The only change being in more formal filenames following ISO standards, e.g., HP2 changed to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
The TLDR is that I archived everything 'as is', so however these cracks were initially offered up is exactly how I gathered everything, ensured the files are clean, and uploaded here for posterity. This secondary page is for more at-risk material that falls in a grey area where copyright is concerned (hence my long disclaimer in the description for this item.) So, there's redundancy in the sense that you're right, there isn't a need for the keygens executables since the keys are widely available on many places online - you'd be surprised just how many online auctions, for example, display the keys in photos for all to see.
Independent dumps of each Harry Potter game (again, all in the name of software preservation here) have been conducted on the project's main page. There is a bit of redundancy, unfortunately. I do not know who they are but have gathered they were apart of communities online dedicated to creating the cracks (keygens, workarounds, etc.) shortly after each of the later games (HP4 and later) were commercially released. The original authors of these cracks are anonymous, unknown. But these are the most widely used, to date. There may exist other cracks online that do more/less the same thing. And likely around a dozen or more who actively livestream on Twitch/YouTube as of this post, and concluded these are the unofficial, official no-cd cracks that most people have been using over the years.
I decided to archive these no-cd cracks as a one-time shot effort, in other words, I wanted to see if these were the 'unofficial/official' cracks that most people had been using for the Harry Potter games.Īfter consulting with the Potter speed running community, which is roughly several hundred people given the number of people active in the Discord, Twitch, and YouTube gaming communities. ( e.g., DH2 popped up as a red flag and I had several others in the speed running community confirm that this is, indeed, a false positive) So these should be clean. For example, I use Norton and it gave a false positive when I first came into possession of these. The keygen.exe might be causing a false positive with your antivirus software.
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