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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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tlr
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 1797 |
Quote: I'm pretty sure Hexenküche was official localized release.
Fair enough, but was it done by the author or was it a commissioned binary hack? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11445 |
pretty sure it was done by palace themselves |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2367 |
yep not hacked but released in 4 languages by Palace
http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Cauldron |
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Dr.j
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 279 |
i think it wasn't common at all of changing the game and to release as "another game" and change (whatsoever gfx/music/sprites) i think ppl were smart enough 30 yrs ago
and it was totally lame by crackers to do such stupid
acts. i know this method is got into to trend for games of
apps or on websites (unity sources/flash ) i guess there
are only a few of those hacks |
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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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