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Cracking Tutorial #18:
CrAcKiNG The Weakest Link -NOCD-
[cracked bY:] sLeEpY¿[FWA/NWA/FTPR8Z] iN 02/2002
[difficulty:] very-beginner
[where:] buy it at the store or borrow from a friend. (this is the ISO)
[tOOLz:] w32dasm, Hiew or hex editor of your choice...

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Bumpin some old sKooL Too Short, "Pimpology". All we want is the money.

This tutorial will probably be a waste of time for most people so I will make it very
very quick on how to show you how to make the weakest link work without the cd in the
drive. This is accomplished by changing 1 byte in the executable. 

Install the game with a full install, movies and all.

First make a deadlisting of the code in game.exe (X:\Program Files\Activision\The 
Weakest Link) where X is your root. Mine i renamed to game.w32 then deadlisted it
in w32dasm.

Now run game.exe and make sure the cd is not in the drive. What do we see but a crap
error message telling us we need the CD.

WARNING
Please ensure the Weakest Link
game CD is in the your CD ROM drive.
[OK]

Sad, not even proper english, like i can talk though. Moving on..

Click the OK button and go back to W32dasm, click on SDR button.
Look for the error message. Double click it.
You should land around here:

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* RReferenced by a (U)nconditional or (C)onditional Jump at Address:
|:0048ED6C(C)
|
:0048EE13 85ED				test ebp, ebp
:0048EE15 741C				je 0048EE33

* Possible StringData Ref from Data Obj ->"Please ensure the Weakest Link"

:0048EE17 68D0094F00			push 004F09D0  <-you land here

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OK it's easy to see what to do here. 

Drop game.exe on HIEW.
:0048EE15 offset 8EE15

Change this:
:0048EE15 741C				je 0048EE33
to this:
:0048EE15 EB1C				jmp 0048EE33

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Save the prog (F9), exit (F10), run game.exe without the cd in the drive.
Hey what do ya know, this game runs without the CD by changing one byte in the program.

Laterz!

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email me if you are bored: sleepy@linuxwaves.com

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