Mr. Eight-Three-One Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 I remember my friend had a copy with an autoplay screen (The windows that pop up upon inserting the disc, which give you various options, whether it be to proceed, read the manual, or quit). Thing is, I vividly remember his didn't have the copy protection. It also had the extremely ugly "masterpiece" border. My version is also the 2001 version, but it has no autoplay other than to install. Does anybody else have this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modded Lego Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Ok here are my results from the LR1 Checksummer: LegoRacers.exe: 80c9577841476a26ed76749b8e4b4a9f 802816 bytes 23/07/1999 00:55:48 LegoRacers.icd: not found HUH! This is the only thing that is different and the EXE has different values. I have the 1999 version so the LegoRacers.icd should be there. Unless they made a version, which I have, that got rid of having the disc to play and still had the trophies and the full screen loading screens! WEIRD! LEGO.JAM: 16beb0b9d260a10098b141015c9dd726 19592720 bytes 23/07/1999 04:15:06 GolDP.dll: a9a5ee99530f7a1b06a41e11785bda2e 425984 bytes 23/07/1999 00:55:30 Hope this will help Edit: Here are pics of box, disc, and jewel case Box: Disc: Jewel Case: Other Pics: Inside Of Manual: Back Of Box: Just as a reminder here are some of the full screen pics of the loading screens Thanks for the tool OrigamiGuy! :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le717 Posted July 7, 2012 Author Share Posted July 7, 2012 What on earth? Your 1999 copy is dated 7-23-1999, @ 00:55:48 and mine is dated 07-23-1999 at 21:45:56! But our LEGO.JAM and GolDP.dll are the same, but your's has no copy-protection! What is going on here?! Maybe the devs weren't sure about having copy-protection in the first place, and a few didn't have any? But the manual clearly states it has to have the CD.... ModdedLego, do you need have your CD in your computer to run your 1999 LR? O.T. Nobody make any LEGO Island references here, or the get's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modded Lego Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 No I don't, But I have the 1999 version, Weird Huh! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Eight-Three-One Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Durr...okay I'm really lost now. I thought the insane amount of reissues of Humongous games got confusing enough, but now THIS!? Geesh, what happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modded Lego Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Don't know! I thought I had the same 1999 version as everyone else and I too thought that there was only one 1999 version! Guess I was wrong! :gasp: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Eight-Three-One Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Well, it's certainly a weird find. Actually, you're extremely lucky, because if you ever want to back it up, you can without SafeDisc getting in the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modded Lego Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Thats true! I guess I'll do that now! :love: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumboking Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 I received this one yesterday: The back is blue and the front is orange. Checksums: LegoRacers.exe: c97ead113ee3eb254cb7c199788c6bfd 239351 bytes 27/07/1999 18:17:08 LegoRacers.icd: 0fa103407cb6d68f62d6b1739f660a9c 802816 bytes 27/07/1999 18:17:08 LEGO.JAM: 16beb0b9d260a10098b141015c9dd726 19592720 bytes 22/07/1999 19:15:06 GolDP.dll: a9a5ee99530f7a1b06a41e11785bda2e 425984 bytes 22/07/1999 15:55:30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcom Isst Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 LegoRacers.exe: a0007cfe64097651e5505fba15ab5cc1 239351 bytes 24/07/1999 01:45:56 LegoRacers.icd: 0fa103407cb6d68f62d6b1739f660a9c 802816 bytes 24/07/1999 01:45:56 LEGO.JAM: 16beb0b9d260a10098b141015c9dd726 19592720 bytes 23/07/1999 00:15:06 GolDP.dll: a9a5ee99530f7a1b06a41e11785bda2e 425984 bytes 22/07/1999 20:55:30 I used the Checksummer, and it made lots of letters and numbers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le717 Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 That's Alcom for ya. Always trying to make a joke. Oh, this post is off-topic, sorry. I'll bring it back onto the tracks. I received this one yesterday: -snip- The back is blue and the front is orange. Checksums: LegoRacers.exe: c97ead113ee3eb254cb7c199788c6bfd 239351 bytes 27/07/1999 18:17:08 LegoRacers.icd: 0fa103407cb6d68f62d6b1739f660a9c 802816 bytes 27/07/1999 18:17:08 LEGO.JAM: 16beb0b9d260a10098b141015c9dd726 19592720 bytes 22/07/1999 19:15:06 GolDP.dll: a9a5ee99530f7a1b06a41e11785bda2e 425984 bytes 22/07/1999 15:55:30 It seems we have the same version. LegoRacers.exe: a0007cfe64097651e5505fba15ab5cc1 239351 bytes 24/07/1999 01:45:56 LegoRacers.icd: 0fa103407cb6d68f62d6b1739f660a9c 802816 bytes 24/07/1999 01:45:56 LEGO.JAM: 16beb0b9d260a10098b141015c9dd726 19592720 bytes 23/07/1999 00:15:06 GolDP.dll: a9a5ee99530f7a1b06a41e11785bda2e 425984 bytes 22/07/1999 20:55:30 I used the Checksummer, and it made lots of letters and numbers! And we do too! Well, so far ModdedLego is the only one with a 1999 copy different from the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noob Slayer Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I wish I had 7 pro or higher for xp mode so the game would run smooth...or if I had an xp disc to create the virtual hard drive myself... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Eight-Three-One Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 XP Mode doesn't even support 3D acceleration. The game would run, but it would look horrible and crash a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noob Slayer Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Ugh...what happened to you, Windows? Well, I found out the problem anyways: it's not the OS, it's probably either the graphics card or the processor, both of which are AMD, but LR requires Intel... