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LEGO Island Registration Code
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2023 1:46 am
by klegs
What is up with the odd lack of documentation on registering LEGO Island? I was interested in it and I realized the only reasonable way to register was through the code and it is not anywhere on the internet as far as I can see, not even saying that the codes are all one use. I could probably live without it but now I'm curious. I also want the free map.
Re: LEGO Island Registration Code
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:26 pm
by Ramen2X
I don't know much about the actual registration process, as it is no longer available due to Mindscape having obviously been in the ground for a long time. You'd have to talk to someone who remembers going through the process in the 90s when it was available. If the registration wizard doesn't actually check a remote server and just uses an algorithm to verify codes (unsure), you could probably just reverse it and make a keygen. But there's not much point in doing that outside of novelty; the map of LEGO Island you get as an incentive for registering was not actually physically or digitally sent to you at all, it is actually just on the CD-ROM and you are merely given the option to print it out after registration is complete. The map is split up into four bitmaps, stored in the resources of MSFREE.EXE (located on the CD-ROM in the MSREG directory). You can access them by using a Windows executable resource viewer/extractor or by using 7-Zip on MSFREE.EXE.
Re: LEGO Island Registration Code
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2023 12:31 am
by klegs
Ramen2X wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:26 pm
I don't know much about the actual registration process, as it is no longer available due to Mindscape having obviously been in the ground for a long time. You'd have to talk to someone who remembers going through the process in the 90s when it was available. If the registration wizard doesn't actually check a remote server and just uses an algorithm to verify codes (unsure), you could probably just reverse it and make a keygen. But there's not much point in doing that outside of novelty; the map of LEGO Island you get as an incentive for registering was not actually physically or digitally sent to you at all, it is actually just on the CD-ROM and you are merely given the option to print it out after registration is complete. The map is split up into four bitmaps, stored in the resources of MSFREE.EXE (located on the CD-ROM in the MSREG directory). You can access them by using a Windows executable resource viewer/extractor or by using 7-Zip on MSFREE.EXE.
I think that it doesn't do internet checks, which makes sense due to the internet still being relatively new at the time, and there is a register by modem option. I was more interested in the fact that no one has ever really talked about it.