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Didi
Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 489 |
Hacked/modfied games - Do you have more info?
Based on the discussion about Demoni +4DGHF , which is a hack of Warhawk with modified graphics, and what Smasher wrote about these hacks and about cracks without intros being sold in Italy. I also got word that in Spain it was done in a similar way.
Maybe you know about other countries this was common?
Also scene groups sometimes modified old games to look a bit different and published them as first releases of new (because widely unknown) games. Cycles +FT is a well known axample for this.
Maybe you know about more games where this was done? |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 3007 |
Quoting TheRykyep not hacked but released in 4 languages by Palace
http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Cauldron Indeed. I seem to remember looking at Cauldron II in different languages, and the entire binary layout was different. Makes it fairly certain they compiled the different language versions from source themselves. :) |
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Didi
Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 489 |
Alpha Flight released a bunch of hacked/modified games in 1995/6 to grab first release points for some old diskmag games, who would have got no points back then because of their age. They were all supplied by Cryonic who also claimed to be the creator of these games. The copyright notices were changed to later dates and creator to Stefan Vocke (Cryonic). The graphics were slighty changed and the ingame texts. Some were also enhanced with creator intros to make them require NTSC fixing and grab more points. Finally they were cäught with Cycles +FT being identified as good old "Speed King" from 1985.
I suspect Cryonic being a fake member and the mods were done by The Ignorance , because the writing style in the additional game intro infront of Worly +2FT is very similar to his scrolltext in his crack intros.
Not all games supplied by Cryonic were identified by now. Maybe you can help? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11445 |
Quote:I suspect Cryonic being a fake member
perhaps you shouldnt write it into his db entry as if it were fact - csdb isnt a diskmag. |
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Goat
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 43 |
Changing the letters from "Dari" just the way it was done with ROWLY/WORLY, I searched GB64.com for "Raid" and... BINGO!
Raid (Tronic Verlag, Ulrich Mühl):
http://gb64.com/game.php?id=14908&d=18&h=0
Dari (Butterfly Productions, Stefan Vocke):
http://gb64.com/game.php?id=1962&d=18&h=0
The coders initials (UM) are still visble in the intro screen of the fake "Dari". |
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The Gothicman
Account closed
Registered: Aug 2011
Posts: 40 |
Ah... Those nasty AFL-bitches make me sick... ;) |
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Didi
Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 489 |
Worked for 5 releases of some rather unknown games, but trying it on a quite well known game like Speed King was one step too much. ;) Pre-Internet times made it possible. |
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Goat
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 43 |
There were some hacks done by LEGEND in 1998:
The Quest for Atlantis +2
The Perfect Weapon +3 |
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Goat
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 43 |
"Turbo Racer" was also hacked from a 1987 Tronic game into a newer date/Stefan Vocke/Butterfly Productions title.
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=31280&show=trivia#trivia |
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Goat
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 43 |
"Joe" was identified now, too.
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=31446&show=trivia#trivia
Once again, "Stefan Vocke" was used as the programmer, but this time he published it through "Paradise Software" and not through "Butterfly Productions". ;-)
The original can be fetched here:
http://gb64.com/game.php?id=16116&d=18&h=0
BTW: there was no translation done as the original appears to be full english already. |
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Goat
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 43 |
"Kill the Saucers" (http://csdb.dk/release/?id=20318&show=trivia#trivia) is now identified as a hack of "Missioncode CX-13" (http://gb64.com/game.php?id=14909&d=18&h=0).
This means that the information on the SID (Missioncode CX-13) need to be changed in game name, composer and company now. |
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