 20 MB was a spacious hard drive, Windows was a curiosity and a full meg of addressible RAM was a luxury. I could list my mad computer skillz for you, but I don't know how you define "computer literate" and Pescado would point and laugh at me for being so pathetic compared to him, so I'll just say that I am not intimidated by PC's and Microsoft is not the boss of me. I think it's fair to say I'm not atypical of MATY users in general (not counting the full-time denizens of Retardo Land, which is called that for a reason.)
If you want to see REALLY computer literate, though, check out the subforum called the Bowels of Trogdor. Just don't expect to be allowed to post there unless you can prove you're as tall as Pescado's beefy arm.
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