Re: Spore Registration Code Generator 154
Keena Wiegert
I purchased a used hard copy of Spore yesterday for my son. Upon trying to install today I realized there is no Registration Key inside the case. Is there a way I can be issued a Registration Key for it? The game was purhcased along side a full hard copy of CREATURE CREATOR which does have it's manual with Registration Key. I could provide the CREATURE CREATOR Registration Key as a reference of association with this copy of "Spore" the full game if that helps? Greatly appreciate help with this, my 8 year old son has been dying for this game for quiet a while and his little heart is breaking. PLEASE HELP! Thanks!
As you mentioned Spore is a used copy, I don't think you will get provided with another key by EA. The code was used by the original owner of the game most likely and if they didn't use it they should provide you with the code.
my spore disappeared from my account , i tried to contact an ea advisor but he said just put all games to display and it will appear but i didnt, i am searching it for days and still you never have an advisor or something that really can do something
Is there any way to get the code re-sent? I'm trying to reinstall my games after a major upgrade and this one game is giving me a headache. Oh, and yes, I have gone round and round and round with trying to find a way to get direct contact, but, frankly, it's like wandering in a maze of twisty passages, all of them alike.
[EDIT] Nevermind. I eventually found my way through the maze and landed on a live chat, but nobody was answering (despite it saying it was less than a five minute wait). I do have the phone number now, though, and I'll call during the week and get them to trace my order. And then I'll copy and save my serial number MYSELF so I never have to do this again.
AND... just as I was about to post this, I logged into Origin again and the Product Code was there! I can assure you that it wasn't there when we started troubleshooting. Oh well, on to the next issue I guess...
This is BS i want my money back you guys ripped me off and i want my money i never recived a registration code and these isnsrtuctions are for windows and i have a Mac. So please give me my money back.
Easier said than done since any serious protection scheme will check values in multiple places and also will derive critical information from the serial key for later use so that when you think you guessed it, the program will crash.
To create a keygen you have to understand the algorithm and write a program to re-do the exact same calculation (I remember an old version of MS Office whose serial had a very simple rule, the sum of the digit should have been a multiple of 7, so writing the keygen was rather trivial).
Some heavily protected application have the code encrypted so that the file can't be disassembled. It is decrypted when loaded into memory but then they refuse to start if they detect that an in-memory debugger has started,
If you know assembler it takes roughly a weekend to learn how to do this. I've done it just some years ago (never released anything though. It was just research for my game-development job. To write a hard to crack key you have to understand how people approach cracking).
Nils's post deals with key generators. For cracks, usually you find a branch point and invert (or remove the condition) the logic. For example, you'll test to see if the software is registered, and the test may return zero if so, and then jump accordingly. You can change the "jump if equals zero (je)" to "jump if not-equals zero (jne)" by modifying a single byte. Or you can write no-operations over various portions of the code that do things that you don't want to do.
There are a few methods used to do this. You can step through the code in a debugger, which does generally require a decent knowledge of assembly. Using that you can get an idea of where in the program copy protection/keygen methods are called. With that, you can use a disassembler like IDA Pro to analyze the code more closely and try to understand what is going on, and how you can bypass it. I've cracked time-limited Betas before by inserting NOOP instructions over the date-check.
It really just comes down to a good understanding of software and a basic understanding of assembly. Hak5 did a two-part series on the first two episodes this season on kind of the basics of reverse engineering and cracking. It's really basic, but it's probably exactly what you're looking for.
A would-be cracker disassembles the program and looks for the "copy protection" bits, specifically for the algorithm that determines if a serial number is valid. From that code, you can often see what pattern of bits is required to unlock the functionality, and then write a generator to create numbers with those patterns.
The serial number you can just extract the algorithm and start throwing "Guesses" at it and look for a positive response. Computers are powerful, usually only takes a little while before it starts spitting out hits.
As for hacking, I used to be able to step through programs at a high level and look for a point where it stopped working. Then you go back to the last "Call" that succeeded and step into it, then repeat. Back then, the copy protection was usually writing to the disk and seeing if a subsequent read succeeded (If so, the copy protection failed because they used to burn part of the floppy with a laser so it couldn't be written to).
I'm sure it's still similar, but they go through a lot of effort to hide the location of the call. Last one I tried I gave up because it kept loading code over the code I was single-stepping through, and I'm sure it's gotten lots more complicated since then.
I wonder why they don't just distribute personalized binaries, where the name of the owner is stored somewhere (encrypted and obfuscated) in the binary or better distributed over the whole binary.. AFAIK Apple is doing this with the Music files from the iTunes store, however there it's far too easy, to remove the name from the files.
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