The Secret of the Lost Cavern - Completely new copy-protection

[Hexana]

The new adventure game
ECHO - The Secret of the Lost cavern
seems to have a completely new copy protection, no backup is possible.
The protection seems to have a lot of similarities to starforce 3, but it isn't starforce.
The newest versions of Aray and Protection ID don't detect anything.

Does anybody know more about this?

[Tony22]

probably new Tages version.

[eye2eye]

yes new version of TAGES.
The deviance files are a big load of **** (as often!!), just demo files. You
can play 'till 2. cavern then it jumps to intro back...

Searched all the web:
french tit: Au coeur de lascaux
germ tit: Geheimniss der vergessenen Höhle

no working fixe so far, always demo stuff
if you want to go over 2. cavern, patch this:
...
0041F2E9 1BC0 sbb eax, eax
0041F2EB 83D8FF sbb eax, FFFFFFFF
0041F2EE 85C0 test eax, eax
0041F2F0 7519 jne 0041F30B <<<<<<<<<<< 90 90
0041F2F2 8B54241C mov edx, dword ptr [esp+1C]
...
But interface does not work correctly, whenever you have to use
object A with object B it does not work (light torche with torche,
play musical stones with hammer etc.).
Patch LUA-script and you can come across this ****.

[DABhand]

Change the 75 to EB

[GLH]

Originally Posted by DABhand

Change the 75 to EB

cyrillic?

[ByteMare]

Don't nope , just jump....

[floydz]

Originally Posted by eye2eye

...
0041F2E9 1BC0 sbb eax, eax
0041F2EB 83D8FF sbb eax, FFFFFFFF
0041F2EE 85C0 test eax, eax
0041F2F0 7519 jne 0041F30B <<<<<<<<<<< 90 90
0041F2F2 8B54241C mov edx, dword ptr [esp+1C]
...

but this works?
if works, how i can use this?

ty

[leezer3]

What he's saying, is to open up the game exe in a hex editor, and go to address 0041F2F0 . There change the 75 to a EB, which I think means to skip that instruction, and disable copy protection. (It's a long time scince I played in hex editors :P)

-Leezer-

[Joe Forster/STA]

By the way, the first patch (change 75-19 to 90-90) always SKIPS the jump, while the second patch (change 75-19 to EB-19) always TAKES the jump. One of them may work, but not both.