Football Director II dongle support
 

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Can the dongle be supported please?

This does not seem to use simple check like other two games that can be found in about 2 minutes. After 5.0 is out.

Really, don't know what's so special about this one they would beef up the dongle check?

Will wait for it to be supported, thanks Toni!

Done (winuae.7z). It is again almost identical dongle, only bits swapped.

Check code probably is identical to previous games, main difference is language. Previous games used assembly code, this was some kind of compiled basic which looks extremely ugly, very long and is almost impossible to follow quickly.

I decided to assume dongle is almost same as used in previous games and simply brute forced all possible combinations (16+16).

Strangely this dongle check code simply loops until it gets correct answer. This made brute forcing too simple and was very quickly done.

Previous games reset the system if test failed too many times. (EDIT: maybe used basic didn't have any way to crash/reset the system..)

Awesome :bowdown

The game is written in HiSoft Basic so probably why it's ugly!

Thanks for supporting this :great