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[vintagecdromgirl]

um, has anyone ever managed to get the following games to work successfully without a message saying that the CD needs to be inserted? (it always happens, even if you burn the image to a CD after installing the game )
Blue's Clues: Blue Takes You to School

I did find a way to get Dora the Explorer: Animal Adventures to work, thanks to the "cracked" game exe...wish me luck on this lol

[Terje_P]

Blue's Clues: Blue Takes You to School

The game is actually securom protected. No luck with the generic Securom Loader either.

-=[ ProtectionID v0.6.9.0 DECEMBER]=-
(c) 2003-2017 CDKiLLER & TippeX
Build 24/12/17-21:05:42
Ready...
Scanning -> C:\Program Files\Atari\Blues Clues School\BluesCluesSchool\BluesCluesSchool.exe
File Compression State : 0 (Not Compressed)
File Type : 32-Bit Exe (Subsystem : Win GUI / 2), Size : 1961427 (01DEDD3h) Byte(s) | Machine: 0x14C (I386)
Compilation TimeStamp : 0x3F008611 -> Mon 30th Jun 2003 18:48:49 (GMT)
[TimeStamp] 0x3F008611 -> Mon 30th Jun 2003 18:48:49 (GMT) | PE Header | - | Offset: 0x00000908 | VA: 0x00400908 | -
-> File has 56787 (0DDD3h) bytes of appended data starting at offset 01D1000h
[LoadConfig] CodeIntegrity -> Flags 0xA3F0 | Catalog 0x46 (70) | Catalog Offset 0x2000001 | Reserved 0x46A4A0
[LoadConfig] GuardAddressTakenIatEntryTable 0x8000011 | Count 0x46A558 (4629848)
[LoadConfig] GuardLongJumpTargetTable 0x8000001 | Count 0x46A5F8 (4630008)
[LoadConfig] HybridMetadataPointer 0x8000011 | DynamicValueRelocTable 0x46A66C
[LoadConfig] FailFastIndirectProc 0x8000011 | FailFastPointer 0x46C360
[LoadConfig] UnknownZero1 0x8000011
[File Heuristics] -> Flag #1 : 00000000000000001000000000100101 (0x00008025)
[Entrypoint Section Entropy] : 7.74 (section #5) ".vopf " | Size : 0x86000 (548864) byte(s)
[DllCharacteristics] -> Flag : (0x0000) -> NONE
[SectionCount] 9 (0x9) | ImageSize 0x216000 (2187264) byte(s)
[ModuleReport] [IAT] Modules -> mss32.dll | kernel32.dll | winspool.drv | comdlg32.dll | user32.dll | gdi32.dll | winmm.dll | smackw32.dll | version.dll | advapi32.dll
[!] SecuROM Detected - Version 4.84.81
[CompilerDetect] -> Visual C++ 6.0
- Scan Took : 0.235 Second(s) [0000000EBh (235) tick(s)] [566 of 580 scan(s) done]

When I tried it with alcoholsoft the game didnt load after showing accessing the CD icon. To my knowledge Securom requires an MDF/MDS file with the required DPM data to work.

Success:

Got it working in Windows XP when I mounted the game in Alcholsoft 120% Free Edition under XP (VM) and used the below crack.
https://gamecopyworld.eu/games/pc_blues_clues.shtml
https://i.ibb.co/9vpQHLJ/Uten-navn.jpg

It needs both the image mounted and the crack to work properly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSBL4iESG1I

[annoyment]

It needs both the image mounted and the crack to work properly.

Incomplete bypass NoCD

[Terje_P]

This is what I get without the image mounted.
https://i.ibb.co/BGkkcJ0/Uten-navn.jpg

[annoyment]

[vintagecdromgirl]

well, i downloaded your version, but when i start the game, the game doesn't start, and it's even listed in the processes in the task manager
terje_p, oh man, i can't believe it doesn't work for you
but i will download the crack and give it a shot on XP, or maybe even windows 7...wish me luck on this, and it worked on Windows 7

[hfric]

It needs both the image mounted and the crack to work properly.

Incomplete bypass NoCD

more like it reads data from the disc that is missing on the HDD ... many kids games did that since they well are made for PC that are below potato

[hfric]

well, i downloaded your version, but when i start the game, the game doesn't start, and it's even listed in the processes in the task manager
terje_p, oh man, i can't believe it doesn't work for you
but i will download the crack and give it a shot on XP, or maybe even windows 7...wish me luck on this, and it worked on Windows 7

This game also worked here... just get the game , install it , copy the crack and have the CD in the fist drive letter after C: aka "D:" ... since back in the day, games where programmed for PCs to have only 1 CD\DVD drive and 1 HDD , and if the game suddenly sees two HDDs\Media Drive many games just freak out and will not boot at all

[vintagecdromgirl]

This game also worked here... just get the game , install it , copy the crack and have the CD in the fist drive letter after C: aka "D:" ... since back in the day, games where programmed for PCs to have only 1 CD\DVD drive and 1 HDD , and if the game suddenly sees two HDDs\Media Drive many games just freak out and will not boot at all[/quote]

i didn't know that

[hfric]

All games behaved like that till 2006-2008 when Vista came ... same can be said about Multi Core PCs , HDD Space and Ram... till 2010-ish games freaked out if you had too much Free Space (like 900GB since normally you should have only 1GB) , 16GB of ram when PCs back then only had 2GB or Max 4GB , and 24 Cores (or more like todays pcs now have) when normal home Pentium 4 had only 2 or 1 cores .... there is also the GPU ram (its 8\16bit texture support that new cards dropped and now your forced to emulate those features with wrappers) and CPU speed factor

and on top of that you add Drivers , Quick Time , Flash support that new OS dropped hard

and you get why some people are overwhelmed with it and just take the easy way and buy a GOG version ... that just uses Dosbox with Wrappers that you can get for free ...

[vintagecdromgirl]

um, has anyone ever manged to get Tweenies: Messy Time Magic to work for them? it's apparently copy-protected (yeah, a copy-protected BBC Multimedia game), and i don't know if there's a CCD (clone cd) file for it anywhere (https://archive.org/details/tweeniesmes ... cukversion)

[sparklot]

Tweenies: Messy Time Magic
https://www.legendsworld.net/adventure/game/30605

alt: https://archive.org/details/tweeniesmtm
crk: http://www.bwass.org/bucket/messytime_uk.rar (non-DVD game)

Found UK target - tested and works.

[vintagecdromgirl]

well thanks for that, any other cracks on there? (there's some BBC games that have copy-protection)

[sparklot]

Located 3 more from BBC

Bill & Ben: Flowerpot Fun! (2001)
https://www.legendsworld.net/adventure/game/15551

alt: https://archive.org/details/billandben
crk: http://www.bwass.org/bucket/bb.rar

Engie Benjy: Time For Teamwork (2003)
https://www.legendsworld.net/adventure/game/28519

alt: https://archive.org/details/engie-benjy
crk: http://www.bwass.org/bucket/engie.rar

Rubbadubbers (2004)
https://www.legendsworld.net/adventure/game/28517

crk: http://www.bwass.org/bucket/rubba.rar

I think "Yoho Ahoy" and "Little Robots: Making Friends" are Securom 4 protected also

[Terje_P]

You could try with the generic loader, or does that only work with newer titles?