What said in the comment above made me almost cry.
And, you can mount an iso of the disc in Windows using VirtualClone, and it works just fine on that OS. The first edition of AoE is too old for that kind of safeguard. Only I can edit the paths as I still have the original ‘CDConf.ini’ file used to create the installer.It's not game copy protection. I really dont know why it didnt work, it works like that for most people.Īll I did for you is changed the path of the button to look for the ‘setup.exe’ instead. So that should have worked providing the files are in that folder. The original button was programmed to look inside a folder named ‘AOE3Y’ and then to find a file named ‘autorun.exe’. Its not really a file that is looking for the ‘autorun.exe’, its the command given to the buttons. Age Of Empires 3 Modsīut either way, we often do 'illegal' things to do what we love. That's why keygens work: You don't need the correct key, just a valid key.Īnd your solution probably would work, but it most likely isn't legal to just get an ISO of the missing disc, depending on the local laws where he lives. The discs in all retail copies are identical. But either way, you could try this Greetz, arvenyon Actually, most older games just check whether the key is a valid result of the generation algorithm they used. I doubt it to be honest, cause many elderly games have their keys bound to the CD and are not checked with a database online. This is just theoretically, I do not know if this works. Just mount the ISO virtually and when CD2 is asked put it in physically. Said: Hey there, You could certainly try to get an ISO file of CD1 from a friend or somone other generally. And your solution probably would work, but it most likely isn't legal to just get an ISO of the missing disc, depending on the local laws where he lives.
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