ISLE.EXE: Difference between revisions

In at least one version of LEGO Island, ISLE.EXE was found to be protected with SecuROM. SecuROM is a form of DRM/copy protection, controversial due to its heavy-handed malware-like approach. Additionally, due to improved security measures introduced in Windows 10, SecuROM protected games no longer work at all on modern versions of Windows, requiring a cracked or patched version to play those games.

Since no other copies that we know of ship with any DRM whatsoever, it's unclear who decided to introduce SecuROM on this specific version and why. The actual frontend code, as well as that copy's LEGO1.DLL, was unchanged, so simply replacing ISLE.EXE with an unprotected copy from another version will bypass SecuROM entirely.