After installing HALO PC with a legit CDKEY, I popped up the handy dandy windows regedit program and made my CDKEY "dfgdf" (I was hitting random keys here, people!)
To my utter surprise, the program opened fine, and even let me play online! Is this some sort of weird jedi mind trick Microsoft is playing, or is this just a creative method to playing w/out a valid product number?
Does Halo require a valid key ONLY for setup, and then disregards the pretty numbers? I just don't know!
Here, I uploaded an image here:
http://e.1asphost.com/Kujila/gibberhalo.JPG
(A duplicate 'sister' post can be found here.)
~Kujila
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 Nov 17 2003, 6:21 pm
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Hah, I like it. I can't believe Microsoft would do something like that on purpose... so I'm just going to assume it was an accident and laugh at them. Mwahahaha. Ha. Ahahaha. =D
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Well, I don't think Age of Empires II checks CD-KEYS during its online play, either. I could be wrong, though.
*shrugs* Maybe they just have enough money anyways, so if somebody pumps out a dozen copies for his or her friends, it doesn't really phase them financially as it would a smaller game corp.... Bah! Who knows? ~Kujila | |
Well, I don't know if a huge corp. like MS would just "not bother," as you said, but I'm sure they didn't just "forget,"...
Then again,... who knows? :-P ~Kujila | |
We're talking about a world where a 6 kajillion dollar CD copy protection initiative came up with anti-copying software that can be foiled by disabling autorun with a shift key.
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Read all about it... the shift heard round the world:
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,60780,00.html I tell ya, the shift these kids try to get away with... [EDIT] What's funny and scary about the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) is that it tries to make it a crime to circumvent copy protection programs... even to the point of testing for an obvious oversight... and there's so what's to stop a record company or other media entity from releasing a disk with horribly flawed protection (or none at all) and sue everyone who "circumvents" it? | |
Tsk tsk, those shifty characters.
I say sue the keyboard manufacturers for producing and selling the circumventation devices! =D | |
Why stop at the keyboard manufacturers? They clearly didn't work alone... the CEO of SunnComm claims that the shift key's function relative to his company's software is an intentional "design feature." I say we throw the book at him!
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How to play halo with a fake cd key ;)
Crack it with a public server fix, then go here, http://www.halomp.com/tracker/ | |
"(as posted at halo.liquidm3dia.com)
Your key isn't stored in the registry, but your PID is. Your PID is based on your key... it was made during installation. When you join servers, they are checking the PID, not your key. So, if someone (I'll have to look at it later) could make a key --> PID converter, then presto, a key changer. Otherwise, you'll need a reinstall or find the PID of the key (who know's, PID's may be computer specific). If you want to make a CD key changer, someone will have to break the "encryption" per se. So, most likely, it isn't the key being being banned at all, just there being no PID in the registry (even if you use a good key with the hacked Halo) Reason: the hacked Halo doesn't care what you give as a CD key, cause it never records it (as I understand) " | |
I downloaded the game and didn't even enter a CD-key and the game installed and plays online fine. It's one of my new favorite games. I'm Sticky_Cron if anyone see's me on there.
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It would make sense, all the good games get cracked eventually, why waste time putting it in?