hacking games with starforce

[michse]

morglum i have a question...

Is it possible to get 2 tools done that do the follwoing

1st one is a dumper/logger that returns some offsets or so that explain the point where it goes into protection checking and the offset where its passed with result CD is Ok?

2nd one is a loader that bypass the protection check and jumps to the point in mainexe memory where the protection check has returned result ok

it was already used for some VOB 5 games like Port Royal 1 as u might know

[guod]

But then, the next question will be, who's going to have the guts to read through 500+ MB of logs to figure it out?

The cd-check appears to be quick because star-force is running at an absolutely high priority level... ever tried moving the mouse while the cd-check is running.. slow eh ;p It would probably take a few days (non-stop, and at a good speed) just to trace through the cd-check once.

[michse]

well if it would be easy we would see such tools already spreaded and have for sure new updated SF already from the russian freaks.

But coding a dumper that hooks every pcoded function no matter if recent for protection or not is also a hard job.

Such a tool might be coded for already cracked sf3 games and then we could learn from the logfile what we have to seach. There are some of them already and it doesnt matter if it has pcode or not with such a loader and as you dont patch the main files it gives you the chance that hidden checks or something like this can be stoped. A NoCD might be difficult then when addional simple cdchecks are in the game but who cares if you can run from a mounted image from original CD. HDDs are big and so a image can be stored and the orig cd can be placed save into the box again. I hate it when CDs go bad like my Soldiers and Toca 2 and companys doesnt do a **** to give you a new one when you ask, they simply say you buy again. grrr

[ash2dust2]

Thanx for the info. One of the more intelligent threads. Maybe worth a stickey so we can point all the monkeys requesting SF3 cracks to this.

[ava978]

I always purchase my games! My friends too, but we had to get THOCA and Soldiers-Heroes of WW2 two times before they worked.The way i see it (and my friends agree) SF3 is created only to suck more MONEY from us! This, and i hope U feel me is NOT good at all!