Messages in game code for crackers

[rasclaat]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

"Game dedicated to Jayne, with all my love 4ever - Simon Phipps 03/02/1989. U must be hacking to get here - All the best 2 U 4 the future."

Ha! There was a variant of this in the Amiga version of RD - I think it was just the second part of the message, or I only saw the second part of it. I think I was examining memory after a soft reset.

[Galahad/FLT]

"z-out (wargate) v1.01 by tobias binsack"

[CFou!]

Pink Panther

[mailman]

Risky Woods:

DOS qV? $I"< ,x N®?(€ € €??? "< %@ $,x N®?:%@ (%z 8 $&@%| ,5| "J,x N®?8B? $5| "J,x N®?8p KNu (C) 1990 Creepsoft ltd. & DINAMIC software. Designed and coded by Pablo Ariza. Hello, pirates. Please don't copy this game. It's my first Amiga game and I'd like to earn some money with it.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by mailman

Risky Woods:

Thank you I've added Pablo to the coding credits for the game on HOL.

[TCD]

Not from a cracker, but just found this in the 'Piracy on the High Seas' manual:

[redblade]

I'm glad that software put messages in their boot block. It would have been nice if it was a standard saying that this is a custom boot block needed for this game to run. I remember being 10 and destroying a trained copy of Golden Axe (With Dwarf buggy graphics) as I didn't know what type of boot block it was and I had just been blamed the day before for bring viruses to school, I didn't know what they were at the time.

Once I got a copy of LSD/Nuke, the amount of of my disks that had been infected by Saddam. I remember some later disks saying that it was not a virus and that it was indeed a custom loader.

[StingRay]

PROTECTION BY DATA DUPLICATION 23.11.87

A very simple protection, I might add.

[tywald]

Originally Posted by squirminator2k

I'm not much of a code digger - I wouldn't know where to start - but I do like looking at files that generally shouldn't be of any consequence, such as Startup-Sequences. You can sometimes find odd little messages in there, like this message in the Startup-Sequence for James Pond 2: Codename Robocod for the CD32:

Here is another one in the RoboCod file at 0x847 to 0xA24:

Oh. I'm sorry that RoboCod hasn't got more colours
but if I'd have gone to 8 planes it'd have been
_so_ slow. You should be grateful it runs so fast
(a lot faster than the A500 version)

Anyway, this is my first project at Millennium...
before this I used to program mainframes for a
building society...

Hope you enjoy the game! Now, stop looking through
my code. I'm not stupid enough to leave debug symbols
in, so you won't gain anything...
Dean Ashton, programmer, June 1993

[jotd]

Zool CD32 has symbols and so has Roadkill CD32... It helps a lot figuring out the problems of the game.

I love the way people protected their source code back in the day. Now most of them are lost... Good job.

[Nightshft]

Blitz-Turbo (copy program) by Power-Computing, which was recently zoned by Amigan123.

[breech]

Mad Professor Moriati

hello hacker fucker this is matt furniss heres the deal. if you hack this game,i will find you where ever you are and break your legs and thats a promise

Skate of the Art

main programming language: C - Manx Aztec C68K compiler, version 3.6a
* parts are written in 68000 machine code.

* all graphics were created in DeluxePaint V3.0 pal version by Joost Honig.

* the sprites were converted from ILBM (interleaved bitmap) graphics to
16 color attached sprites using SPRED v2.0 from the 1001 Software
Development Kit.

* The sprite animation was checked in SuperSpriteAnim from 1001 Software
Development. In this program we developed the sophisticated multiframe
animations of the several jumps, fall, acceleration etc. In this program
we can adjust the displaytime, height, colors, depth of every single
frame.

* the levels were designed in the 1001 Software Development Level Editor
written by the master programmer Ste..Ste..Ste..Steve vanderHorst.
(r.i.p. 1966-1988).

* all the data files are compressed using the 1001 Card Cruncher.
Original idea by TSI./1001. Converted to Amiga by Lord Blitter/BS1.
Normal size reduction is 25%-30%. Data are runtime de-compressed in less
than one second.

* The digitized samples were created with the custom designed 16/8 bits
CD digitizer. This hi-tech piece of equipment was specially constructed
by the 1001 Technical Support Group. Great work Gents and Lads !
Special thanks to Remco Borsato whose samples we didn't use.

* Hires black/white video digitizing was done by Arnold van Eersel. We are
very grateful to him for his support. Joost used these pictures as an
outline for the graphics, therefore they can't be distinguished as
digitized pictures any more.

* The music was created in SoundTracker v7.0 by D.O.C. Original program
by Karsten (Carsten ?) Obarski (Obaski ?). The music was composed and
produced by Frank van Eykelen (Erik's brother).

* Using Steve's VCR in the one-frame-display mode we discovered one
animation error. Finally we were convinced that this $1500 VCR is worth
its money (for us).

* A big fuck to all those people who said they were interested in buying
the game but didn't show up because they didn't have enough green.
(e.g. TopDown Development, Capital Software)
We don't want to be rude, but them guys are a BIG pain in our asses!

* If you are a hacker, then we know that you haven't bought this game.
Ofcourse you like this game and you know that we've put a lot of hours
in it. Show that you're a nice guy/girl and buy this game in your
computer shop. If you guys buy enough games, we might think about writing
a new game !

