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Official Spore Expanded Travel Radius’ Mod

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Creator: Maxis
Source: Spore.com

The ‘Expanded Travel Radius’ mod let users reach the un-reachable Grox planets at the center of the galaxy. It increases the travel radius when in the galactic core zone to 10 parsecs (a travel radius of 9.8 parsecs is needed to reach all the stars in the galactic core area). This mod will work with your current saved games.

To use it, save it to your Spore Data folder (C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\SPORE\Data). You’ll need to have updated to patch three in order to run this mod. If you patch your Spore game after using this mod, this file will be automatically deleted. To get the mod after patching, simply download it again.

This mod is available for both PC and Mac.

Spore Patch Version 1.06 – Dr. Pepper’s 14 Bots Parts Pack

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Creator: Maxis
Source: SporePrograms

(330 MB – PC Only) Download at your own risk – it is known that you cannot install Galactic Adventures after installing this patch and it may cause errors for regions that are not English. The file was directly pulled from the official EA server, so we’re not responsible for whatever glitches/crashes this may cause to your game.

  • Spore v1.06 Parts patch contains 14 bot parts for your creatures. From the Dr. Pepper/EA 2010 promo
  • This is an official Spore patch in terms that it came directly from http://www.spore.com untouched in terms of me uploading it. However, according to MaxisCactus it is deemed ‘unofficial’ due to the fact that they haven’t officially released it themselves: The “patch 1.06″ is not an EA/Maxis product. Please exercise caution and only download content from sources you trust. If you install this patch, you will have an unsupported build of the game, which may mean you won’t be able to get help from CS in the future. This patch will allow you to play with the new parts in game, but you will not be able to publish them because it does not grant the entitlement necessary for publication. Rest assured that I haven’t modified it or touched it in any way whatsoever.
  • PC Instructions: Install the patch using the setup.exe installer.
  • Mac Instructions (or if you can’t get the PC version to install): Take the BP2_Data.package file and install it like a mod
  • Users are reporting you cannot share these creatures by the official exchange due to a lock issue. However it has been reported that you can still share them by posting the PNG file – just not to the official site. This may be fixed when EA releases the patch on their website and removes the lock code.
  • Installing GA after installing the Dr Pepper parts pack is unsupported. Click here to find out more about how to fix your game issues if you’ve followed this unsupported path.
  • Buy a Dr. Pepper if they are sold in your area to support them.

Spore Patch Version 1.05.1

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Creator: Maxis
Source: SporePrograms

(145 MB – PC Only) To get the patch, simply launch Spore. PC players will need to have EADM installed. If you didn’t install the EADM when you installed Spore, you can download it here. This patch is available for PC.

Fixed Issues

  • Object orientation near water or lava can appear incorrectly when Playing or Testing an Adventure.
  • Fixes a crash in the Building Creator when holding Ctrl or Shift and moving a part.

Spore Patch Version 1.05

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Creator: Maxis
Source: SporePrograms

(150MB – PC Only) To get the patch, simply launch Spore. PC players will need to have EADM installed. If you didn’t install the EADM when you installed Spore, you can download it here. This patch is available for PC.

Improvements

  • Asymmetry is now available for creatures! Details on new features for Creatures and Vehicles can be found here.
  • This patch fixes several crashes in Space Game.
  • Many tuning improvements to Space Game, including reduced disaster rates at all levels of difficulty, adjustments to Hard Mode, increased limits on concurrent trade routes, as well as changes to tool unlocks for the Knights.
  • Creator Lineage appears correctly for all creation types shared after this patch is installed.
  • Cheat is included that permits Creators to export creatures in Collada format for use in Maya. Creators must acknowledge and accept a Tools EULA to perform this operation. An additional cheat has been provided to enable highest quality textures to appear on vehicles, where it is supported by user hardware.
  • Fixed a problem where creations would go missing if a user quits the game in any way while downloads are in progress.
  • Fixed a bug where achievements were disappearing.
  • Fixed a bug where some Sporepedia cards had corrupted backgrounds.
  • Fixed a problem in Space where some Grox planets were unreachable.
  • YouTube movies now publish as public

Galactic Adventures Improvements

  • This patch must be installed again after installing Galactic Adventures, even if you have installed this patch previously.
  • You can now place the avatar, NPCs, and handheld objects on top of air, land, and sea vehicles in the Adventure Creator. Get more info here.
  • Improvements are made to the Adventure Creator, including right-click camera behavior, and User Interface enhancements.
  • In EP1 open gates were not working correctly when they were disguised
  • Some customer-reported crashes in Galactic Adventures have been fixed.

