Subject: New CD check crack for Descent 2 (after v1.2 patch)
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 22:04:53 -0700

I've recracked the v1.2 DESCENT2.EXE file after patching it. I changed a
75 around Hex address F8460 to an EB, so now it doesn't ask for the CD.

All you gotta do is use a hexeditor, search for E8 17 FD FF FF 85 C0 75 
or go to Hex address F846F and change 75 to EB. Then copy the movie files 
from the CD to your hard drive with the /a switch like this:

D:\D2DATA> copy /a *.mvl c:\games\descent2... 

This copies the entire *.mvl files to the hard drive as "ASCII text files", 
so your descent2.exe won't be calling for the movies before running a game.
BTW: this only copies about 1.7K *total* to your drive. Then take out your 
CD and run descent2.exe. Much better than the original .mvl filesizes of 
say... 98MB! Total Descent2 running from HD = 48,955,192. Not bad at all.
