battle for middle earth 2 auto defeat cracked

This post has been edited by brabox: Sep 10 2018, 12:28 PMĪttached to this post are the fixed launchers for BFME1, BFME2 and ROTWK, including an IDA dif file for automated patching and a. Maybe some mod can respond and a patched launcher can be integrated into one of the tutorials on here? I'm sure this will avoid a lot of headaches in the future since you don't need to reinstall the game (or install it at all) anymore. The same principle of patching can be applied to the BFME2 and BFME1 launcher, I just only found out about it though and haven't gotten around to testing that yet. Since the launcher already had a function for retrieving the G4 string from the gi.dat, we simply used that and overwrote the buffer created by MapViewOfFileEx with strcpy(game2datMappedFileBuffer, GUID4).Īnd since I'm probably not supposed to just upload the patched launcher on here without asking anyone, here's a binary diff so you know what we actually did (and can apply the patch yourself):Ībove is the patched version, below untouched. If this decrypted GUID does not match the unencrypted hardcoded or gi.dat entry, it will auto defeat you after 3:30 minutes.Īfter we finally figured this out, it was relatively trivial to patch the launcher for ROTWK to always pass the unencrypted GUID from the gi.dat ('D9151691-DF43-448c-87C2-742C1FC0FAEB' in ROTWK) to the game.dat, no matter what. On startup, the launcher (lotrbfme.exe, lotrbfme2.exe or lotrbfme2ep1.exe) decrypts the contents of the license file using your ergc registry entry and passes that decrypted String to the game.dat via MapViewOfFileEx and PostThreadMessageA. This GUID is hardcoded in the binary for BFME1, and the G4 entry in the gi.dat for BFME2 and ROTWK.Ģ. The BFME1/2/ROTWK installer encrypts a GUID with your ergc Key using Blowfish and writes the contents into the lotrbfme.dat or game2.dat. I sat down with a friend today and finally figured out how to *really* bypass the Auto defeat of doom after 3:30 minutes if the game2.dat or the ergc code in the registry is wrong.ġ.

Battle for middle earth 2 auto defeat cracked