Working Sierra Soccer

[acd2001]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

I'll take this one on chaps, expect a 100% version later on today

But...have you released cracked version ? It's 19 september today and i can't find it

[EreWeGo]

Originally Posted by acd2001

But...have you released cracked version ? It's 19 september today and i can't find it

I'm sure Galahad will let us know once done, will be awesome to have a fully-working WHDLoad version of the game.

[Shatterhand]

cool, I am so glad I actually posted this, now we will finally have this working.

And stunts, amazing game indeed. I played lots .of friendly games with friends, everyone liked the game, but the "random resets" made we give up the game after a while.

And please, don't be pissed at me because I pirated your game... where I live, it was pirate or nothing.. there was no way to buy original Amiga games here back at time - or at least no easy way for a 12 years old kid

[lolafg]

up

[Galahad/FLT]

Christ i've got a short memory, i'll finish it off eh?

[EreWeGo]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

Christ i've got a short memory, i'll finish it off eh?

lol,

that'd be awesome Galahad.

Man, soon-to-have working Sierra Soccer and SWOS...what a way to start the year!

[StingRay]

use sierra_soccer___world_challenge_edition_(1994)(sierra)(m3)(disk_1_of_2)[cr_flt]-amiga, it is cracked correctly (the name is wrong, it is actually disk 2 of the game!).

[ascp]

Thanks StingRay, your'e on a roll. Hope it continues a long time, so many games and demos still needs some love and care (that is whdloadpatches)

[AlessandroZ]

Originally Posted by stunts

The first disk is irrelevant, you could run the game just using disk 2 from recollection.

True! I've played the game to final but at the end loading screen appears and game freeze.
My config:
WinUAE 2.1.0
CPU 68000
Chipset OCS
Rom KS 1.3
Ram Chip 2mb slow 1mb Z2 Fast 8 mb
kickstart_rom v1.3
MMU: None
FPU: None
CPU Emulation Speed: Approximate A500/A1200 or cycle-exact
CPU Frequency: 2x A500
Cache Size: 0MB
Adv. Chipset: Compatible Settings

[Hewitson]

WinUAE 2.1.0???

[AlessandroZ]

Originally Posted by Hewitson

WinUAE 2.1.0???

Yeah! Instead if i run it on WinUAE 4.3.0 64-bit, game crashes during the first match after few min. playable

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by AlessandroZ

True! I've played the game to final but at the end loading screen appears and game freeze.
My config:
WinUAE 2.1.0
CPU 68000
Chipset OCS
Rom KS 1.3
Ram Chip 2mb slow 1mb Z2 Fast 8 mb
kickstart_rom v1.3
MMU: None
FPU: None
CPU Emulation Speed: Approximate A500/A1200 or cycle-exact
CPU Frequency: 2x A500
Cache Size: 0MB
Adv. Chipset: Compatible Settings

Originally Posted by Hewitson

WinUAE 2.1.0???

Not to mention...

"Ram Chip 2mb slow 1mb Z2 Fast 8 mb" for an A500 game?

...but we've already discussed this in the Config for Sierra Soccer thread.

[AlessandroZ]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Not to mention...

"Ram Chip 2mb slow 1mb Z2 Fast 8 mb" for an A500 game?

...but we've already discussed this in the Config for Sierra Soccer thread.

Ok! But i've played the game to final macht, no crash!
At the end loading screen appears and game freezes.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by AlessandroZ

Ok! But i've played the game to final macht, no crash!
At the end loading screen appears and game freezes.

Still a very weird configuration that you've set; and defintely not required...

...and it's not the reason why you managed to get to the final match and no crash.

Crash is totally random at different inverals, you were just lucky, see these comments from the original game author in this thread:

Originally Posted by stunts

Hi Shatterhand, I am the author of Sierra Soccer. I wrote some very sneaky anti-pirate code to deliberately rebooted the computer after a certain amount of gameplay so it allowed people to play the game, but not to get all the way to the finals so it sounds like whoever pirated the game did not spot my anti-piracy devices well enough.
I'm glad you enjoyed the game though and are playing it again. I hope you had success in finding a working version, sadly I do not have a working version to give away.

Originally Posted by stunts

Nope, it can certainly be cracked if you understand how it works.

So what I did was to put a CRC check around the code to display the security flag screen when the game booted. If that code was tampered with (which a hacker would have circumnavigated) I littered my code (and graphic data) with calls to check on that CRC throughout the game. If it found the CRC was incorrect, I set a flag and if that was set, I randomly rebooted some time into the game. It was very simple (although creating a perfect CRC when the code could be loaded into anywhere in memory) wasn't easy, but once it worked, it was almost undetectable because it was silent.

Anyway, look in the other thread at my latest reply: Config for Sierra Soccer

Test that version