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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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Smasher
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 524 |
Quoting TheRyk ... in what? Lawlessness? After all I've read here, I think that might hold true :)
you perfectly know in what, as it was against West Germany in 1982! :)
well, we could open a new topic to talk about copyright laws.
For example here in Switzerland you can legally download any multimedia content (movies, music, etc... I'm not talking about software like videogames) and you can share it with your family, your relatives and your friends, but you can't publish it and make it general available. in practice: you can download any movies/mp3 with bittorrent if you stop/filter the upload flow. |
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Goat
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 43 |
Another hacked game:
"The Adventures of the Little Ghostkid" (https://csdb.dk/search/?seinsel=all&search=ghostkid) from 1991 is an unauthorized hack of the game "Orsital" (https://csdb.dk/search/?seinsel=all&search=orsital), which was published in 1989.
The original's game coder writes: "Ha, I’ve not seen Little Ghostkid before, same game, but someone added better sprite graphics, level’s still the same by the looks of it : )" |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2377 |
yet another one Strega [italian] |
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Akira
Registered: Oct 2003
Posts: 52 |
This happened in Argentina too. I need to find some examples, but besides the wild recracking going on, some games were also hacked and distributed as "new". |
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Zibri
Account closed
Registered: May 2020
Posts: 304 |
Quoting AKiRaThis happened in Argentina too. I need to find some examples, but besides the wild recracking going on, some games were also hacked and distributed as "new".
Or even fake games like Archon III "Exciter" :D |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2377 |
Aaand one more
Saloon |
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Fungus
Registered: Sep 2002
Posts: 720 |
I remember arguing with some Hungarian about Space Taxi, he said it was created by a couple coders from there and pointed out some disk "original" to prove it. Meanwhile the real authors name was still in the secret menu. So this nonsense has been going on since the 80s for sure.
I'd mark them all as recracks. |
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Ziaxx
Registered: Oct 2020
Posts: 19 |
Quote: I remember a wheelchair race game which was infact a modified Pitstop 2, something similar to http://csdb.dk/release/?id=108678. But I can't remembery anymore if it was for made for getting a firstie or just for fun.
Maybe it was this version of Le Mans where the cars were replaced with wheelchairs? |
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Fungus
Registered: Sep 2002
Posts: 720 |
Hahaha Wheelchair race was made by MEpk in like 10 minutes on IRC, I remember when he did it. |
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Scrap
Registered: Jan 2021
Posts: 21 |
I even „hacked“ my own games… coded something like Turn It for Kingsoft, changed gfx, music and some little code and sold it to Magic Disk… Even named it „Sequel“ to make it more obvious… š but: pssst.. don’t tell anyone… |
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