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THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 1:19 am
by Xer
I downloaded thps4 and got a full install and replaced the start and skate4 exes in the game dir however it still won't work I have to have CD 2 in. Any help?

Re: THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 9:09 am
by Eraser
Make sure you downloaded it from here:
http://thps-mods.com/cracks/THPS4crack.rar

It must work, make sure you replaced them correctly. Try again?

Re: THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 7:10 am
by Xer
I downloaded the crack from the link you gave and I was able to get the launcher up but then it gave me two error messages:
"Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 was unable to initialize graphics engine"
"Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 has exited because the serial number is not valid. Try reinstalling the software."
I put he cracks in the game dir after installing. Did I do anything wrong?

Re: THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 3:27 pm
by Eraser
You copied both Start.exe and Skate4.exe to game folder? Start.exe does not belong there, find the folder where original Start.exe exists and replace it with a cracked one. Only ONE of the cracks goes to GAME folder.

Re: THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 4:43 pm
by Xer
So only replace Skate4 with the cracked skate 4?

Re: THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 1:47 am
by Eraser
It's very simple. Replace both original files with cracked ones.
the keyword here is REPLACE, NOT JUST MOVE THEM. What you did, you moved both files to GAME folder. By doing so you successfully replaced Skate.exe file but for some reason you also moved Start.exe there? Why? There was no Start.exe file in there in the first place. Start.exe is in a completely different folder. Find where it is and replace it with a cracked start.exe

Re: THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 1:49 am
by Xer
Oh I had not gotten what you said I replaced Start in the game dir and then opened the GAME folder and replaced Skate4.

Re: THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 12:29 pm
by Eraser
google how to crack games

Re: THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 1:24 pm
by Demo
well don't bash him too hard. doesn't seem to work indeed. like, if it was nocd, why would it even reach serial checking code?
this one works. launch Skate4.exe, not launcher.
http://levelmod.webatu.com/misc/Skate4.7z

Re: THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 2:02 pm
by Eraser
OK, I just tried intalling a FULL thps4 version and applied a crack provided on this website and everything works.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 was unable to initialize graphics engine
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 has exited because the serial number is not valid. Try reinstalling the software.

These error messages appear because there is no .reg file in your registry. You probably downloaded a ripped version which requires installing it too, not just extracting it.
If you want to avoid all this hassle just download FULL version (1GB+?) and apply crack provided on this website and it will 100% work. Delete/uninstall any older thps4 versions that you have before installing.

Link to thps4 torrent:
https://mega.nz/#!G9tWwKyI!TDfKFMmfMXnA ... pIVCzKv42g

you will need something to mount .bin files to install thps4:
http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/ (open source image mounter)

Re: THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 2:44 pm
by Demo
well, why exactly bother with full version and registry issues if you already have a ripped version installed and an exe that totally avoids registry?

btw i have regsetup there and it still didnt work, which is kinda weird.

Re: THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 3:09 pm
by Eraser
because he doesn't have it installed, just extracted. That .exe doesn't seem to avoid registry as I was getting same errors with just extracted (not installed) ripped version I tested today.

why exactly bother with full version and registry issues


there are no registry issues with full version as everything is installed.

Re: THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 1:41 pm
by Demo
Eraser wrote:because he doesn't have it installed, just extracted. That .exe doesn't seem to avoid registry as I was getting same errors with just extracted (not installed) ripped version I tested today.

you're right. regsetup actionly wrties some key to the registry. updated the file to include regsetup as well.
that's kinda misleading though that they throw you an engine error message when the key is invalid, hehe. will check if it's possible to make it portable.

Re: THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 1:35 am
by Xer
Alright I downloaded the full version from this site and then applied the Skate4 crack demo gave and it works! Is there anyway to change the settings though? They default key bindings are awkward.

Re: THPS4 No CD Problems

Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 2:00 am
by Eraser
yes, use start.exe to launch the game instead of Skate4.exe