The bad cracks / 100% working games thread

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by kremiso

i presume a bad translation here
deepl translated in this way the italian 'è tutta farina del suo sacco'

all the credit for this find go to CFou! is probably better

"toute la farine dans son sac" Kremiso ?

[kremiso]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

"toute la farine dans son sac" Kremiso ?

I must remember not to try to translate local idioms

[TCD]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

"toute la farine dans son sac" Kremiso ?

"All the flour in his bag" sounds a lot better than "100% work of his sack"

[CFou!]

not exacly a bad crack
but but a flawed crack because the crackers of the time did not take the time to decrypt the game loader...

Indeed all Hoversprint cracked versions works only on 68000

But Hoversprint crack for 68010+ support (disk1) done by CFou! on 11/2022

Indeed Loader is decrypted to work on 68010 and above! and trackdisk protection is removed of course.

This work has been needed for WHDLoad's patch soon released.

Indeed loader used self-modifyng code, trace and illegal interupt to hide code (but working only on 68000....)

ADF with crack in TheZone!
Enjoy

[Crashdisk]

Without contradicting you, there has long been a hack of the FLT crack that disables the 68020 cache and allows the game to run on A1200.
In any way, thank you! I added your version in TOSEC (and your cracked version of The Oath)

[CFou!]

Originally Posted by Crashdisk

Without contradicting you, there has long been a hack of the FLT crack that disables the 68020 cache and allows the game to run on A1200.
In any way, thank you! I added your version in TOSEC (and your cracked version of The Oath)

deactivating the cache is not enough the launch decryption code because the decryption is done by false illegal instructions which on 68020+ correspond to existing CPU instructions....
therefore the decryption will crash on any CPU greater than a 68010...

[Crashdisk]

I don't understand something then! At what point does the decoding take place? Why can I run the FLT version of the game on an A1200 configuration just by disabling the cache? An emulation problem?

[dabba]

Originally Posted by CFou!

not exacly a bad crack
but but a flawed crack because the crackers of the time did not take the time to decrypt the game loader...

Speaking of loaders:
The Skid Row release of Gremlins II is playable, but during the loading pauses the disk drive always moves back and forth from/to track 40. That causes a somehow characteristic loading sound, but protracts the loading times.

The Oracle release and the original load faster.

[dabba]

Originally Posted by squirminator2k

I have a copy of Atomino and it's been some years since I played the game so I downloaded an ADF of the game. Awful crack, it was... the opening intro gave instructions in both English and German sayign that there was nothing they could do to circumvent the copy protection (wow, great job guys!) but after entering the wrong code three times you could press the HELP key and it would run fine. ...

Originally Posted by andreas

BWAAAHAAHA... that was Endless Stupi...eh Piracy.
For the record, there's now a QUBE crack in TOSEC which should do the job nicely. And it's in English, not in German

Nonetheless, I've tried the EP crack for fun's sake - and hmmm .. it works!
(maybe only with the emulator? )
The password check only appears to be done in MODE B, never in MODE A (as far as I tested). The most astonishing thing is that after entering three WRONG passwords, the game continues as if nothing had happened! I did not even press HELP to "awaken the sleeping program".

For the sake of completeness (and nerdiness):

The Endless Piracy release of Atomino does work somehow:
If you play the original on mode B and fail the copy protection check than you can still play. But the game will not remove complete sets of atoms (if you do not know the game: That is like playing Tetris but the full lines do not vanish).

Pressing the HELP key in the EP release lets the game "forget" that you failed the check and remove the full sets.

[shelter]

I’m curious why the protection in Fascination is partly there in the WHDLoad version, why not accept any answer instead of just ”3”? I thought my install was broken because it crashes if you pick something else. I got a bit confused about it because the first time I started, it worked but that's only because I pressed the right number by pure luck.

[kremiso]

Originally Posted by shelter

I’m curious why the protection in Fascination is partly there in the WHDLoad version, why not accept any answer instead of just ”3”? I thought my install was broken because it crashes if you pick something else. I got a bit confused about it because the first time I started, it worked but that's only because I pressed the right number by pure luck.

i agree for the very dull protection part
three attempts and just one number (from 0 to 9 iirc) to guess

a couple of other Coktel games had it too

[PascalDe73]

For the Game Crack by Linel there is a problem with Amiga 500 ECS.

All cracked ADF and the IPF files have the same problem : Just after the intro the screen is scramble.

It was the same problem with another game by Lined "Eliminator" but the ADF corrected this problem.

It will be great if someone can create a corrected ADF version about about this problem.

Many Thanks

[Don_Adan]

I have fixed Crack version for Kickstart 1.3 ECS.
But no access to my collection.
If my memory not failed, I have all kickstart 1.2 OCS games fixed to work for kickstart 1.3.
Including Double Dragon 2, ShadowGate, Seven Cities Of Gold etc.

[PascalDe73]

Originally Posted by Don_Adan

I have fixed Crack version for Kickstart 1.3 ECS.
But no access to my collection.
If my memory not failed, I have all kickstart 1.2 OCS games fixed to work for kickstart 1.3.
Including Double Dragon 2, ShadowGate, Seven Cities Of Gold etc.

Hi,

Finally With Your Informations, I found in Turran Tosec FTP a Working version in ADF for ECS Amiga

Crack (1988)(Linel)[cr][f ECS].adf

Many Thanks,

Pascal