The program had worked fine but then a need to reinstall it arose. It was a 100% legitimate piece of software officially purchased a long to time ago. Some time ago, I was asked to reinstall an old program. Today, I will show how to do this easily, quickly, and effectively. But what if the installer doesn’t want to start, or even worse, refuses to install the app? In that situation, you have no choice but to hack it.
Posted in Games, Misc Hacks Tagged game, games, heroes of might and magic, installer, installshield, ubisoft, video games There are benefits, of course, but there’s always a tradeoff to be made. Even then, there’s always the risk you’ll lose your games down the track.
It’s a fine example of some of the issues around moving games to digital distribution proper attention must be paid to do it right. In the end, it came down to some registry key shenanigans, but the route of how got there is well worth the read. However, the installer would report that it couldn’t find the original files from the base game, and fail to start.įixing the issue was no mean feat, requiring use of the Sexy Installshield Decompiler to dive into the guts of the installer to see what was going wrong. partner bought it from Ubisoft, and ran the installer. The game in question was the Hammers of Fate expansion pack for the base game Heroes of Might and Magic V. Thus, it was time to dive into the game files and sort the problem out. Some of these older games haven’t been properly ported to their new delivery platform, as found out. Even when buying titles from yesteryear, we usually download them from an online service. These days, we seldom purchase games on physical media.
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