The Neverhood + patch (english)

From Wikipedia: The Neverhood is a 1996 PC CD-ROM Claymation video game created by animator Doug TenNapel and released by Dreamworks Studios. It is an adventure game. Each clay animation was painstakingly captured frame-by-frame. Owing to the quirky and wacky animation, silly characters and unusual music by composer Terry Scott Taylor, this award winning game has a cult following to this day, though it has been out of print and largely unavailable for years. As of 2007, there are numerous fansites devoted to The Neverhood. Its soundtrack, Imaginarium: Songs from the Neverhood, also continues to sell well. The Neverhood received good reviews, but was not a commercial hit. By the mid-1990s adventure games had begun to decline in popularity. Several other adventure games made in this period such as Grim Fandango also received critical acclaim, but failed to sell well. The Neverhood was put in the official Microsoft list of underrated games.

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ee9 (2010-03-17)

Awesome game! Please seed till the end of times :D

Sick3r (2010-10-27)

So what does the patch do? A bit suspect =P

Sick3r (2010-10-28)

Never mind it checks out. Thx

Timverba (2011-06-16)

How to crack "The Neverhood" CD-Check
Welcome to yet another tutorial by me! I have just recently got this oldie (it was released
in 1996!), because I wanted to play it. The problem was that I had to return this game
to the friend who gave it to me after 1 day, and I don't have a burner. So I figured I will
try and rip it, so it could stay as long as I want it on my computer!
First I installed the game. Installation only requires 5 megs of your Hard disk, because
all the movies are in the CD. After you install the game, remove the CD from the drive,
and click on NHC.exe. You get that message "Error Reading CDROM". Disassemble the file
and look for the string ref's in Win32Dasm. After you found it, you'll notice that that
messagebox is not really helpfull, since you can't get to the real CD-Check. That's
what I figured out when I first tried.
It might sound odd, but the saved games are saved inside the registry. You can figure that
out by looking in the string ref's. Go to the registry and look for the installation path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\DreamWorks Interactive\Neverhood
You'll see this kind of data:
Data Drive=D:\
PID=54767-442-5719094-59095
Installed Directory=C:\Program Files\DreamWorks Interactive\Neverhood
Run File"=C:\Program Files\DreamWorks Interactive\Neverhood\NHC
KBPS_CD=00002800
KBPS=00002800
Installed=00000001
After you see this, you ought to understand what to do!
all you have to do, is simply change the "Data Drive" value into ".".
Why? Because the app is looking for 'D:\' which is my CD-Rom drive.
If you change that value to '.' it will simply look for the data in the current directory
where the HNC.exe file is located. But you cannot really play unless you copy the entire
Data directory from within the CD-Rom (over 600 megs).
In order to completely finish this crack, you'll have to create a RegPatch file (a .reg
file). This is how it should look like:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\DreamWorks Interactive\Neverhood]
"Data Drive"="."
Pretty simple isn't it?
BTW, Neverhood is one of the most enjoyable games I have ever played!
Have fun... :)
WhizKiD
[email protected]: KERNEL32.GetVolumeInformationA, Ord:0177h

Wartai (2013-04-29)

Worked fine without any patch on Windows 8 Enterprise 64bit.
Just had to edit the registry with Regedit as stated before, but had to use the install directory, mine was "E:Neverhood" and copy the data folder from image to the install directory. Use regedit search to find it as in windows 8 it isnt the same as posted and was two entries to edit...

kudja (2013-07-05)

Dear God! My Childhood. I had a demo version of this as a 3 year old kid, found it in some PC Magazine CD. I almost started crying just now after I've found this.