Re: Possibility of "64K only" filecracks?

[Steve Nickolas <lyricalnanoha@usotsuki.hoshinet.org>]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Antoine Vignau wrote:

> On 30 déc, 06:10, Steve Nickolas <lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org>
> wrote:
> > I got to thinking, knowing this has been done for Moon Patrol - and I did
> > something similar with Alien Addition.  I wonder if it would be possible
> > to crack other games that need to reload pieces of themselves, such that
> > they can get those pieces from the LC memory.
> >
> > I...don't really understand how the disk system works very well, and not
> > enough to actually grovel through a memory dump and see where stuff loads
> > certain tracks or sectors off the drive.
> >
> > I'm rather curious as to whether it could work for, say, Donkey Kong.
> >
> > -uso.
>
> Heelllloooooo sir,
> What is possible with Moon Patrol (load of the moonbase) is not
> possible with Donkey Kong: half of the disk contains the HGR pictures
> of the levels (unless you are a very bad player and do not go further
> than 25m ;-))
> I don't know for others.
>
> antoine

Wow, that's daft.  No attempt to compress it into tiles?

LOL ATARI

I once saw a 2-file crack of Lode Runner, though it used the LOL "S" TYPE.

-uso.