30 December 2008, 23:30 | #1 |
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I'm pleased to announce I'll be working in a WDHLoad slave for "MegaTraveller: The Zhodani Conspiracy" in January, right after (and if) the original disks get to me.
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Great BlueAchenar! Hope everything will go smooth |
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30 December 2008, 23:47 | #3 |
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Good luck with it Seems like a nice game.
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It's a nice game and a cool one for your first go at WHDLoad slave programming Like I said best of luck and I'm sure if you stumbleover something there are a lot of folks here that will help you |
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31 December 2008, 02:12 | #5 |
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If I remember rightly, its RNC Copylock protected on the main executable file, all encrypted, I take it you are familiar with this protection?
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31 December 2008, 02:14 | #6 |
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Not really, but one has to start somewhere. I was hoping more for only some custom trackloader, but decrypting stuff is fun too.
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usually the RNC Copylock routine is called, it returns a serial key in D0, but this Copylock doesn't, the Copylock is built into the encrypted file, and if it doesn't sucessfully get the right serial key, then the file doesn't decrypt. Of course the Copylock uses trace vector decoding, so you never see you code in the Copylock |
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Do you have any RNC Copylock docs (those that came with Xenon II for example)? |
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31 December 2008, 03:25 | #11 |
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And by the way... do you have the resourced sources to the games you've WHDified?
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I'm feeling a bit lazy today to work on the new compactflash driver, so I think I'll start working on this with the SPS images. I should have the disks here by next week anyway and lots of other games with no WHDLoad slave to have more fun if I start getting the hang of it.
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Are you sure this is encrypted Galahad? It doesn't seem to be, maybe I'm looking at the wrong executables.
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02 January 2009, 11:36 | #16 |
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When I attempted to slave this game, I just tried to add the patches from the 'amiga patch list' to get past past protection. I never got the game stable (im not that skilled) so no idea if the protection fix worked. I may have been patching the loader instead of main exe, cant remember if I figured how to get slave to patch the right file.
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I almost completed resourcing startup.exe yesterday and no signs of encryption. Looks like I have a slave to do tonight after work. From what I've read from WHDLoad docs, I just have to patch the executable to remove the protection and system I/O calls back to the slave. The only thing I still have to see how to do is that "trav" executes "startup.exe" and this last file is the one which needs to be patched and isn't supposed to be run directly. How would I go about patching it without running it and making "trav" execute it after the patch? |
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02 January 2009, 12:29 | #20 |
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How do I submit an Work In Progress entry to the WHDLoad site?
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