Altered Beasty Boy   by The Humble Guys (THG)

Altered Beasty Boy by Sega Cracked by R. Bubba Magillicutty and Fabulous Furlough GRAPHICS: HGC/CGA/TDY/EGA/"VGA" SOUND: IBM/TDY/Adlib CONTROLS: Keyboard/Joystick SPAM: Not tonight, you give me a head-ache. NOTES: Press F1 from the title screen for a key quick-reference. The adlib sounds just like the arcade game, except the lame "roar" when you change. CRACKING NOTES: This one was interesting. A little different from the traditional Sega protection, but not much. It has two methods - running from floppy uses a traditional INT 13-based read, then runs part of the code it read in (or just uses the info to tell it where to jump to.) If you install to a hard drive, it modifies the root directory around the directory name where you installed it. We forced it to think it was always on a hard drive. It also checked to see if it was running from a directory right below the root dir. It wouldn't let you run it in something below that, i.e. you couldn't install it to \games\beasty. Now you can. You're welcome. This was sort of a co-crack. Actually, we pretty much both did it separately. Fabulous Furlough had it almost working but didn't know it when he called me and gave it to me. He got it far enough to get a "FILE NOT FOUND" error from LOAD. But it turned out that it always does that if you don't let it get called by BEAST. I had more fun with it. I ran the ACCESS thing which modifies your hard drive root dir. It refused to run under Compaq DOS. Of course both computers here run Compaq DOS. So I booted up with a floppy, cracked the ACCESS install program, and got it to run. That's when I told FF that you can't just run LOAD. From there we both fixed it up on our own, giving each other bad advice along the way to make cracking it take longer. - RBM Greets from R. Bubba Magillicutty to Portashop! Thanks for the help! Greets from Fabulous Furlough to Grey Ghost! Good job with Power Drift. Greets from The Spamlord to Line Noise. Parlez-vous Francais? ┌─────────────────┐ │The Humble Boards│ ┌────────────╘─────────────────╛─────────────┐ │Candyland (615) 333-6561│ │The Computer is Your Friend (415) 234-4588│ │HMS Bounty (215) 873-7287│ │HMS Bounty Line 2 (215) 873-8620│ │The Badlands (904) PRI-VATE│ │The Slave Den (904) 376-1117│ │Plato's Place node 1 - 14.4 (618) 254-5263│ │The P.I.T.S. (718) 921-3107│ │Edge of Insanity (206) 868-1435│ │Iron Fortress (508) 798-3363│ │The Theory (305) 628-0315│ │Lala Land (508) 831-0131│ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ For an 8x10 glossy of your favorite Humble Guys member, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: The Humble Guys! P.O.Box 24541 Nashville, TN 37202 We're not getting enough hate mail in the P.O. Box! Please send us some really nasty letters or we won't feel properly despised. The meanest one will make it into the next NFO file. Have a nice day!