Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena - RELEASE topic
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Newty182




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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 00:19    Post subject:
Yondaime wrote:
Newty182 wrote:
stemot wrote:
Somebody should report this to the Atari Community forums to see if they'll make good on their word of the DRM being to avoid early piracy. Now it's been cracked they can release that clean .exe they promised us......Yeah right. Very Happy


http://forums.eu.atari.com/showthread.php?t=90929


lol, they removed your thread? Way to treat a customer.


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You have been banned for the following reason:
discussion of game crack

Date the ban will be lifted: 17-05-2009, 23:00


Thats crap. I bought the game and i only asked if they would reconsider the activation limits, due to the game being cracked.


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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 00:25    Post subject:
Yondaime wrote:
Newty182 wrote:
stemot wrote:
Somebody should report this to the Atari Community forums to see if they'll make good on their word of the DRM being to avoid early piracy. Now it's been cracked they can release that clean .exe they promised us......Yeah right. Very Happy


http://forums.eu.atari.com/showthread.php?t=90929


lol, they removed your thread? Way to treat a customer.

I was banned from Ataris forum a good while ago as the moderator considered the word "crap" bad language, not joking

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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 00:31    Post subject:
I can´t climb here. WTF Confused



edit: nvm, i had to press "e", lol.


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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 00:33    Post subject:
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AKofC




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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 00:33    Post subject:
Man, I've been playing between both scenarios. lol

The combat is more stealth based though, so I find having to duke it out with opponents aware of me to be quite annoying with their blocking. >___>


Also why are a lot of the posters in the previous page banned?


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cnZ
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 00:34    Post subject:
yoyoxp wrote:
I was banned from Ataris forum a good while ago as the moderator considered the word "crap" bad language, not joking

Nick


kinda hypocritical as the game is full of shit language Laughing

anyways 3drealms forum is teh humane forum as devs swear a lot themselves. like home Wink


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yoyoxp




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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 00:50    Post subject:
cnZ wrote:
yoyoxp wrote:
I was banned from Ataris forum a good while ago as the moderator considered the word "crap" bad language, not joking

Nick


kinda hypocritical as the game is full of shit language Laughing

anyways 3drealms forum is teh humane forum as devs swear a lot themselves. like home Wink

Ironically I wanted to buy Shocked a Atari game, Driver 3 would you belive, Basicly I said I've seen crap reviews of this game, but some videos I've seen make the game look ok Rolling Eyes , and would it run ok on my system specs at the time, way to loose a customer Laughing Laughing , in the end, delighted I downloaded the crap game and saw why the reviews were true Smile

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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 00:54    Post subject:
RenaFuse wrote:
so i had a feeling about this Smile the vca.bin does more then just match hardware it integrates into the game for the hardware and performance and now you guys are using a vca.bin file that wasn't created on your PC with different HW specs and its causing the game to fail...


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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 01:02    Post subject:
Fail how? it´s working great for me.


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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 01:02    Post subject:
To all who were banned (didn't want this to happen), this is precisely why I didn't want this in the GAMEPLAY topic:

Newty182 wrote:
RenaFuse wrote:
so i had a feeling about this Smile the vca.bin does more then just match hardware it integrates into the game for the hardware and performance and now you guys are using a vca.bin file that wasn't created on your PC with different HW specs and its causing the game to fail...

What will happen now with this thread, is probably the same as the previous one: Be filled with BS and get locked and/or deleted.
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Newty182




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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 01:03    Post subject:
Pey wrote:
Fail how? it´s working great for me.


Just quoting what was said. Some ppl are having problems but that could be non-crack related.

@ iNatan

But a crack has been released. Are you saying we should ask a mod to unlock the old topic so we can post in there?


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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 01:07    Post subject:
No. This entire thread was in the gameplay topic, which was, as stated on that thread's fist post, that it is only for gameplay. Someone moved all the posts about crack to this thread and banned everyone involved. I was just explaining my reasons for not wanting it there and reporting the violating posts. Smile
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 01:24    Post subject:
iNatan wrote:
To all who were banned (didn't want this to happen), this is precisely why I didn't want this in the GAMEPLAY topic:


They were banned because you reported it, what are you trying to say, that you're sry Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 01:27    Post subject:
Sure, why not. I only wanted the posts removed. Very Happy Now can we drop it? Those that I like from the banned list know I didn't mean for it to happen, while those that I don't like, I don't care about them.
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 01:31    Post subject:
You should rename the thread since a working crack was out. You know the moderation is kinda slow and crack spreading is FAST Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 01:33    Post subject:
Ok. I do think then the other topic needs to be re-opened as i think there will be a lot more talk in there about the crack for the time being than talking about gameplay.


