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Temporary "No DRM" Solution

Noah Sherwin edited this page Sep 13, 2022 · 2 revisions

RE: MCC/CEA and Invalid Product Key, until we can offer a better "No DRM" solution...

To bypass Halo's Invalid Product Key error and our installer's Activation menu, merge one of the following .reg files into your Windows Registry before installing SPV3. Note: Registry Entry files are plain text. In other words, any text editor can view and edit them before you merge them into your Registry.

OS type Registry entries
64-bit https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/735711078717325323/1008167430541037670/HaloCustomEdition_ZeroKey_Win32-on-Win64.reg
32-bit https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/682885060256727047/1012970951224328202/HaloCustomEdition_ZeroKey_Win32.reg

Explanation

Halo does little to verify its Product ID.

PID can be all any numbers split by dashes (see codeblock) DigitalProductID requires two set bytes: 0x0 = 0xa4, 0x4 = 0x03 The rest can be random. The resulting values aren't real product IDs, but Halo doesn't care.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Halo CE]
"PID"="00000-000-0000000-00000"
"DigitalProductID"=hex:a4,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00