Spore Promo Video Leaked to YouTube

Khamura writes "As E3 draws near, those of us who have been following Will Wright's newest brainchild, Spore, are abuzz with expectation. And lo! Someone posted to YouTube a video that shows 'unedited footage of Spore that will be going to TV networks covering E3 next week'. It includes a look at the overhauled creature editor, a first glimpse of the texturing tools, and various other exciting things that had not been shown this clearly in the early prototype seen at the 2005 GDC. One of them is the ambient music when the UFO visits different planets." It certainly looks like the game we saw last year, but take with a grain of salt just the same.

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Re:I can't wait

[Sven The Space Monke]

Actually, it's very easy to defeat the CD checks for Battlefield 2 (and most other games - the only exception is StarForce protected games), assuming the disc image is made properly. Check out a program called 'CureRom'. First, use A-ray scanner to determine the copy protection that is on the disc. Then, use the appropriate copy protection profile in Alcohol 120 to make the image. Then, use the CureRom profile editor to create a game profile (which specifies the location of the CD image, the executable to run along with command line parameters, plus a few other misc. options). Once the profile is created, just double-click the profile to have CureRom load the image on to the virtual drive and launch the game.

I do that all the time - I'm the sysadmin for a chain of LAN centers. We run Battlefield 2 (along with dozens of other games) using such a setup. Changing out discs is not an option for us, so if we can't use software emulated optical drives and image files to run the game, we just don't run the game - period.

Granted, it doesn't solve the assinine "you need the CD!" mentality some game publishers have, but it works.