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- SimCity 3000 - CD crack by Static Vengeance - May 24th, 1999
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- The copy protection is a bit involved and hard to track down, so no tutorial. Just the hex edit
- listed plus an optional edit to kill the intro movie. You must copy the music files which adds 118 megs
- to the install. However once you copy the music files and make the edit, you'll have a complete copy of
- the game on your hard drive that is fully playable without the CD rom in the drive. After the install
- you'll have to copy over the required files to your hard drive. To do that:
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- Assumes: "x" is your CD rom drive letter & game installed to defualt of c:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 3000
- Adjust game directory according to where you actually installed the game.
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- COPY: x:\SC3\RES\SOUNDS\MUSIC
- TO : c:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 3000\Game\Sound\
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- COPY: x:\SC3\RES\UI\SHARED\MOVIES
- TO : c:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 3000\Game\Ui\Shared\
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- The actual steps to crack this game are as follows:
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- 1. Install the game
- 2. Copy the "\Music" directory to your hard drive
- 3. Copy the "\Movies" directory to your hard drive
- 4. Make the following edits:
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- Edit sc3.exe
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- Search for: E8 2A 1F 00 00 at offset 16,297
- Change to : B0 01 00 00 00
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- Optional: Kill the intro Movie - Skip step 3!
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- Search for: E8 18 00 00 00 at offset 446,082
- Change to : B0 00 00 00 00
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- If you make both edits and copy the music directory to the correct place, when you start up
- SimCity 3000 you'll go to the game intro logo then right into the game selection screen. Nice and
- neat crack. If you kill the intro and skip step 3, you'll be able to save slightly over 25 megs.
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- SimCity 3000 is now FiX'ed
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- Static Vengeance - FiX
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