How to deal with "fiendish games key manager" ?
How to make work a such protected game ?

there is a byte patch out that allows you to use any serial (as long as it's in format x-xxxx-xxxx-xxx), I haven't looked at it, but if you try google, you may find it (probably an outdated version, but you could check the patch & find the ver they used & see how they did it)

Yes when i was starting the art of cracking I was asked by my cousin to crack some rabit shooting game, that used this key mmanager. I came pretty close but it was slightly more advanced back then than i could handle. Could you include the keymanager system on the board please so i can have a look again?

Heh, heh. Why does this sound so familiar to me?

I went over this quite a while back at BlackB's forum with someone - DaKrazySniper I think - (change your name Thrawn? Could've been someone else)

The s/n routine was pretty much standard serial sniffing, lot's of passing to other memory locations.

The only reason I bother dredging this up again (I was sort of ignoring the post is that the keymanager file *was* a little bit different. My memory's hazy, but if you run Regmon on it you'll see it's looking to create a couple of reg entries. If you create those entries it will do something - unpack the keymanager correctly, kick up the reg box, or something like that.

Read the command line help that's given and there's some switches to set as well. Scope out what filemon and regmon tell you and post the results, maybe my memory will come back

Or check out BlackB's discussion forum at
http://beam.to/cracking
the original thread may still be there near the bottom.

Kayaker

i was too lazy to reverse the whole keychecker, so i write a simple patch. check http://ucol.home.lt/cgi-bin/ucol.pl?l_cracks

wtf ?

Change my name? hardly, i very rarly post. I enjoy reading, learning and shutting up more. If you attualy read you dont need to ask

Sorry Thrawn,

I had had a bad experience with this, spending ages publicly and privately trying to help someone learn, when I think all they really wanted from me was the crack.

My mistake.

Regards,
Kayaker

Come to think of it, the nick DaKrazySniper sounds familuar. Maybe he's asked me for cracks in the past sometimes or anoyed us in gcw channel :\