A bunch of old PC games I found have these installshield self-extracting EXEs for their setups, however running them requires a password (that I don't have) and there are no tools online to extract them manually.
Any info on these?
3D Brick Breaker Madness - http://puu.sh/kRu5l.zip
3D Caveman Rocks - http://puu.sh/kRu7W.zip
Cosmi (?) PC Games InstallShield
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aluigi
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Re: Cosmi (?) PC Games InstallShield
It's very simple.
This is the simplest step-by-step that anyone can follow:
1)
Run the the setup installer
2)
Run SysInternals Process Explorer and create a minidump of the setup process
3)
Open the minidump with a hex editor and search the string you see in the installer, for example "This will".
The password is just the text under it, "journey" in the screenshot.
That's all.
I don't know if exist tools or other ways, I simply did this test on the fly and it worked.
For reference, the passwords are rack and journey
This is the simplest step-by-step that anyone can follow:
1)
Run the the setup installer
2)
Run SysInternals Process Explorer and create a minidump of the setup process
3)
Open the minidump with a hex editor and search the string you see in the installer, for example "This will".
The password is just the text under it, "journey" in the screenshot.
That's all.
I don't know if exist tools or other ways, I simply did this test on the fly and it worked.
For reference, the passwords are rack and journey
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Miles2345
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Re: Cosmi (?) PC Games InstallShield
oh awesome, good info to know as well 