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I was referring to the thanks at the end of your original post, no matter on that I was only joking lol. By SecuROM I meant the GH3 executable, while the Arcade exe is HASP protected that means that if one were to massage the key out of a dongle, they could decrypt the exe and get a clean one, and since they used HASP protection, SecuROM's usual obfuscation is not present. The guy behind GH3+ would probably be interested in looking at such a decrypted exe. I'll DM you

If this has GH3+ DLLs like tiltfix and whammyfix then this isn't decrypted GH:Arcade exe but GH3+ exe as modified by ExileLord. That explains why star power crashed like our earlier attempts at using GH3 exe. So what's up with the "dongle guy" lol Edit: confirmed, the regular exe is identical to Exile's GH3+, the crashfix modifies one DWORD (not sure what the purpose is though). What's the purpose of the launcher? Edit: nm, figured out the nop'ing, and the launcher. Nice job on sticking that ini setting in Xinputter.ini lol Nice work nonetheless (although if I can figure out the SP crash I'd happily send along a replacement qb file for you to package) but was really hoping for a real cracked Arcade exe, a version of the game that hasn't been tainted by SecuROM. @Mohkerz hmu in DMs if you want to jump on my Discord and discuss this hack further, it's primarily for GH2 hacking but I do have a #gharcadehax channel

Regarding the crashing, back when the GH:Arcade disc dump was found, a few of us in the GH community attempted to make the game files work with the GH3 exe, and one of the problems we had was that gaining a half bar of star power would crash the game upon trying to display the "tilt guitar to trigger star power" text, and if I remember correctly, either neutering that script or copying the equivalent script from GH3 should fix the crashing. Not sure if that's the problem here. Also, I haven't actually downloaded this yet, but given that you mentioned a "dongle guy", I'm guessing this is a decrypted Arcade exe? If so, was just curious if this exe by itself would be usable on an actual cabinet without any qb mods. Would certainly be useful for any cabinet owner who doesn't have their dongle for whatever reason.