Erik van Eykelen (HACKTEC) 1001 fanmail also welcome!
Ilpenwaard 10 N O T R A D I N G / S W A P P I N G
1824 GA ALKMAAR
The Netherlands The dark ages are over !
072-612318 We see the (green) light now.

Joost Honig (HONEY)
Bovenweg 232 How's jail Willie Masolijn??? HA HA HA HA
1834 CR SINT-PANCRAS
The Netherlands Pecunia Non Olet !
02267-3488 Ceterum cencea cartaginum esse delendam !
Dulce et Decorum pro patria mori est

Bahama Islands we are coming !

Well anyway , now all you guys out there know what we,ve been doing for
the past few years !

NEVER FORGET : MORE THAN JUST A FAERYTALE !

COMING SOON FROM 1001 S.D. :STEVE'S ANTISPIRO
TSI.'S BABY BUG

1001 S.D. IS NOW AN OFFICIALLY COMPANY SPECIALIZED IN CAPS
THE : COMPUTER AIDED PRESENTATION SYSTEM
AND VTS
THE VIDEO TITLING SYSTEM

NO GAMES ANYMORE !

FOR INFO 1001 SD
OLMENLAAN 12
1829 HP ALKMAAR
HOLLAND

----->

1 0 0 1 S O F T W A R E D E V E L O P M E N T : W H O E L S E ?

[TCD]

Originally Posted by breech

Mad Professor Moriati

I mean I understand that he would get angry, but that's quite 'drastic'.

[gimbal]

"A big fuck to all those people who said they were interested in buying
the game but didn't show up because they didn't have enough green."

Ah, such warming words. Such pleasant people, they really have heart for the community you know.

[breech]

heres a few more.. a bit lighter this time

Monty Pythons Flying Circus:

THIS GAME WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY PUTTING IT ON A PIECE OF WOOD AND BANGING A FEW NAILS

Paradise lost disk 2:

MATAHARi - 00001----------------I like programming and that's why I've writtenthis game.There can be no any other reason.....!----------------While writing this text,I'm not planning to list a long

greetinglist because of limited space onthis disk.But you can be sure that your name is not mentioned even...! Especially if you're one of those idiots who made fun of me then go and make fun of

yourself,even starting this kind of awork is too complex for your limited brains....!---------------- Matahari

Paradise lost disk 4:

MATAHARi - 00003----------------Kiti is our master and Kata is our father.The rest is an unexplainable smoke in the mist which could only be seen by intuition. ----------------If you think that this game is

too easy to play,then search for Paradise Lost II----------------This is Matahari typing now.....Although I hate writing parallaxcalculations, I love the result.And I believe that game production is a piece

of art.It needs patience,hardworking,discipline,and imagination.Thanx a lot for buying our product

[gimbal]

"THIS GAME WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY PUTTING IT ON A PIECE OF WOOD AND BANGING A FEW NAILS".

I like that Very quotable.

[breech]

Some more

F17 Challenge:

Piracy is a theft. Don't mess this game! ---- F17 CHALLENGE AMIGA VERSION. ***HOLODREAM/TEAM 17 PRODUCTION***

Laser Squad demo:

COPYRIGHT BLADE SOFTWARE LIMITED 1989 ... WELCOME TO LASER SQUAD .... AMIGA VERSION BY CROCKETT AND TUBBS 'FRED O'ROURKE AND XXXX XXXXX' OF TEQUE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LTD. ORIGINAL IDEA BY JULIAN GOLLOP. USE JOYSTICK OR KEYBOARD. MUSIC AND SOUND FX BY MATT FURNISS. IN GAME GRAPHICS BY MARK HARRAP 'NOBBY THE NINJA' WITH CHARACTER SETS BY MARK EDWARDS 'TEDD' TITLE PICTURES BY JASON WILSON 'SPOCK' WITH LOADING SEQUENCE BY MARK POTENTE.... THANKS TO BARRY COSTAS JIM TRIPP AND PETE HARRAP ........ IF YOU HAVE ANY QUERIES THEN PHONE TARGET GAMES ON 0279 30128 THIS COPY HAS AN ENCRYPTED CODE INCLUDED TO SHOW IT IS A DEMO. WHILE YOU ARE HACKING THIS GAME TRY AND KILL A FEW BUGS AND PHONE US ON 0709 370102 WORK 0709 375114 HOME .THATS FRED JOHN (0909) 730202

Operation Stealth

Hey LAMER If you remove the intro you can't get pass the color protection. So go play on the freeway !!

[d3cka2d3pwood]

I love this!
Can anyone help with what commands to use with the Action Replay to find these hidden messages?

[mailman]

Oscar CD32

In the header of the executable:

ó ?( é ?(N? @For my perfect daughter Kaylie .... I love you sweetheart A? ?x < ?äHS@B?Q??ü,x N®ýf#? ?L @p0N®ýr#? ?T,x

[Nightshft]

Gunshoot by Axxiom in 1988

It roughly translates to:

Whoever has come this far and is reading these important lines: We ask you not to pass on this program so quickly, as we have concluded a revenue sharing agreement. There would also be the possibility that you receive an original (contact: RSI). Thanks in advance and have fun cracking. Many greetings to Pater Becker (exec), Die Lebende Legende, DAG (don't drink so much) and everyone else.

Edit: Sorry, after posting I just realized Codetapper already posted this a while ago. I still leave it here as the translation is a bit more complete.