Question for Crackers

[LeCaravage]

Hey,

I play Indianapolis 500 and after a lot of parameters tweaking, I manage to reach a quite fast car (March/Cosworth 39,25s my best time). Very cool game indeed, my favourite racing game on stock A500.
Unhappily, my game disk crashed. I use the cracked version by I.B.M (blue screen at bootblock load). I didn't made any backup of disquette. So, I've lost all my March Cosworth set-up. I need to recover slot #1 and #2.
Is it possible to copy a sector(s)/track(s) to recover my car settings ? If yes, any clue what are the sectors ?

[alexh]

Originally Posted by LeCaravage

Unhappily, my game disk crashed.

You mean corrupted?

Originally Posted by LeCaravage

Is it possible to copy a sector(s)/track(s) to recover my car settings?

Back up the disk now? Transfer it to the PC. Compare to known good version of same disk?

Originally Posted by LeCaravage

I use the cracked version by I.B.M (blue screen at bootblock load)

I couldn't find any direct reference to this but there are lots of different ones here :

https://www.planetemu.net/roms/commo...mes-adf?page=I

[LeCaravage]

@alexh : I was wondering if it is possible to copy again the same cracked version (for instance : the Angels, Defjam, Genesis) on a non corrupted disquette. Then, copy a specific sector/track from my corrupted disquette to the good one. So I could (may be ?) restore my lost my car settings.

Edit: the game seems to use trackloading, but I'm not sure.

Edit':My very first message is unclear

[Don_Adan]

For same crack disk version, this is possible, if car settings data are undamaged.
Create disk image from cracked version.
Use DIC from WHDload package.
Create disk image from version you are using.
Use DIC again.
Use FileMaster 2.2 (Split/Cut and Join options) for creating disk image (ADF).
Write this image on good diskette.
Use ITD from WHDload package.

[alexh]

Originally Posted by LeCaravage

I was wondering if it is possible to copy again the same cracked version on a non corrupted disk. Then, copy a specific sector/track from my corrupted disk to the good one. So I could (may be ?) restore my lost my car settings.

I believe that is possible for a NON DOS disk that had trackloading.

Identifying which tracks/sectors contain the save game use WinUAE and a good version of the same crack and look at the tracks/sectors being accessed?

Then use Don's method above.

[LeCaravage]

@Don_Adan : Many thanks for your info help. For PC<->Amiga transfert I use Greaseweazle.
I just did test on my faulty disq, 2 sectors are bad on track #53.
Will try to transfert this specific track from bad to good image.

@alexh: I was writing while you posted

[alexh]

Originally Posted by LeCaravage

Will try to transfer this specific track from bad [disk] to good image.

I would recommend doing it the other way round