Windows XP wont let up!

[Captain_Dude]

Bah... I've been spending the last few weeks writing a wee application*cough*keygen*cough* for Final Fantasy XI (*note: I will NOT, I repeat NOT send you any cracks, warez, iso, burnt copies of games, and this includes FFXI, so could you kindly not PM me with "PLZ PLZ PLZ I WANNA PLAY FFXI!!! I GIVE YOU DOLLAR!" Find your own sub legal material dammir!).

Now, I was never all that experianced with cracking programs... And hell, one guy, with little knoweledge of hacking and programing, trying to do something this big, it's a little much. But dammit, I wanna do this so that I can make some people happy. So I set off to do it.

First thing I do is (this makes me sound like such a n00b) go read some tutorials. So I read up on the subject, and after some studying, I decided to crack some easier programs to get the feel for doing this. Well, first thing I notice is that SoftICE will not start(open the little startup .bat, hit ctrl+d, nothing happens). So I spend a while searching the net for my problem, turns out Windows XP needs some patching to work right. I apply the patch. Now, Windows Crashes when I start SoftICE... I fix that by having SoftICE boot before windows. Now, I spend hours trying to figure out WHY exactly I can breakpoint on hmemcpy... I download new dlls, I download patches, and bug-fixes, and all kindsa other garbage... Still no use.

So I search forums, and what do I discover??? Windows XP, the little fucker, has no hmemcpy API. Now, XP has pushed me and pushed me, and kicked me when I'm down. So, I decide, time to uninstall this prick, and get back 98... BUT, since XP is a fresh install, the only way that I can find at the moment, is backing up all my data and reformatting. Not gonna happen!

So, I'm stuck with having to find similar APIs to use in place of hmemcpy to breakpoint on...(Thank god for rtlmovememory) I hope Bill Gates dies a slow and painful death, and I intend to go pound on the wall for the next 40 to 50 minutes. Good day ladies and gentlemen...

D'oh, I just realized that I missed half of Cheers... Curses.

*Stomps off angrily*

EDIT: And GARG! DC++ is giving me weird errors. *Kicks computer and stomps off again*

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Captain_Dude on 2003-07-02 01:50 ]</font>

[Kasera]

Uh-waaah, you can't get and give something for free. Let the world end now.

Get a MAC.

BTW I'm bi.

[Kid_Icarus]

I always get a kick out of PSOW peeps (and other anti MS morons) being so die hard linux because you know 99% of them dont use it.

I like this quote because the person saying it is a fucking moron.

Did I miss a Linux thread or two? Or has this person been gone so long they're out of touch?

Oh yeah that's what happens when you get banned. You get stupid and whine about PSOW.

n_n/ > Banned people.

[War_Child]

If you weren't trying to do something illegal, you wouldn't be having these problems ^____^

<3 XP

[Droxitr]

So how's FFXI?

[Captain_Dude]

On 2003-07-02 21:39, Droxitr wrote:
So how's FFXI?



heehee haven't played it yet...

And I'm not trying to do something horrible and wrong. Yer still gonna have to pay to play online, I'm just trying to save people the cost of importing this game.

Hate me if you want, but I don't like seeing people billions of people on various p2p filesharing programs begging for a CD-key. Gotta give the people what they want, and if they want a way to play FFXI without importing, so be it!

I hardly think I'm taking any money out of squares pocket. The games got like a 17 dollar a month fee to play. So people who think I'm an evil bastard... Well, you're probably right, but I'm an evil bastard who doesn't believe in having to pay a load of money just to import a game that shouldn't have to take a gottdamm year to prep for the US release!

[Kid_Icarus]

On 2003-07-03 00:29, Captain_Dude wrote:
And I'm not trying to do something horrible and wrong.


Man sounds like Barubary when he released cheat codes for PSO.

Piracy is never wrong n_nv

[Wewt]

Am I confused, or are you crazy?

You're providing CD keys for pirate copies of the game, correct? http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif

[hollowtip]

How do you expect to crack CD Key protection for FFXI when you're just really starting to get in this facet of hacking?

[Kasera]

On 2003-07-03 08:21, hollowtip wrote:
How do you expect to crack CD Key protection for FFXI when you're just really starting to get in this facet of hacking?



Because he's just that evil. Hope he doesn't get me.

[eRUPT]

Ok uhm, your not giving it out, but you are talking about SoftICE and stuff so I am locking this, if you have a problem PM me and I'll let you know further why this is inappropriate.