What’s new with Asymmetry:

Get all the details on the new asymmetry features here!

What’s new with vehicle/creature interactions:

  • You can now place the avatar, NPCs, and handheld objects on top of air, land, and sea vehicles in the GA editor
  • Creatures will stick to the vehicle, and want to face the original direction they were placed with, while objects will tend to fall off

Caveats:

  • For other players to benefit from riding on vehicles, they must install patch 5; in some cases, they may fail the level, or may not be able to complete it without updating
  • There is an invisible shell around vehicles, to reduce physical complexity; players should choose their vehicle shapes carefully if they want it to look good when a creature walks on it
  • To guarantee an NPC stays put on a vehicle, set their behavior to stay still
  • Handheld objects placed on vehicles will stay on for a bit, but will fall off
  • Air vehicles are very sensitive to wander mode; set air vehicles to path mode, especially if you want creatures to ride them, or they may be thrown off
  • Air vehicles may damage some riding NPCs if they travel very fast; to avoid this, set the vehicle to be on the same team as the NPCs, or set the NPCs to be invincible

More detailed info on fixes & features in Patch 5

Important Note: While several crashes were fixed, as noted below, there may have been more than one root cause for similarly appearing crashes. If you’re still seeing one of the issues below after patch 5, please let us know.

  • Fix: Changing the icons of certain adventures causes them to not upload properly.
  • Fix: Possible invalid preferences file could be generated by patch4, causing game to not start.
  • Fix: If Patch4 is installed to a PC that is Japanese environment, the entered password is not valid and cannot login.
  • Fix: Sporecast assets go missing if user quits game in any way while download is in progress.
  • Fix for occasional crash: Entering planet view on any planet, especially enemy planet
  • Fix for occasional crash: Trying to leave planet view, especially the home planet, especially if there was just an attack and buildings were rebuilt
  • Fix for occasional crash: Loading saved game in Space stage
  • Fix for occasional crash: Entering solar view from galaxy view on NPC system
  • Fix for occasional crash: Galaxy view traveling to a new star by clicking on it
  • Fix for occasional crash: Entering planet view on a Wildlife Sanctuary, especially after loading a saved game
  • Fix for occasional crash: Game crashes when terraforming using Staff Of Life
  • Fix: Entering Creature accessory editor from Tribe stage, Civ Stage, or Space stage could cause a freeze on several machines
  • Fix: In Civ stage with tutorials/hints disabled, after cut scene after selecting city hall game freezes
  • Fix: Lineages don’t always show correct parent creations
  • Fix: Certain sporepedia cards show corrupted backgrounds
  • Fix: Unable to reach Grox worlds in some Space stage scenarios
  • Fix for occasional crash: Quickly pressing esc. to skip cinematic after avatar dies results in crash
  • New: Lineage is displayed for all Asset Types
  • Fix: Adventure Creator: In EP1 open gates were not working correctly when they were disguised.
  • Fix for occasional crash: The ship versions of the game crash on exit
  • Fix for occasional crash: The game crashes on load when the lighting settings are defaulted to medium or 2
  • Fix for occasional crash: Unplugging earphones or speakers while in play mode cause spore to crash on some soundcards with Windows Vista.
  • Fix for occasional crash: When exiting to the Galaxy game entry without saving Tribe game crashes
  • Fix for occasional crash: Crash occurs when leaving planet in Space stage.
  • Fix for occasional crash: Crash occurs when zooming into certain rare solar systems once they are ready to be purchased
  • Feature: All building and vehicle textures available in building/vehicle/ufo editors without having to use the “paint like” button.
  • Cheat is included that permits Creators to export creatures in Collada format for use in Maya. Creators must acknowledge and accept a Tools EULA to perform this operation. An additional cheat has been provided to enable highest quality textures to appear on vehicles, where it is supported by user hardware.
  • And more!

Notes on the Collada Export Cheat:

Creatures exported with the new Collada exporter will automatically have diffuse map, normal map, and spec map applied to them when imported into Maya, 1 step!

  • In the Creature Editor, with the creature ready switch to Paint Mode, name the creature, if it doesn’t already have one
  • Open the cheat window.
  • Type: colladaexport
  • Accept the EULA
  • The file path to the exported creature will appear in the cheat window, ending with .dae

Installing Galactic Adventures after Installing Patch 5

If you have already installed patch 5 to your core game, then install Galactic Adventures, you will need to reinstall patch 5. If you are online and running EADM, your EADM will prompt you to install again. If you no longer have EADM, you can download it here.

