Body Blows OCS/ECS Enhanced Version
 

Hi there,
I recently read somewhere that Team17, after a while that Body Blows was released, gave the chance to the owners of the original game to upgrade their copy to an enhanced version.
The owner was asked to send them the first disk (labelled "Boot disk") and something like 2.90 pounds and they would have received back a new disk with the upgrades (mostly graphics but also some more options in the choice of the characters in "story mode").


Does anyone have this version?


I've looked for it anywhere on the Internet without finding anything... I also bought on Ebay some original disks where the first one was labelled "Disk 1" instead of "Boot Disk" in the hope that it was the enhanced version but unfortunately the disks I bought were irremediably broken.
Any info would be much appreciated... thanks!

Body blows V1 has a madtering error on track 5.0
Team 17 fixed this with Body blows v2.
Adding shadows for characters, and other things.

What about the v1 version with bad tracks on 72.1 and 73.1 on Disk 1, are they genuinely bad or not used?

no, just some sectors not formated because there was no data.

The last RAWDIC imager load only present sectors for this track.
See source code of imager here:
http://www.whdload.de/games/BodyBlows.lha

;======================================================================

; read track with missing sectors

_RN_PDos_11sect

moveq #7,d4 ;d4 = Sector to read by track
moveq #0,d7 ;d7 = Sector complete counter
move.l a0,a5 ;a5 = MFM data
move.l a1,a2 ;a2 = Destination
bra _NextSector

; read normal tracks

_RN_PDos

moveq #12,d4 ;d4 = Sector to read by track
moveq #0,d7 ;d7 = Sector complete counter
move.l a0,a5 ;a5 = MFM data
move.l a1,a2 ;a2 = Destination

_NextSector

cmpi.w #$4891,(a5) ;Check for word $4891 on each
bne _NoSector ;sector boundary

lea 2(a5),a0
move.l (a0)+,d0
move.l (a0)+,d1
and.l #$55555555,d0
and.l #$55555555,d1
add.l d0,d0
or.l d1,d0

move.l d6,d1 ;Disk key
bset #31,d1
eor.l d1,d0
move.l d0,d3 ;Checksum
swap d0
lsr.w #8,d0

lea $a(a5),a0
bsr _GetChecksum
cmp.w d0,d3
bne _ChecksumError
move.l a2,a1
bsr _DecodeData
lea $200(a2),a2

adda.w #$40a,a5
move.w (a5)+,d0
moveq #0,d1
moveq #7,d2

_Unwind

roxl.w #2,d0
roxl.b #1,d1
dbf d2,_Unwind

add.w d1,d1
adda.l d1,a5
addq.w #1,d7 ;Check if we have decoded
; cmpi.w #12,d7 ;all 12 sectors
cmp.w d4,d7 ;all 12 sectors
bne _NextSector

_OK

moveq #IERR_OK,d0
rts

Thanks, so only v1 with a bad Track 5.0 is the genuinely bad one!

Thanks for the info... I didn't know that there were bad tracks... anyway... the body blows v2 version is the one in the SPS database, right?

What about the label on first disk of the game? I've always seen the label "Boot Disk" except for the copy I bought a few weeks ago that is labelled "Disk 1". Was this the v2 version and the one labelled "Boot Disk" the v1 version?

SPS #1147 is v2, says so on the SPS website!

I think the original 'Big Box' releases say Amiga Version 1 or Amiga Version 2 on the boot disk, the smaller budget square box release doesn't mention any version, but being a re-release you would think it was v2!

yes exactly.

You guys are right, there were two versions of first disk labelled "Boot Disk", one said "Amiga Version 1" and the other said "Amiga Version 2".
Body Blows Disk Scans
I don't want to be pedantic but what I am asking, if anyone knows it, is if the first disk with label "Disk 1" (see pictures below) I found on Ebay is the one that you would have received sending the original "Boot Disk" back to Team 17 as wrote in this article where the author speaks about an enhanced version and not about "version 2".
https://i.postimg.cc/PpjYbtv9/photo-...3-13-08-13.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/phJ8qgDT/photo-...3-13-13-01.jpg
I'm wondering if in the disk I found (that I never saw anywhere else) there was originally the "version 2" or another version of the game... :confused

Those disks look like the budget re-release:

https://i.postimg.cc/Gt408GkZ/Body-Blows.jpg

Have you any way of dumping them, Kryoflux/Supercard Pro?

exactly. JurassicMan, please send me the dump, i will make IPF out of your disks :)

@BarryB
Thank! This is the first time I see a picture of the budget re-release.

@dlfrsilver
Unfortunately I can't dump the disks, mate. :(
There were heavy scratches on the surface of the magnetic disks) and I already replaced them with some good ones.
I tried to read the first disk but as soon as I inserted the disk into the drive a terrible noise came off my floppy drive and I've immediately reset the computer to prevent further issues.

Does anyone have these floppies?