[Colonol Dekker]

I know theres one somewhere, A reg Key, but i cant find it, reason i need it is that i have it installed but my CD's got stored away in my attic/loft, and i cant get at em for a while...  any links pls ppl ?

[Pegasus V]

I think I speak upon the behalf of the entire FreeSpace community when I say, that we do not support this kind of activity towards olition's FreeSpace.

[DragonClaw]

Link? lets see...

Open up attic door, walk up stairs... go to box containing FreeSpace CD Key... take it out, put code in.

easy

[vadar_1]

Well Mr.Lets-rip-off-volition-by-trying-this-lame-ass-attempt-to-obtain-a-key-and-not-buy-fs2

This certainly will not help your hosting requests IMO.

Pherhaps this is more the place you should be at.

edit: by = buy

[Colonol Dekker]

DAMMIT, i bought entire FS1/FS2 compiliation and Red Faction fair and square !!!!!     Seeing as my upstaris landing is 9 foot tall and 40 miles away, i dont see as how i can get at them right now......

And what CODE are you talking about, on a full install it only needs CD verification....  and rip  off for a gAME THAT ONLY COSTS £10 FOR fs1 AND fs2 , I ANT HOMELESS, I bought the game once, why should i buy it again for a CD ??

[demon442]

Do you mean a no-disk patch?

[Colonol Dekker]

Yeah, thats exactly what i meant

[Pegasus V]

We're not saying we don't trust you, we just... um... don't trust you...

[demon442]

Originally posted by Pegasus V
We're not saying we don't trust you, we just... um... don't trust you...

Whats with you people and your admin-instilled fear of gamespy\thq?

[Pegasus V]

Originally posted by demon442
Whats with you people and your admin-instilled fear of gamespy\thq?

Huh? The more sales and money that FS makes, the more chances of a sequel. No matter how remote.

I think I know what the real reason why FS2 didn't do well in sales...

[Vertigo1]

Just do yourself a favor and search for a free CD-ROM emulator.  You see, they're actually legal.

[Tiara]

They even legalized DVD zone remover on the PS2.

[Kazashi]

Would a No-CD patch be viewed in the same light as downloading a rip of the game? To use a No-CD patch you have to have the original CD's to install....though I guess someone could borrow the game from elsewhere, install, patch, and give the CD's back.

The question is, is it actually illegal to use No-CD patches (in general)? They could be seen as circumventing some sort of protection, though it would probably be up to to determine whether patching in this manner is legal or not.

One thing to add - if the source code is freely available, then it's entirely possible to remove CD checks from the code, compile, and release. Is this sort of action expressly prohibited when modifying the source?

To get to the question at hand, yes I know where you can get a No-CD fix from. But I'm not telling you in an open channel until the admins determine the legality of such a discussion.

[Fineus]

...

Whilst anyone could well claim to have bought the CD, that could be rubbish and it could well be an illegal copy as well. As such HLP has traditionally looked down on posting cracks and so on for games and fought against it quite strongly (well, I have if nobody else).

As such, wether the game is bought and legit or not doesn't matter - we have to assume that it's not. As such I don't think you should post links to cracks up here (yes, I know they exist as well).

If anyone does have a link to a crack and wants to help this person then PM or email him - don't discuss it publicly. Thats all

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Thunder
As such HLP has traditionally looked down on posting cracks and so on for games and fought against it quite strongly (well, I have if nobody else).

yeah, you've got it...

not HLP... you...


 yeah, just search on google or astalavista or something

[vyper]

The idea is reasonable, however the objections made are also reasonable. Such is the dangers of game piracy.

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Stealth


yeah, you've got it...

not HLP... you...

You know, I included that for people just like you. Traditionally it was me - and nobody disagreed strongly, we all found that allowing that kind of thing to happen was more trouble than it was worth.

But if it's one more thing you can poke at me for - who cares right?

Wanders off, wondering if he can be bothered to have fun with certain peoples profiles and post counts or not...

[ShadowWolf_IH]

It is more trouble than it's worth.  When they released the no cd patch for the mech3 community, suddenly our numbers swelled in there, and the new people were all friends in real life with some of the veteran players.  you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that 2 + 2 equals horse ****.  You can play mods without the CD, i almost never have mine in anymore.

They put down a combat move with mech4.  it has a nocd patch, but that patch isn't compatible with the 2.5 patch that you need to play it on the zone.  so you have a choice.  Play without cd, or play against live oponents.  Can't have both with mech4.

and if you are wanting to play fs2 over the wire, well only one in 4 needs to have a cd in anyway.

the only thing you can't do is play the campaign.  or the movies.  and once you have beaten the campaign 12 times...it gets old.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by ShadowWolf_IH

the only thing you can't do is play the campaign.  or the movies.  and once you have beaten the campaign 12 times...it gets old.

yeah, i beat the campaign dozens of times...
(FS1 that is)

but FS2 i haven't even beaten once.  I'm on the last mission, (i think) where you have to escort the bastion or something like that

[Solatar]

That's not the last mission, close to it. I won't spill any more.