PSA for anyone trying to get this to run on a Windows 10 tablet without a keyboard and mouse.
The original game opened and worked fine with just a touchscreen, this game however on trying to run it for the first time spat out an error that translated into 'no input devices detected'. After searching for solutions online that all failed to work (reapplying the crack, using a different crack, turning on 'mouse keys' etc.) it seemed the only way to get it to work would be to plug in a keyboard and mouse, which with only 1 USB type-c port on my tablet would have involved buying a dongle or a bluetooth device.
However as a last ditch effort I used a keyboard/mouse sharing program, namely Input Director, to share the peripherals across my main pc and tablet, the game opened and even more surprisingly continued to open even after shutting off the program and restarting the tablet.
TLDR: Plug in a keyboard/mouse if you can or use a software keyboard/mouse share program like Input Director once, then the game will work just fine with a touchscreen