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2022-03-10 14:23
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
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Release id #120884 : Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

Quote:
Visa Code entry at Airport not cracked,

OK, while this could probably be better "trivia" or "goofs"...
Quote:
Proper release: Broken

... does that really make sense? It was quite normal back in the days to not remove those, and instead provide whatever you need in either seperate notefiles or even on copied paper manuals. It's no less than making the game copyable, but other than that leaving it alone as is - you'll have to go through a lot of games and mark a lot of perfectly valid cracks "broken" if this is how we deal with those now. (I don't even dare to ask for a definition of what "Broken" means in this db)
2022-03-10 18:49
Count Zero

Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 2013
Quick bin-glance led me to the opinion that its just an intro-link indeed. Could have been spread with copies of the codewheel/sheets/whatever as well.

NOT broken that is.
2022-03-10 18:53
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11523
https://csdb.dk/release/?id=175291&show=review ?
2022-03-11 17:08
TheRyk

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2484
Even remember copying codewheels by hand back in the days if it was necessary. And a crack that succeeded in Quote:
making the game copyable
without f***ing things up (in comparison to original) shouldn't be flagged broken. Definition discussion of "broken flag"... uhmh you don't wanna go there :)
2022-03-12 14:18
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11523
Quote:
And a crack that succeeded in making the game copyable
without f***ing things up (in comparison to original) shouldn't be flagged broken.

that's exactly what i'd say too
2022-03-12 15:53
Count Zero

Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 2013
Also you dont want to mark a ton of Magnetic Scroll adventures broken due to the unchanged word query from the manual after 100 "steps". MANY people back in the days were surprised that hot new game worked even after standard not nibble copy, text hacked into the booter and never even faced the protection. :)
2022-03-12 16:53
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11523
The Pawn even came with a copier, no?
2022-03-12 17:53
Copyfault

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 487
Quoting Groepaz
The Pawn even came with a copier, no?
If I'm not mixing up with other adventures from back then, I think all the games from Magnetic Scrolls came with a copier - which worked at the same "speed" as the in-game word look-up routine. Always gave me the feeling of the floppy literally spelling the words to the C64 ram (and when using the copier, the C64 was like spelling it back onto the floppy disc :) ).

Imagine we had a Transwarp-alike loader/copier back then - the copier could then at least have "told" all the words it copied! No better way to have an instruction, at least for the words the parser understands :)=)
2022-03-13 22:18
Copyfault

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 487
Feeling a bit guilty for the off-topicness of my last post, so here a little bit more on-topic: adding some more properties to choose from for "proper release" is no option? Something like "incomplete" or "was spread with physical copy of manual" would do wonders...
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