Access Code Fix

Last update: April 3, 2024

This plugin fixes a bug in TOCA Race Driver 2 and 3 where the access code wasn’t generated correctly on 64-bit systems and/or Windows 10, rendering bonus codes unusable. For better randomness of bonus codes, the console behaviour of picking a random access code has been restored, since many users nowadays share the same ProductId after upgrading to Windows 10/11.

Research and Notes

On Windows, the game attempts to query the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion->ProductId value to generate an access code (4 digits). This is invalid for two reasons:

  1. This registry key is not present on Windows 10 anymore, since it has always been a mirrored key, presumably for legacy reasons. The correct registry key to use here was always HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion->ProductId.
  2. ProductId is one of the keys that are not mirrored on 64-bit systems to a 32-bit registry key, so the game was unable to query it as-is.

This plugin corrects both issues, querying the key from a correct place and explicitly specifying to query from a native registry view.

For a full list of cheat codes, see Bonus Codes.

Setup instructions

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