Re: Searching for a game called... Dragonfire? Not the action one, an rpg one.

[bloomer_au <bloomer@iprimus.com.au>]

On Dec 10, 7:25 am, Antoine Vignau <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
> H3ll0 RPG players,
>
> Dragon Fire from Level-10, a division of Dakin5 Corporation is now
> available athttp://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/crack/LEVEL10_DRAGONFIRE_MASTER.dsk
>
> Please test by playing. The protection was so weak that I feel there
> is some hidden routines in the code.
>
> I have the documentation which I cannot scan at the moment, probably
> really later in 2012.

Hi Antoine,

Thanks a lot. I tried it out a bit.

The 1st good sign is that the high score list is empty. I remember my
old crack image had a list of insanely high scores that I assume the
pirates hacked into place.

I've played twice. The first time I died on level 6. The second time I
died earlier than that. Both sessions played fine.

What I noticed is that when it asks you if you want to play again, if
you say 'NO', it crashes to a prompt which says:

LANGUAGE NOT AVAILABLE
STOPPED AT 30
>

It's an old game so it's not impossible this is what really happens if
you say NO, but I thought being commercial software it might be a
little more graceful.

At the prompt, I typed 'LIST'. This made the drive do something, then
another prompt appeared. I just hope whatever it did wasn't some
mechanism to mess up a person's copy of the game.

I will do more testing.

PS I feel a bit silly asking a master cracker this question, but did
you check what was written in that issue of Hardcore Computist about
cracking this game, or did you do it from scratch, or both?

- Wade