Arabian Nights (AGA fix)

[Superman]

I have a crystal crack on floppy disk that I have had for over 20 years. Just tried it on my A1200 and it plays fine.

I have made an ADF of the disks and attached it in case anyone wants to try it.

[DrBong]

Originally Posted by Sandro

I found it
is a hardisk version not a floppy version
and nothing says related to AGA fix

Originally Posted by DrBong

Try reading the file_id.diz

Originally Posted by Sandro

what says in file id diz is fake, read what says in the intro

That's not what you said in your OP. You said there was "nothing saying that it related to an AGA fix". It does in the file_id.diz, which I'm not sure that you read.

fact is this game is 100% AGA compatible, it doesn't work only on machines which have clock related issues ( commonly called timing issues)

Bullshit! The original release of Arabian Nights V1.00 that I upped to the Zone doesn't work on my A1200/030 (rev 1D1, so no serious timing issues), even with degrading.

The game boots until the screen where you're asked whether you want to skip the animations or not. If you do, it then shows the titlescreen and loads for a bit, does a disk check and prompts for the language you want to play the game in. After you select the language, the game craps out and shows an "out of memory" message screen from Krisalis. It allows you to retry by pressing the left mouse button, but the same screen will keep popping up.

If you don't have the originals of games, then please stop guessing about their behaviour on real hardware. Arabian Nights is not 100% AGA compatible (and AGA = A1200 and A4000 in this instance BTW). If it was, then there wouldn't have been much need for an AGA fixed version to be released by crackers or the WHDLoad team to have patched it years ago! Also, it could be that V1.01 was released to improve AGA compatibility. I won't know for sure until I test it.

[Shatterhand]

This is going to be kinda OT, but I just want to say this is one of the finest games I ever played. I find funny how this was supposed to be a "filler" release from Krisalis while waiting for Soccer Kid to be ready, but this is actually way better than Soccer Kid. This game is freaking awesome.

I hope this HD release works with my 2mb A600.

[mai]

v1.01 crack is in the zone, needs playtesting!

[dlfrsilver]

yes arabian nights is a very good game, made by competent engineers

[BarryB]

If you type simeon on the title screen (Simeon Pashley was the programmer) it enables cheat mode, the screen will flash red to indicate it's active, you can then press these keys in game:

Power sword - [F1]
Toggle PAL or NTSC display - [F10]
Level skip - [Tab]
Slow motion - H
English - E
French - F
German - G
Dutch - D
Invincibility, unlimited keys - [Left Amiga]

This info from Lemon Amiga

[Shatterhand]

Originally Posted by Sandro

I found it
is a hardisk version not a floppy version
and nothing says related to AGA fix

Thank you A LOT FOR THIS, it works on my A600 setup

[mai]

@DrBong:
have forgotten to saY thank you for v1.00.
This helped me to apply crack to v1.01.

[BarryB]

Aye, byte compare shows 5 bytes to change

[PortuguesePilot]

Originally Posted by mai

v1.01 crack is in the zone, needs playtesting!

Tested on real-life A500. Works! Thanks!

Just waiting for my new Gotek to test it on an A1200 as well. Stay tuned.

[BarryB]

There is only one protection check, right after finishing level 1, using the level skip there are no more protection checks after this! That's if the cheat doesn't disable further checks of course

[mai]

Originally Posted by BarryB

Aye, byte compare shows 5 bytes to change

Indeed.
No need to be a cracker/coder, just comparing v1.00 executables(cracked and original), search for hex in v.101 and applying the values of cracked executable.

Originally Posted by PortuguesePilot

Just waiting for my new Gotek to test it on an A1200 as well. Stay tuned.

This was the original request - a version of Arabian Nights with protection check disabled, which works on AGA machines!
Although i already thought, that it is not needed anymore, since you have already different supposed working version found!

[PortuguesePilot]

It was and still is the original request. According to WinUAE, everything is now fixed, thanks to your crack and some of the several versions posted in this thread, but I'm still waiting to see if the ADF version loads on a real Amiga 1200, which until I get my new Gotek I cannot test.

