DarkBlizz

Any map, even protected maps, can be found in the Battle.net cache folder (C:\ProgramData\Blizzard Entertainment\Battle.net\Cache on Windows 7/Vista).  If you open the map in the editor, you have access to everything in the map, except you cannot see anything in the trigger editor.  But this does not really matter because the MapScript.galaxy file can simply be extracted from the map.  You don't even need to extract it with an MPQ editor either, since you can just extract it with the editor's Importer (you have to check Reserved to see it on the list).  I believe you even get to preview it in there too.

So if you decide to open somebody's published and protected map, searching through your cache folder for it would probably be a lengthy process.  To make it easier, delete or backup your Cache folder, start up StarCraft II and download only the map that you want to open up.  Search your new Cache folder for .s2ma, and search through a much smaller number of maps.  You can also see the file size when downloading the map, so that also narrows down which ones to open.

Regardless, it is very easy to open and edit maps that people published and protected.  No harder than WarCraft III, just a little more time consuming (also, no one has made any kind of map protection for SC2 besides Blizzard's, which obviously doesn't work well).

I don't know why anyone would want to watch them without having played the campaign first.

Quote from: tomsons26 on July 21, 2010, 06:03:07 AM
anyone tried to disassemble the Mac installator?

Nobody cares about Macs.

quote author=Cybertox link=topic=2040.msg19323#msg19323 date=1279794546]Digital download has the same price as the retail version WTF?


You aren't paying for the manual.

Quote from: steve30x on July 19, 2010, 02:27:48 AM
The problem here is the greedy people are crying foul of Vernam's claim of cracking the installer. :tease: You greedy people need to get over it and wait for the 27th and buy the game. Otherwise wait for the crack to be released and sto being such a childish greey baby.

I did too.

I gave the same amount of evidence.

Quote from: Glorm on July 17, 2010, 08:59:25 PM
Ahh, been trying for almost 3 full days now to get this to work, Just had to try after I saw it was possible. Been stuck on the temp installer. Just can't figure out what I should be looking for in there.

But well, maybe that's my limit, never done anything likes this before, was interesting to see how far I would get.
Going to watch this topic and see if I can get any further. I Think my main problem is I don't know how to operate the hex editor, it is not that simple learn and I'm not sure if this is possible without it.

Bit random message but just had to leave a mark, hoping for some assistance if there is any chance that I would make it. :S

Well first of all people are trying to get around the authentication when that is not really the issue.  The installer can't even open the .MPQE files.  The focus should be on figuring out how to open those, which would allow people to make a regular .MPQ file with the same data and successfully install, and you would at least be able to see the unavailable assets and other data.

Nobody has actually installed the client, and nobody has even tried to Photoshop something up "proving" that they had.

Quote from: 2g4u on July 17, 2010, 02:27:42 PM
Btw all of those are fakes, aren't they ?




And this video: Starcraft 2 digital download cracked? are all fake

If by fake you mean simply edited .xml files and possible other simple changes to the installer that don't actually get anywhere, yes.

And the video isn't even the same installer.

Quote from: tomsons26 on July 17, 2010, 12:16:58 PM
:ticked:
Problem this is in an xml
ReplacementInstallerURL            http://us.version.blizzard.com/installer/%s/%d.%s.%s.txt

AND
NewInstaller1                                 Downloading
NewInstaller2                                 New Installer...

Here's Cataclysm's

http://us.installers.blizzard.com/installer/%s/%d.%s.txt

Quote from: tomsons26 on July 17, 2010, 12:16:58 PM
:ticked:
Problem this is in an xml
ReplacementInstallerURL            http://us.version.blizzard.com/installer/%s/%d.%s.%s.txt

AND
NewInstaller1                                 Downloading
NewInstaller2                                 New Installer...

You can access this as well, if you replace the text in NotReleased.xml with
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

    <overlay page="InstallerReplaced.xml" />

</page>

There is no new installer download right now.

A lot of this stuff was already in the original beta installer by the way.

Have any of you considered the possibility that the installer simply doesn't know how to read the .MPQE files, and that there will be a small update for the installer on release day that allows it to be read?  The most feasible thing is probably to figure out how to open the .MPQEs themselves, which would allow you to simply install because you would have the installer file list and accessible data files.

Quote from: Cybertox on July 17, 2010, 09:23:30 AM
If Vernam really cracked the game he posted the crack.But he is not going to give his crack to other guys that means that there is no crack.Maybe the picture was even done with PhotoShop.Or leaked from a guy who really cracked the game.

Quote from: darkrei9n link=topic=2033.msg19106#msg19106   date=1279377403
I can't get to the installer part, I can't get to   the authorization part. Must. Keep. Trying.

1.  Open Installer UI 1.MPQ with your favorite MPQ editor.

2.  Locate NotReleased.xml, found within InstallCD\Global\Unpack

3.  Replace the text with
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

  <overlay page="InstallerInfo.xml" />

</page>


4.  Save and close it all.

5.  There you go, you're where everyone has proven to have made it.  By the way, installers and pretty much everything else in the Installer UI 1.MPQ appear in your temp folders, just like every other freaking Blizzard installer.