Hi
I have a problem. I have a retail version of Beyond Good & Evil and can't get it working. Of course I wasnt able to install it, but I did it thru a virtual xp mode. I add registry entry correctly, but it keeps telling me that the game is not properlly installed. I tried different things- grafic settings, disabling second core, fullprocessing.exe and so on.
But I did one thing. I managed to install a demo of Beyond Good & Evil. It works normally (hm maybe some graphic tweaks are needed). I thought - maybe replace some files? But till now I haven't achieved anything. Changing main exes and main game file just result in game crash. On the other hand I think thats some basis to work on.
Greets

Why do you say "Of course I wasn't able to install it"? What error message did you get when trying to install it normally under Win 7?
Replacing some of the files with the demo ones isn't a good idea. Creating the registry entries yourself isn't that good either :P
First we should find out why installation didn't work.
I can already tell you the GOG version works flawlessly on Win7 x64.

it's the tages problem. Installation starts, but just at the end it shuts down and erases all the files. Secondly, creating an entry is a known solution to this problem, but didnt work for me (I think i'll blame x64 structure).
I consider buying GOG version but I have bought this game once already.

I see. I've already bought this game too before but it's worth paying the 10 bucks again for something DRM-Free, adjusted for Win Vista and the goodies! ;)

Buy the GOG version. The time you'll waste (and it will be a waste) trying to get the retail CD version to work on 64bit will have cost you alot more than the time amount of money GOG is asking for it.
This is what you get for buying a TAGES infected game.
If you insist on saving money then if you have Vmware 6.5+ and WIndows XP as a guest OS then you can play Beyond Good & Evil using that but I doubt the performance will be that great. (It does work though). This is what I used for quite awhile until the GoG Beyond Good & Evil release.
My last attempt at getting the retail ver of the game working on Beyond Good & Evil was to manually extract all of the files from the installshield installer, import the registry keys I'd saved from when I monitored a previous install and of course it didn't work because it still needed TAGES. So I used a NOCD patched executable but that didn't work either. (I'm thinking the executable wasn't properly patched). I was debating on figuring out how to crack the executable myself but then the GoG ver was released and that solved that. (and no using the executable from the GoG ver on the retail ver will not work so don't bother).
It almost seemed to me like TAGES had protected the main game file as well....(can't remember the name but it's pretty big), and no you can't transplant that file either.
I don't waste my time haxoring the games, I either don't buy the DRM infected crap or I buy it and download the NOCD/NOAUTH patches. That's usually about as far as I go.