Also, if someone is still interested, I found a way to play the two-disk floppy version with Cortex firmware. It's so simple that I'm baffled to why I hadn't tried it before. Just let the game load all the way up to the language selection menu and then, before choosing your language, change the disks. When you press fire, it will start reading disk 2 and load the game. Simple.

[Shatterhand]

Originally Posted by PortuguesePilot

It was and still is the original request. According to WinUAE, everything is now fixed, thanks to your crack and some of the several versions posted in this thread, but I'm still waiting to see if the ADF version loads on a real Amiga 1200, which until I get my new Gotek I cannot test.

Also, if someone is still interested, I found a way to play the two-disk floppy version with Cortex firmware. It's so simple that I'm baffled to why I hadn't tried it before. Just let the game load all the way up to the language selection menu and then, before choosing your language, change the disks. When you press fire, it will start reading disk 2 and load the game. Simple.

This is a precious tip I am happy running the game from HD now, but it's good to know

[mai]

Originally Posted by retrogamer

You can use any cracked version of Arabian Nights (Disk 2) to bypass the copy protection.

It works excellent with the uncracked ADF file Retroplay made for you

Originally Posted by PortuguesePilot

Indeed it works!

Meanwhile i am sure this is nonsens!
I have to post this to prevent confusion.

[PortuguesePilot]

Originally Posted by mai

Meanwhile i am sure this is nonsens!
I have to post this to prevent confusion.

Indeed I was too hasty in proclaiming victory, it seems. The fact was that I loaded the game and when I changed the v1.01 disk 1 to v1.00 disk 2, the game loaded into the first level. Since I always played with cracked disks - even back in the 90's - I didn't know that the manual protection was AFTER the first level (as in most games the manual protection is just before you start playing), the immediate absence of it made me thing it had worked. And since the manual protection occurs well into the game, I was under the impression that the code for it would be on disk 2, so to know that it worked with the v1.01 disk 1, I thought that the crack would "port" over as well.

I haven't (and won't) tested the uncracked disk again, but knowing now that the crack is applied in disk 1, I suppose that it won't work.

Lesson learned, though: one should not speak before testing all the way through.

[mai]

Originally Posted by PortuguesePilot

but knowing now that the crack is applied in disk 1,

Indeed, there cant be something crack related on disk 2, because crc32 of original v1.00 and v1.01 is the same as scene released v1.00 disk2.

[DrBong]

Originally Posted by Shatterhand

I just want to say this is one of the finest games I ever played. I find funny how this was supposed to be a "filler" release from Krisalis while waiting for Soccer Kid to be ready, but this is actually way better than Soccer Kid. This game is freaking awesome

Yes, very enjoyable game....and one of the most underrated Ami games IMHO too!

Originally Posted by mai

@DrBong:
have forgotten to saY thank you for v1.00.
This helped me to apply crack to v1.01.

No problems......glad you were able to put it to good use!

Have you noticed any differences between Arabian Nights V1.00 and V1.01?

Originally Posted by mai

No need to be a cracker/coder, just comparing v1.00 executables(cracked and original), search for hex in v.101 and applying the values of cracked executable.

Haha, good to see that you used a hex editor this time!

[Nibbler]

Originally Posted by mai

v1.01 crack is in the zone, needs playtesting!

Donsen´t work on Amiga CD32 with Shuttle ( or Elsat Promodule )

No matter, or Original CD/Disc or Cracked ... Always after "START" > Black Screen ( and no Music in the Intro )

Strange, Soccer Kid has the Same issue ( no music ) but the game works at least.

Will i ever be able to play Arabian Nights on the Amiga Cd32 Pro-Module?
Even WHDLOAD wont help ....

And why this/those title/s ? Arabian Nights is one of my favorites

[DrBong]

@Nibbler
Doesn't the regular CD32 version work on your set-up then?