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> How Infinity games recognize its CDs, My research in this matter
drake127
post Jun 4 2005, 09:03 PM
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First I have to say what games we are talking about: Baldur's Gate series, Icewind Dale series and Planescape Torment.

These games contain no CD protection within the meaning of reducing possibility of illegal copying of CDs. CDs can (in technical meaning) be copied without problem.

But when game starts it requires inserted CD. I am not sure if it should be protection or game only tries to check if there is CD in drive because possible loading files from this CD.

Game checks presence of CD in moment so it cannot check all CD content but only its part - only concrete files. And I found them. Game does not check content of these files but only their presence at least in case of BG series and PST. In Icewind Dale series content of these files is ASCII number of that CD and size of this file is 1 byte so I did not concern about it).
  • Baldur's Gate: /CD1/MOVIES/MOVIES.BIF
  • Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast: /CD6/MOVIES/MOVIECD6.BIF
  • Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn: /CD2/DATA/MOVHD0.BIF
  • Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal: /CD5/DATA/AREA000B.BIF
  • Icewind Dale: /CD2/DATA/IWDCD.2
  • Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter: /CD3/DATA/IWDCD.3
  • Icewind Dale II: /CD2/DATA/IWD2CD.2
  • Planescape Torment (4 CD): /CD2/GENMOVA.BIF
  • Planescape Torment (2 CD): /CD2/TORMENT.CD
If you decide to use this research, you will have to have full install of the game.

Legal note:
Creating CD with these files (better: with these filenames) is very easy and CD can be very small (no larger than 3.5" floppy) but in some countries it may be illegal because it bypasses CD protection (but as I said above, I am not sure if it is CD protection). So be aware of this - it can be illegal!

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Vlad
post Aug 15 2005, 02:01 PM
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The CD protection is inside BGMAIN.EXE. You may use NoCD.exe crack program to patch your BGMAIN.EXE if you wish. This crack is available all over the web and I can share it with you. The same is about other IE games.

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drake127   How Infinity games recognize its CDs   Jun 4 2005, 09:03 PM
Avenger_teambg   NULL   Jul 23 2005, 06:49 PM
Vlad   NULL   Aug 15 2005, 02:01 PM
drake127   NULL   Aug 18 2005, 12:26 PM
Vlasák   NULL   Aug 22 2005, 09:52 AM
drake127   I added file for 2 CD version of PST.   Nov 20 2005, 11:58 AM
Vlad   Well, it patches several bytes inside BGMAIN.EXE...   Nov 20 2005, 12:09 PM
drake127   In these cases maybe not but I thought it more g...   Nov 20 2005, 01:06 PM
ronin69hof   Well, it patches several bytes inside BGMAIN.EXE...   Nov 20 2005, 01:52 PM
Avenger_teambg   Well, i don't mind xp patching or such, but i ...   Nov 22 2005, 11:08 AM
Vlad   No, I don't know and I don't want to arg...   Nov 23 2005, 09:24 AM
drake127   Vlad, are we talking concretely (BG, ...) or gener...   Nov 23 2005, 10:06 AM
Lord Fausto   MMM i dont understand so much xD but... my proble...   Dec 27 2005, 05:11 PM
drake127   It won't help you. You still have to have CD6...   Dec 27 2005, 06:19 PM

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