decryption can be bypassed.


i will have to stop on that, maybe was wrong from me to inform people i managed to install it i was just so exited didnt know i will cause so much panic i thought other will have figured it out allready!


this is the 2only time i use my skills to crack something like a game, usually i do the opposite in rl programming job.

and as SilentDeath said i did this because was so fun and interesting!

This is the type of game that i will buy anyways. Hopefully i will
have the patience to wait until the 27th.

Yes. I love Starcraft. I have the collectors ed Paid in full already at my local gamestop!

I personally have managed to bypass the date check but the installer won't open the MPQE file.

Yeah, I've edited the second installer in temp, but it keeps showing error 108 on opening installer ui 2.mpqe. Also I edited etc/hosts to redirect eu.battle.net and something like dist.blizzard.edgesuite.com to localhost. Next, I've run apache and supplied the installer with sc2-authenticationcode-enGB.txt with different date than MSG:07/27/2010 but no luck. Any hints?

Edit: Vernam or others: what sc2-authenticaioncode-enGB.txt should contain?

So... this includes the single player?! :O

@darkreign
in my C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file:

127.0.0.1 80.239.186.40
127.0.0.1 dist.blizzard.com.edgesuite.net
127.0.0.1 eu.battle.net

and I run apache and created folders static -> mediakey -> sc2-authenticationcode-enGB.txt

I don't know what should be in that file, definitely something other than MSG:07/27/2010

entering anything with MSG:OK MSG:01/07/2010 etc. only changes what wil pop up when you click on install. so I suppose there must be some key code for install/auth/decrypt ? And I think it will not start with MSG: