09.05.2005, 12:32:08
(This post was last modified: 09.05.2005, 12:39:47 by Bobingabout.)
aparantly, its also to speed teh game up while loading. if its the version i'm thinking of, but if he can do things like that, why didn't he have a go at doing what PD is doing? i know blade added a third mission button, but other than that, (and noCD cracks, and optimisation) nobody has tried patching/hacking the game.
@guest
ok, what PD is doing is against the EULA, but the main purpose of the EULA is to prevent illigal copies floating around. if this helps force people using illigal copies to go out and buy a game, just so they can use the patch, then its doing westwood/EA a favour.
all exe modifications, and even mods, are breaches of the EULA, but the EULA was written to prevent Piracy. modding isn't piracy, i supose thats why even though its a direct breach of the EULA WW didn't mind, infact i remember an official story writing compatition once where the prize was to have a mod made of your story. so, i supose WW wouldn't mind PDs patch. although, its EA we've got to worry about now, the might not be as nice about it...
anyway, i hope we leave the topic of Cracks, Piracy, and EULAs out of this topic again for a while...
oh, and i'm witrh PD on the "Using CDs Sucks" thing. for years i used a YR CD image on my desktop computer, saves a lot of diskswappings. however, now that i got my laptop, I've got a hard drive 1/3 of what i'm used to. so theres simply no room for CD images. if i could find a YR noCD crack, I'd use it. simply because using CDs sucks. infact, CDs suck so bad that i need 3 disks to play sims unleashed. my origial UL disk 1 is nackered. but i still need to play the game from it, just can't install, so i've got a copy of disk 1 to install from, aswell as disk 2, plus the original disk 1 to play from. that is just so annoying...
@guest
ok, what PD is doing is against the EULA, but the main purpose of the EULA is to prevent illigal copies floating around. if this helps force people using illigal copies to go out and buy a game, just so they can use the patch, then its doing westwood/EA a favour.
all exe modifications, and even mods, are breaches of the EULA, but the EULA was written to prevent Piracy. modding isn't piracy, i supose thats why even though its a direct breach of the EULA WW didn't mind, infact i remember an official story writing compatition once where the prize was to have a mod made of your story. so, i supose WW wouldn't mind PDs patch. although, its EA we've got to worry about now, the might not be as nice about it...
anyway, i hope we leave the topic of Cracks, Piracy, and EULAs out of this topic again for a while...
oh, and i'm witrh PD on the "Using CDs Sucks" thing. for years i used a YR CD image on my desktop computer, saves a lot of diskswappings. however, now that i got my laptop, I've got a hard drive 1/3 of what i'm used to. so theres simply no room for CD images. if i could find a YR noCD crack, I'd use it. simply because using CDs sucks. infact, CDs suck so bad that i need 3 disks to play sims unleashed. my origial UL disk 1 is nackered. but i still need to play the game from it, just can't install, so i've got a copy of disk 1 to install from, aswell as disk 2, plus the original disk 1 to play from. that is just so annoying...