Porsche 2000 Update: Down

[ViperInc]

hi..

just trying to update now, porsche just says checking for update, doesnt seem to find any, then goes to the logon screen.
enter id and password , host runnign different version...

wont seem to update. now i hav found 2 packs on the net which contain all the updated stuff, except the .exes are the hacked version with the cd-check removed.

even though i hav the original version, i'd feel better having the proper exe. so if anyone has version 3.5 porsche.exe could they upload it to a site, or ftp,

ill also uplad the 3.5 pack
its about 1.44mb zipped
which seems abit small after reading poeples posting about the download size...
hmmm..
anyway...

[MATT]

If you get the .exe, you'll need the new porsche.ICD file too... the .icd file is the REAL executable. The porsche.exe file that comes with the game is actually just a program to decrypt the real executable from the .icd ... There's a program out there that can extract the real executable from the .ICD so the CD check would still be there and all, it would just basically completely by-pass the "safe-disc" thing, though. Which means you would be able to use a "burned" copy of your NFS5 CD. Good for making backups.

Anyway, I tried making a patch with all the files that were updated and such by looking at the EA Updater program's log file of the update (it tells you exactly what's been updated, what's been deleted and what's been renamed.. etc) but it didn't work out. I created batch files to do the work (delete, rename and send the new files to where they need to be.. etc) to make it easy for people who wanted to use it, but it still didn't work online. So I then tried to find out the changes that were made for the registry entries and it still didn't work! Very frustrating. I don't know what to tell you. It's doubtful that giving you the real exe and icd would work, though... speaking from experience.