Cracked games can be patched - how ?

Question

Any game tht needs to be cracked can be patched by any chance ?

talkin abt "PC"

Answer 1

Question too general, so I'll have to give you a general answer.

It depends, really.

Usually, a "cracked" game involves messing with the original game EXE to disable certain parts of the program that checks whatever copy protection mechanism it uses. That would cause the EXE to be different, and it can be detected through some sort of CRC/Checksum algorithm. As most patchers check the CRC to make sure you have the original EXE, patcher won't touch the "cracked" EXE, thus, you can't patch it.

And in some cases, a "patch" just replaces some files instead of modifying the files, which means your cracked EXE just got replaced with a GOOD EXE, which will see that your game ain't original.

In general, the only way is to wait for someone to crack the updated EXE, and that could take a while.