As you mentioned Spore is a used copy, I don't think you will get provided with another key by EA. The code was used by the original owner of the game most likely and if they didn't use it they should provide you with the code. Jul 06, 2013 How to Retrieve Your Game's Registration Key/Serial Number in Windows. I have lost my spore cd key and i just whiped my computer back to the factory settings is there anyway i can find out my key with just my serial number on the. How to Retrieve Your Game's Registration Key/Serial Number in Windows. Microbe Joined: 07. For Spore on the PC, a GameFAQs Answers question titled 'Where's the Console key?'
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anything could happen, you have been warned!!
Requirements
- git and various needed libraries for compiling wine-git, the patches required for playing spore are in the current git mainline for wine
- A Decent System: This guide was tested on an dell xps 1210 3.5GB Ram, Ubuntu 8.04.1 (amd64)
- Up to date graphics driver (NVIDIA beta 177.67 was tested)
- NoCD crack (Also known 'as DRM is stupid and stops things working properly, and stop trying to pretend games copying takes away from sales, fix'))
Getting Wine Compiled
On Amd64 systems for distros that do not support multi-lib (Debian based, and others), you need to do some manual symlinking in the wine-git checkouted repository to the location on the 32bit libs.
The winehq guide has a wiki on compiling for amd64, I presume this is not needed for 32bit dists. it can be found here : http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit
For the lazy steps:
Step 1: Create a directory (as normal user) somewhere with space, and move into it.
Step 2: Get wine dependencies and, git. ( http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine )
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Step 3: Check out wine-git
Step 4: Make lib32 symlinks in wine-git directory (AMD64 ONLY, location may be different for dists other than debian/ubuntu)
Step 5: Configure and compile wine-git (you don't need the ldflags if you are not on amd64)
Step 6: Check that the version of wine in your path is the git one (wine --version should report something like 1.4.asddgf )If not remove wine from package manager to clean any dist versions out, and re-run make install from the wine-git directory
Step 7: Install Spore (wine <path to spore setup>)
Step 8: Copy over the NoCD patched .exe over SporeApp.exe
Step 9: Run spore with the follow (this turns off console logging of error messages which can hinder performance)
Step 10: Rejoice
Patch 1.04
This patch (and presumably later patches) depend on imm32.dll.
- Download imm32.dll from the internet.
- Place imm32.dll in your system32 folder, usually ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32
- Run winecfg.
- Select the Libraries tab, enter imm32 under New override for library, and click Add.
Hopefully, Spore will now work again.
Notes
Please add your own experiences here: This guide tested on DuoCore2 7600, Laptop, With 7400GS, Nvidia Card.
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- Running without compiz/composite window manager is smoother, (less frequent slowdowns)
- Launching the game with -safe flag improves and solves some problems e.g wine ./SporeApp.exe -safe
- Game has not crashed with Git checkout from 13/09/2008
- Installed on a DuoCore2 T7100, Laptop, with 8400M Nvidia Card and 4G ram. 32bit Ubuntu 8.04. Works fine.
- Works fine on my AMD64X2, 2GB RAM, GeForce 8600GT, 64bit Ubuntu 8.04 computer. After some minor adjustments in installation:)
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AEnertia 02:31, 14 September 2008 (UTC)