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Eight-Three-One Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 It's the graphics. In order for LR to run properly, you need 3D acceleration. Very few VMs support this feature though, and XP Mode is one that doesn't. I hear VMware and VirtualBox have support for it, but it's still not the best. My advice is to just find an older computer with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le717 Posted December 30, 2012 Author Share Posted December 30, 2012 I wish I had 7 pro or higher for xp mode so the game would run smooth... XP Mode doesn't even support 3D acceleration. The game would run, but it would look horrible and crash a lot. Ugh...what happened to you, Windows? Well, I found out the problem anyways: it's not the OS, it's probably either the graphics card or the processor, both of which are AMD, but LR requires Intel... Since when did LR require Intel? I have both an AMD CPU and GPU at home, and I have never had issues with game play. It worked just as well that when I had a nVidia laptop GPU (minus a good framerate, but that was due to the poor quality of the GPU). This is the first time I've ever heard of LR requiring an Intel card. Any modern PC can run LR (well, maybe except for a netbook and ultrabook. Ugh, don't get me started on those fads...). Some do it bester than others (jamesster's laptop has a better FPS than his desktop in LR), but they all run it. Heh, I've even installed LR on a machine running Win8 that factory shipped with Vista hardware and OS and it runs properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JrMasterModelBuilder Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Intel and AMD processors use the same instruction set. Intel does make better processors, but I've run LR on both just fine. LR predates AMD so they wouldn't have know it supports it. Also, I agree direct 3D support is poor on all virtualizing software I've tried (I haven't tried VMware though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Eight-Three-One Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 From what I've gathered, here's the support on most VM software... Virtual PC 2007 -- none at all. Then again, it emulates a Pentium II, so why even bother? Windows Virtual PC -- Again, none. From what I hear though, it works effectively at the speed of a Pentium III or IV. So again, does it even matter? VirtualBox -- has some, but it's not that good from what I can gather. VMware -- from what I hear it has the best, but I haven't been able to try it as I don't have any OSes that support it, as you need Windows 2000 or better to support it. DOSBox -- Windows 95 was the first one to support 3D, and there are custom builds that have Voodoo emulation support, but good luck. Windows 9x support on DOSBox is hardly developed yet, and as such, it's unstable as can be and has a nasty tendency to crash over simple commands, like opening a folder. It certainly doesn't help that, unlike Windows 3.1, Windows 9x is independent of DOS in several ways, which just makes it even harder to work with. The worst part? This is the closest we've come to 3D acceleration on 9x emulators thus far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JrMasterModelBuilder Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 VMware -- from what I hear it has the best, but I haven't been able to try it as I don't have any OSes that support it, as you need Windows 2000 or better to support it. Windows 2000 or better? Linux! Anyway, I can add to this list: Parallels -- About the same as VirtualBox, better is some aspects, worse in others. Mr. Eight-Three-One 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noob Slayer Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 The game says Pentium 166 MHz or faster required...Pentium being a product of Intel. The game runs just fine on my mother's AMD CPU, but it's really choppy and it runs at a very low frame rate (probably around 30 FPS). That's why I used my divine mind trick abilities (master at convincing weak-minded people here) and my grandparents succumbed and bought me an old XP laptop for a decent price. Runs very well at 62 FPS on this thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Eight-Three-One Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 *sigh* They're too young to know... When LR came out, the Pentium was the reigning king of processors. AMD did exist...but not really. The people who made the processor don't really matter though, the architecture is exactly the same, AMD makes the cheaper ones, but Intel makes the stronger ones. On a game that requires 166 MHz though, it really doesn't matter. On my Windows 8 computer, it runs at 25 FPS actually, and it's an Intel. Strangely though, turning on a second screen fixes it. Figure that one out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noob Slayer Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Wow...that's....pretty weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenyx Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I've got some new checksum data. LEGO Racers 1999 original release LegoRacers.exe: a0007cfe64097651e5505fba15ab5cc1 239351 bytes Friday, July 23, 1999 10:45:56 PM LegoRacers.icd: 0fa103407cb6d68f62d6b1739f660a9c 802816 bytes Friday, July 23, 1999 10:45:56 PM LEGO.JAM: 16beb0b9d260a10098b141015c9dd726 19592720 bytes Thursday, July 22, 1999 9:15:06 PM GolDP.dll: a9a5ee99530f7a1b06a41e11785bda2e 425984 bytes Thursday, July 22, 1999 5:55:30 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Skeltal Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 My 1999 version runs without the cd.   LegoRacers.exe:     80c9577841476a26ed76749b8e4b4a9f     802816 bytes     22/07/1999 22:55:48  LegoRacers.icd:     not found  LEGO.JAM:     16beb0b9d260a10098b141015c9dd726     19592720 bytes     23/07/1999 02:15:06  GolDP.dll:     a9a5ee99530f7a1b06a41e11785bda2e     425984 bytes     22/07/1999 22:55:30    When I installed my game,it didn't install an icd file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumboking Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 My 1999 version runs without the cd.That makes 2 people that have a no-cd 1999 version.Could you run the checksummer and post the results? EDIT: Hmm... It seems you have the same version that Modded Lego has. Now I want one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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