Star Control Unprotect   by Independent (IND)

---------------------- Star Control unprotect By the MAD VANDAL ---------------------- Another doc check, I've run out of things to say about it em, except thats it getting real old. As usual it can be cracked by change one byte in the file STARCON.OVL. Norton users search the file STARCON.OVL for the byte pattern F9 F3 A6 74 and change the 74 to EB at offset 1EC9. DEBUG method. DEBUG is assumed to be in the current path or dir. 1. DEBUG STARCON.OVL 2. At the DEBUG '-' prompt enter E 1FC9 EB 3. Enter 'W' to save it. 4. Enter 'Q' to quit. Ok, that will do it. Code changes are shown below: BEFORE XXXX:1FA9 8BB682FE MOV SI,[BP+FE82] <- Process user XXXX:1FAD C682F6FE00 MOV BYTE PTR [BP+SI+FEF6],00 entry. XXXX:1FB2 8DBE30FF LEA DI,[BP+FF30] XXXX:1FB6 8DB6F6FE LEA SI,[BP+FEF6] XXXX:1FBA 16 PUSH SS XXXX:1FBB 07 POP ES XXXX:1FBC B9FFFF MOV CX,FFFF XXXX:1FBF 33C0 XOR AX,AX XXXX:1FC1 F2 REPNZ XXXX:1FC2 AE SCASB XXXX:1FC3 F7D1 NOT CX XXXX:1FC5 2BF9 SUB DI,CX XXXX:1FC7 F3 REPZ XXXX:1FC8 A6 CMPSB <- Compare entry to answer XXXX:1FC9 7405 JZ 1FD0 <- jump if corrent XXXX:1FCB 1BC0 SBB AX,AX <- Set flag to indicate wrong XXXX:1FCD 1DFFFF SBB AX,FFFF < Answer XXXX:1FD0 3D0100 CMP AX,0001 <- Continue on XXXX:1FD3 1BC0 SBB AX,AX XXXX:1FD5 F7D8 NEG AX AFTER XXXX:1FA9 8BB682FE MOV SI,[BP+FE82] <- Process user XXXX:1FAD C682F6FE00 MOV BYTE PTR [BP+SI+FEF6],00 entry. XXXX:1FB2 8DBE30FF LEA DI,[BP+FF30] XXXX:1FB6 8DB6F6FE LEA SI,[BP+FEF6] XXXX:1FBA 16 PUSH SS XXXX:1FBB 07 POP ES XXXX:1FBC B9FFFF MOV CX,FFFF XXXX:1FBF 33C0 XOR AX,AX XXXX:1FC1 F2 REPNZ XXXX:1FC2 AE SCASB XXXX:1FC3 F7D1 NOT CX XXXX:1FC5 2BF9 SUB DI,CX XXXX:1FC7 F3 REPZ XXXX:1FC8 A6 CMPSB <- Compare entry to answer XXXX:1FC9 EB05 JMP 1FD0 <- Always jumps, always right XXXX:1FCB 1BC0 SBB AX,AX <- Set flag to indicate wrong XXXX:1FCD 1DFFFF SBB AX,FFFF < Answer. This is always skipped. XXXX:1FD0 3D0100 CMP AX,0001 <- Continue on XXXX:1FD3 1BC0 SBB AX,AX XXXX:1FD5 F7D8 NEG AX As long as software companies waste their time on this, I will continue to crack it.