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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 01:40    Post subject:
Newty182 wrote:
Ok. I do think then the other topic needs to be re-opened as i think there will be a lot more talk in there about the crack for the time being than talking about gameplay.

This is now the "release" topic. I guess posts got split to this new thread.
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 01:50    Post subject:
sabin1981 wrote:
Darkc0der; 1
"Scene" (lol) and the rest of the world; 0



U can also see that from a different point of view , why waste weeks of free time to just crack 1 game , at least thats how I would see it.

Still nice that he cracked it tho but I can understand groups for not putting to much effort in cracking stuff since they do it in there own free time.
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 02:05    Post subject:
Many kudos if it works 100%, but it's wrong to compare this to scene releases. This is not a true crack, but a workaround, that's why the tages drivers are still required and the activation file is still needed.

No need for much arguing on this though.

EDIT: Darkcoder has cleanly shit over the scene when RLD fucked up their late Bioshock crack ... 2 times. Not even their crackfix worked correctly Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 03:16    Post subject:
This darkc0der guy is almost a god. First Bioshock, then Mass effect and now AoDA.
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 03:19    Post subject:
Don't forget AitD, Atari's previous stint. Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 03:57    Post subject:
And dead space, crysis warhead, bionic commando rearmed...

Anyway... awesome game, great gameplay mechanics. Don´t know why it got so low scores on reviews. Oh wait... only gayspot gave it 7



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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 04:45    Post subject:
I hope someone could help me out with this...

I patched game to 1.1...no probs. I ran game (to get tages folder)...no prob. I put the serial and vca.bin in the program data/tages folder.

I then put the patch.exe in the system 32 folder.

I ran the patch (didn't work at first)...but finally got it to say "patch complete"

then when I tried to run the launcher.exe...I got the serial screen. I put in the one from the nfo...but that where I am stuck. If I chose activate by internet...does not work. If I chose no internet connection...won't let the game and closes.

What am I doing wrong? I am sure its something small..but I can't figure it out.

Thanks in advance.

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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 04:52    Post subject:
sabin1981 wrote:

1. Patch the game with 1.1. You don't have to put that patch anywhere, just download it and run it.
2. Extract crack/etc archive and put the patch.exe inside the same folder as DarkAthena.exe (System\Win32_x86) - run it. Click "patch"
3. Extract VCA.bin and key.txt into "ProgramData\Tages\100663362" If you're on Vista, it's C:\ProgramData\TAGES\100663362. If you can't see ProgramData, you need to unhide "hidden files and folders"

Run the game.

These instructions might help. I think the patch didn't patch anything even though it says it did.
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 04:53    Post subject:
I will try again...but when you run the game (after the patch)...do you have to put in the serial? Does that screen come up?

If you do...what then? do you select internet connection or not?
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 04:59    Post subject:
I think your right...this is from the patch. Weird thing is that it wouldn't run unless I chose to run it as administrator.

What am I doing wrong? I put the files in the tages folder...patched game 1.1....man I confused.

---START PATCHING---

[OFFSET PATCH]
loading file:
C:\Program Files\Atari\The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena\System\Win32_x86\dvm.dll
Filesize OK!
CRC32 check failed!
nothing patched!
...done!

[OFFSET PATCH]
loading file:
C:\Program Files\Atari\The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena\System\Win32_x86\TagesClient.dat
Wrong filesize or already patched!
nothing patched!
...done!

---PATCHING DONE---

When I try to run the patch without choosing as Administrator...I get this error:

Cannot access the file. Maybe its in use.
Please close the file before patching.
Try to access the file again?

I don't know what file to close before patching...noting is open but the win32.x86 folder.
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 05:27    Post subject:
It says the CRC32 check failed. This means you have the wrong files. Are you sure you applied the 1.1 patch correctly ?
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Nittany




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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 05:34    Post subject:
It says "Chronicles of Riddick" successfully patched...or something like that. No errors at all.

Any reason why I can't run the patch without being in administrator mode? It won't let me run it normally...keep getting that file in use error.

bummer.
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 05:37    Post subject:
It's due to motherfucking Vista. Didn't want to say it, but there you go. That fucking UAC has you by the balls, you can disable it easily with a few clicks and a restart, google for "disable UAC" or something.
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th May 2009 05:46    Post subject:
I think you can disable it via Control Panel.

I disabled it bout a year ago, thats when I installed Vista on dual boot with XP.
Haven't touched it since then.

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