Double click on it to open up a new Search and Replace Patch window.ĩ. You’ll notice that will appear in the Patch Script window. Right click on an empty space in dUP2, hover on Add and select. It is advisable to tick the “Run patch with administrator rights” checkbox because most of the time you’ll need to run the patch from the Program Files directory and it will fail to patch if you do not run it as admin.Ħ. Or you can just click the Save button to continue. It is optional to fill up the information in the Patch Info window so that the GUI of the patcher will contain the text rather than blank. Click on Project menubar and select New.ĥ. Download dUP2, extract the RAR file with an archiver and run dup2.exe.Ĥ. Then search and use ViceVersa.Pro.2.5. to patch the program, with the “Make Backup” checkbox ticked.ģ.
First you will need to search, download and install the older version of ViceVersa Pro v2.5 build 2512.Ģ.
Here is how to detect which bytes are being changed by the patcher and how to re-create a new patcher that could work for the latest version.ġ. It is possible that the software protection isn’t updated to prevent the patcher from working, but the patcher did not work with the latest version because the program was recompiled, moving the location of the bytes that the patcher supposed to change and failing the CRC32 check.
The patcher reports “wrong filesize or already patched!” For example, an offset patcher for a program called ViceVersa Pro v2.5 build 251 2 released on 3 July 2013 by Nemo from team SnD will not work for the current version 2.5 build 251 3 (notice the difference in the build number). Unfortunately it is nearly impossible to have someone to teach or coach you on how to crack programs other than learning it yourself from cracking tutorials that can be found in YouTube.īefore checking out the advanced cracking tutorials, we can show you a very basic and logical method on how to crack programs yourself based on an old patch that does not work with the latest version. Only if you are able to think out of the box and figure out how to bypass the software protection yourself, then you consider yourself as a software cracker.
Knowing how to crack a program using an available ready made patch, keygenerator or cracked files does not earn yourself the title “software cracker”. The cracks that are being released to the public are a proof of concept for a specific version and they don’t normally re-crack it again when a new version of the program is released. One may wonder the reason for doing this but most of the time it is not for monetary gain but as a challenge to know how “it works” and to gain more knowledge through unpacking, debugging and analyzing the program. Many people will think that they are unethical because they are defeating the software licensing system to illegally reset a trial software (shareware) or turn it into an fully functional program without having to purchase the license. Software cracking groups have been around for a long time.