Troubleshooting problems can be resolved over at the Sporums

Spore Patch Version 1.04

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Creator: Maxis
Source: SporePrograms

(80MB – PC Only) To get the patch, simply launch Spore. PC players will need to have EADM installed. If you didn’t install the EADM when you installed Spore, you can download it here. This patch is available for PC.

Features

  • Buildings have high quality textures in the game like they do in the Editor, if display settings are on High.
  • Fixes occasional corrupted backgrounds on Sporepedia Cards.
  • Includes ongoing improvements in animation to be more responsive to weapons placed anywhere on a Creature’s body.
  • Increases the number of “charges” of Space Tools Player can purchase in a single transaction.
  • Increases the range and damage for turrets defending against enemy spacecraft
  • Enables Player to reach all Grox worlds
  • Fixes a bug with the Terraform Tutorial Mission not being complete-able for all planet T-Scores by giving four basic tools to change score in any direction.
  • Improves general performance across the entire game
  • Improved searching in Sporepedia
  • Allows download of creations from website directly to game
  • YouTube movies publish as private

Troubleshooting problems can be resolved over at the Sporums

Spore Patch Version 1.03

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Creator: Maxis
Source: SporePrograms

(106MB – PC Only) To get the patch, simply launch Spore. PC players will need to have EADM installed. If you didn’t install the EADM when you installed Spore, you can download it here. This patch is available for PC.

Maxis wants to thank you by giving you some free parts in the Creature Creator. They’ve created 24 new exoskeleton limbs! You can combine them with parts from Creepy & Cute Parts Pack to create new, awesome creatures.

Features

  • Fix for esc key not bringing up Options in Galaxy Game Entry
  • Fix for creator backgrounds appearing on small sporepedia cards
  • Update to help keep achievements on the server in sync with achievements in the game

New Exoskeleton Limbs

  • Arm Plated
  • Spiker
  • Lesser Tubercle
  • Delta Point
  • Sinew Slug
  • Brawned
  • Tendonikes
  • Fleshed
  • Deltoid Tuberosity
  • Humorous Humerus
  • Khourtier
  • Holiarm
  • Locust Legs
  • Plated Muscle
  • Spikependage
  • Armored Bones
  • Bugleg
  • Grouchyspike
  • Centilegs
  • Layered Limb
  • Thighboned
  • Grasshopper
  • Femur Friday
  • Proprioceptive Flex

Spore Patch Version 1.02

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Creator: Maxis
Source: SporePrograms

(96MB – PC Only) To get the patch, simply launch Spore. PC players will need to have EADM installed. If you didn’t install the EADM when you installed Spore, you can download it here. This patch is available for PC.

The focus of this patch is to fix bugs that have been reported via our customer service department and directly from the Spore Community.

In addition, we’ve modified some gameplay tuning, added a way for you to select multiple items for deleting or banning while in Sporepedia and included a cool new planet style.

Features

  • Hold down the Control key in Sporepedia to select multiple creations for deleting or banning.
  • Hold down the Shift key in Sporepedia to select a range of creations for deleting or banning.
  • New planet style: Cubes.

Graphics/Aesthetics

  • Fix for game entry screen turning black when banning a creature in a Saved game.
  • Fixed issue with flora card in Sporepedia.
  • Space phase: Fixed graphic issue with water levels not updating properly with terraform tools so that visible water and atmosphere levels will now correspond in the Atmosphere monitor.
  • Fixed problems introduced via atmospheric and drought terraforming tools.
  • Improved gaits for multi-legged creatures.
  • Improved gaits for creatures with 2 limbs, but without any feet.

Audio

  • Space phase: Fixed missing VOX in some animations in Comm Screen.
  • Fixed audio issue with switching mode to 5.1 breaking music and VOX.
  • Fixed audio syncing issue when minimizing and/or maximizing Spore before opening video.
  • Fixed crash with city music player when Save and Load dialogs are present.
  • Fix for audio lag and missing models due background loading slow-down on certain single-processor machine configurations. This fix improved overall stability on this machine configuration.

Tuning

  • Space phase: Tuned relationship status to update in communication window after completing a mission.
  • Tribe phase: Tuned Normal difficulty mode to make social game easier.

