urdman wrote: Where did you get a crack no-CD file? I'm running it on a FAT32 drive with windows 95 compatibility mode and I get an error stating "insert my AUTHENTIC ORIGINAL disk" If I had a crack no-CD file, I might get around this. You'll have to change back to your optical drive in Regedit

Thanks, that was not as complicated as I thought it would be! Apparently the hex editor search requires the complete string. But now I have the same issue as urdman. The "AUTHENTIC ORIGINAL" cd is inserted and recognized by the system, but the STNW launcher won't have it. Any ideas?

It seems like you did it yochenhsieh! Can you (or anyone else) please give a quick step-by-step how-to on the Hex Editor? Thanks in advance