EA Won't Sell This Game - So I Hacked It

Let's hack The Sims 2

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[accr]

Most definitely the most impressive show of skill yet. Extremely interesting to see all the anti re techniques used!

[rswoodford]

Watching you debug at such a low level puts me in a calm meditative state.
I thoroughly enjoy your practical application of decompiling and debugging to old Windows games. It provides for great storytelling. Many thanks.

[Callofdootie]

I don’t know 80% of what you are doing but I like the logical approach you take to solve the issue.

[TheStevenWhiting]

Process Monitor itself has the 64bit version inside it. If you run the 32bit and it sees you're on 64bit, it unpacks that and runs it.

And here's me dreaming of being able to code my own cracks. Looking at this, jesus! That would never happen.

Once you're done, watch the AV software come along and delete your exe as malware as they do with most cracks and keygens even when they have no infections.

[aliasunknown]

Best game in the series and they bury it like it never existed.

It's so nice to see someone breaking through these measurements.

[Dinkleberg]

Should be called: So I tried to hack it

[orebmnu]

They were real hush hush when they were giving away the the sims 2 complete collection away for free, on origins if you had bought at least the sims 2 base game.
I didn't know about it till months after it was over, and was told asking and kinda begging for it still worked.

[Ravo]

Ha! An EA game.. i knew it because of the temporary binary file. 🤪

[martinmartinpl]

I'm interested in one thing: from my very limited experience, I know that "patches", cracks and other such tools can trigger anti-virus software because they mess with the original binaries, inject their own data into memory, etc. How come this original executable doesn't bother antivirus? From my perspective, all this obfuscation and shifting code in the libraries looks very much like the code usually found in patches.

[orebmnu]

No Burglars in The Sims 4 it's not even a expansion Pack game pack stuff pack kit no on off option for it.

[oussama]

are you not interested in using cheat engine to bypass these? could be an alternative if the debugger didn't help
great video as usual!

[dylanchampion]

is this a reupload i swear i have seen this before