Messages in game code for crackers

[fiath]

So Lords of The Rising Sun on Cinemaware's website is broken too?

[dirkies]

I guess not, aren't these images "lockpicked", so that they are not protected at all anymore? (probably original source discs, before protection routines were added)

[Duke]

Well the other games downloadable on the Cinemaware website match disks that are already in TOSEC (and were in TOSEC before there started to offer their games there) and are just cracks, so I guess the Lords of the Rising Sun version is no different...

[Critter]

Originally Posted by Uukrul

Dragon's Lair: Escape From Singe's Castle:

This one is pathetic (oh, please, please...)

"Once again, a small note to pirates and crackers: I thank you very much for delaying the release of DL1, but must once again ask you to please wait with Escape. We have tried to provide the Amiga community with the best possible game for your money (unlike many other companies), and hope that once again there will be enough sales into the future to support yet another game we are planning for the Amiga: TERMINATOR! Please consider delaying your release of Escape. As more and more quality companies leave the Amiga for the more profitable IBM, C64 and Nintendo markets, it is up to you, the users, to show which computer is truly Visionary. Randy "Irwin" Linden"

Randy Linden aka the guy behind PSX emu Bleem

wow whats randy doing these days? i must admit he's one of the best coders when it comes to copy-protection

[LaundroMat]

Originally Posted by Uukrul

As more and more quality companies leave the Amiga for the more profitable IBM, C64 and Nintendo markets

Surely no-one took that seriously, what with the "profitable C64 market"?

(Updated thanks to post below )

[Critter]

lol you quoted the wrong person. i never said that

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by dirkies

I remember Carrier Command locked up after 30 minutes if it detected the novella protection was missing, so Defjam rereleased it with a enter-whatever novella protection and this time it didn't crash. But the original was already copyable using XCOPY in Nibble 83 tracks mode, but then you needed the manual for novella protection.

Also, Lords of The Rising Sun had 2 protections, one of Rob Northern, successfully removed by Quartex, but there was a smart in-game protection that detected somehow if the protection was removed, and if so, you'd be all of a sudden (within 1 minute of gameplay in arcade mode) be visited by a hitman ninja, and you had no choice to escape and be shuriken'ed to death and amen, game over! The original never did this (I had it too, with the original you could play the awesome arcade battlescenes), the cracked version always did this, no way to play this game correctly! AFAIK, it was never successfully cracked, but is now free avail on cinemaware's website.

LZX compressor used initially a similar routine, but Jonathan Forbes told me he removed it later on, because those using a cracked version thought the software was buggy, while it was the copy protection that anonymously screwed things up, creating bad publicity.

and finally, but that's C64, The Last Ninja 2 or 3 (can't remember) had some real rude F word messages inside the binary for crackers, can't remember the wording tho'

Had an inbuilt copier. Hold down both mouse buttons whilst its loading, and a copier screen pops up that will make a backup of the game for you

[dirkies]

which game are you talking about? Carrier Command?

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by dirkies

which game are you talking about? Carrier Command?

Title of the message tells you what game !

[bobbybearing]

if not yet posted, in Jim Power :
"Yooooooh cracker, I think this is the lamest protection you have ever seen in your life !!! Sorry but I only have 5 min to put it !!! For my next game I will put a super one !!! Greetings to Vision Factory !!!"

(see Musashi's crack http://www.flashtro.com)

Edit: Ooops! Yes Flashtro

[mr_0rga5m]

http://www.flashtro.com

[Codetapper]

Dalek Attack
Frankie says :- Everybody knows, how to cook baked potatoes. Everybody knows which way the wind blows, But they still tell you.

Wacky Darts
Why the fuck do I (DEL) have to fix other peoples shitty games to work on all Amigas? Oh well! Thanks to Kris for the memkill info!

[andreas]

Wacky Darts: logically, I don't understand this bit.
Who is speaking there? Garry Hughes?
And (DEL): is it a swear word?!

[mr_0rga5m]

Originally Posted by andreas

And (DEL): is it a swear word?!

It hasnt been censored .. its exactly in the code (bootblock) as Codetapper pasted.

[Galahad/FLT]

Del is short for Derek Leigh Gilchrist, aka Del/Anarchy. Kris is also Kris/Anarchy

[thechap]

Got to say, this is one of the most interesting threads I have read (on any forum). Thanks for the insight.

Never realised there was such a game of Cat and Mouse between the programers and hackers. But it wasn't all bad, at least Quertex always told us to go out and buy the original if we liked the game!

[Tolismlf]

These guys (the programmers) were right after all. Just think that the Gameboy (4 grey color machine!) was supported a long time after the Amiga died. Why? Because there was no piracy at all.

[Enverex]

Yes, just look at all the other machines that were released to superscede the gameboy at the time.... oh wait...

[Codetapper]

One in French for a change! Just before the Cabal copylock:

celui qui crack Cabal est un ANE...!

I'm guessing that translates to something along the lines of "If you crack Cabal you're an ARSE!"

[dirkies]

nope, the French "ANE" means 'donkey' :-)