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed the ESC key to consistently skip the Spore introduction movie.
  • Creators: YouTube video uploads are set to private. Go to YouTube.com and log in. Then go to Account >> My Videos to set them to Public if you want to share your videos with the world.
  • Creators: Fixed limb joints not being selectable behind other limbs.
  • Tribe phase: Fixed crash while harvesting fruit and fish.
  • Space phase: Fixed timing bug using Planet Buster during Grox invasion.
  • Space phase: Fixed destroyed turrets mission.
  • Space phase: Fixed crash when zooming out to full galactic view from the center of the galaxy.
  • Fixed for game entry screen staying zoomed in after deleting a game and entering/exiting Sporepedia.
  • Space phase: Fixed City Hall updating bug. City Hall will now update to correct version if player has chosen a new City Hall during the transition from Civilization phase to Space phase.
  • Space phase: Fixed Vehicles updating bug. Vehicles chosen in the Colony planner will now update without requiring the player to leave and re-enter a planet’s atmosphere.
  • Fixed crash when transitioning from Tribe phase to Civilization phase
  • Discontinued the Bad Baby Achievement.

Spore Patch Version 1.01

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Creator: Maxis
Source: SporePrograms

(92MB – PC Only) To get the patch, simply launch Spore. PC players will need to have EADM installed. If you didn’t install the EADM when you installed Spore, you can download it here. This patch is available for PC.

The focus of this patch is to fix some bugs that have been reported and to respond to feedback we’ve been seeing from the community about tuning and stability. We managed to squeak in a few fun things too; there’s a cool cheat that allows you to turn your creature into a blocky representation of themselves, a new “inspection” feature for the creature creator to browse the parts stats that you have applied to your creature, and the much-requested “evoadvantage” cheat – you’ll now be able to start a new creature game with a more evolved creature of your choice!

Features

  • New Cheat: “evoadvantage”. Enter this cheat when are starting a new Creature game to choose any creature from the Sporepedia. Start a new game with one of your more evolved creatures!
  • Display part statistics when you are in Build mode. Rollover any part and hold down the ‘i’ key.
  • New Cheat: “blocksmode”. Turns creatures into their blocky representations.
  • More style filters. Open the cheat window and type: “stylefilter -microscope” or “stylefilter -norainbows” or “stylefilter -nextgen” to see the new styles
  • Added 70 new planet scripts with a low terraform score, especially of the “hot and high atmosphere” type

Graphics/Aesthetics

  • Animation improvements
  • Improved the planets fogging, blooming and lighting
  • Fixed animation issues with tool handling, hand walking and some of the more oddly shaped creatures

Tuning

  • Creature phase: Improved the pacing towards the end of the game, and increased the challenge in Normal and Hard modes.
  • Tribe phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
  • Civilization phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
  • Space phase: Made Empires in Easy and Normal modes demand reasonable amounts of money in exchange for peace and adjust the level of punishment if the player doesn’t pay
  • Space phase: Made disasters less likely to occur in Easy and Normal modes and increased the time between each attack from the enemy empire when the player is at war.

Miscellaneous

  • Creature phase: Improved the way posse members behave during threatening situations and fights.
  • Space phase: Made finding your home world and colonies easier in the Galactic view.
  • Tribe phase: Made it so that tribe members can travel on steep hills if they need to do so now, but their speed will be reduced a lot.
  • Fixed an issue with attacks not working on some bigger animals and larger animals not dying correctly
  • Fixed collect mission not completing correctly when all parts have been collected
  • Fixed problems with the “Rolling Thunder” and “Déjà Vu” achievements not being awarded as they should
  • Fixed floating parts not being deducted from the budget when loaded into creator
  • Fixed an issue with the rotation rings not resizing correctly when a part was resized and improved their look
  • Fixed an issue where the terraforming score of planet could differ when revisiting a solar system
  • Fixed the keyboard controls for zoom & pitch in the Colony Planner not working properly
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when watching an epic creature attack a city
  • Fixed some issues where the game would freeze when using the Creature Tweaker tool or when capturing a planet in solar view
  • Fixed an issue where not all tribe members would obey the raid order when a large group was ordered to raid
  • Fixed an issue where banning a creation from one of your other saved games would black out the main menu

Spore SecuROM De-Authorization Tool

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Creator: EA
Source: EA

Spore was one of the many EA PC games that was released after May 2008 and allowed users to “authorize” up to five computers to play the games at the same time (in other words, it had SecuROM). Users can then play the game on any authorized computer they choose. If your computer is authorized to play any of these EA games, you can manage your computer authorizations using EA game-specific de-authorization tools.

Once de-authorized, a machine “slot” will be freed up and can be re-used on another computer. De-authorization does not uninstall the game, however, so if you decide you want to re-authorize your computer later, all you have to do is re-launch the game.