Hi all!
I've recently made an interesting discovery on an old computer at my parents' place.
I found a program called 'Cracker' or something similar, that's supposed to remove the copy protection from old programs.
It has a list of about a hundred or more programs that it can remove the protection from, and Arena was on the list.

I figured I would try it out, to see what would happen. So, I ran it and loaded up Arena, and when I got to the shift gate, it let me through no problem at all. It didn't ask me for any spell costs, or anything.

I figured that this would make it alot easier for anyone playing Arena, especially when starting a new character. Now, since this program can 'crack' other games as well, I obviously can't distribute the program itself, but I do want to make it's effect available to everyone.

What do you guys think? Maybe I could contact Bethesda about it? Although, I doubt they would do anything with it

I have a collection of those old crack programs somewhere. They're really nifty, and work for about 90% of the games I tried them with. The other 10% had broken executables.

Yea, I doubt it too.

Or they can just go to \ARENA\Docs and read the passwords.txt but I suppose not having to deal with it at all together is rather convenient.

True, but can you really trust the crack, it could break something else ingame or have other unwanted effects, which only becomes apparent later, since most who made the cracks never bothered to test it for an hour or so. But most of the time the cracks works.

No crack talk :nono: