Pinball Illusions by Hybrid (HYB)
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1995 September 13
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Proudly Present
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║ Pinball Illusions (c) Digital Illusions/21st Century Entertainment ║
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║ Supplied by │ Mad Turnip │ Release Date │ Sep 13th 1995 ║
║ Cracked by │ Cyber │ Protection │ CD check/Encryption║
║ Packaged by │ Hoson │ Game Type │ Pinball game ║
║ Stripped by │ Cyber │ Game Rating │ 85% ║
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║ Requirements: 386DX-40, 4MB RAM, DOS, VGA, 50MB free HD-space. ║
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║ We are proud to bring you one of the most awaited games this year... ║
║ Pinball Illusions! - Now featuring multiball + 4 new tables and running ║
║ very smooth in 320x400 resolution. Programmed by Swedish people, and, ║
║ ofcourse cracked and made convenient by Swedish people! You've been ║
║ waiting for this one, haven't you? Just go ahead and download it then! ║
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║ What has been raped(!) out? ║
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║ Nothing at all! It's *ALL* there! Except for the 15 audio tracks the ║
║ original CD held. BUT, these audio tracks wasn't part of the game. ║
║ They were probably put there just so you could listen to the cool music ║
║ in your regular CD-player. The reason why it takes 50MB of your precious ║
║ HD-space is that the villainous makers of the game have added approx. ║
║ 40MB of PURE GARBAGE to the ILLUSION.EXE file, thus making the game ║
║ appear larger than it actually is, or are they just preventing people ║
║ from ripping it (?) - who the hell knows! Read more about it in Cyber's ║
║ crack 'n strip notes below. ║
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║ Cyber's crack 'n strip notes: ║
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║ I started cracking this game with the specific intention of reducing it to ║
║ at least half the original size. I knew the files had to be stored inside ║
║ the EXE data, the problem was just locating the 'directory'. Since the EXE ║
║ stub loader wasn't crunched, I took a quick tour through the memory and ║
║ came up empty. OK, no problem. They probably had it encrypted along with ║
║ the rest of the data. Then I started decoding the encrypted part, but I ║
║ still couldn't find any filenames. I did, however, find some strings that ║
║ indicated DPMI support, which was very odd considering it wouldn't run ║
║ under Windows. The DPMI support was uncovered when I went deeper into the ║
║ code and discovered a FULL set of extenderroutines. They'd just removed the║
║ check for it. Some sort of Soft-Ice protection maybe? Then I made the next ║
║ startling discovery: the FILENAMES were also encrypted! Hmmm... Someone had║
║ obviously gone through a lot of trouble to make sure that none would find ║
║ out which files were used and which were not. My suspicion was confirmed ║
║ when I found a set of files which seemed never to be used. These files took║
║ up approx. 44 of the 49 megs. I figured out how the files were stored and ║
║ then I simply filled them with zeroes. I just didn't have the energy to ║
║ totally rearrange the directory table to remove them. ║
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║ The result? The game can now be stored on four disks.I personally think ║
║ it's a display of poor attitude to make a file big just because it's on CD.║
║ Also the game is quite full of bugs, at least when it comes to the sound. ║
║ Try enjoying the music when you return to the selector after playing a ║
║ table and you'll know what I mean. ║
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║ The game checked for a CD, but it didn't check for the correct one. I used ║
║ one of my ZZ Top CD's before I had the check removed. ║
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║ Allright, enough flaming now. The Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions games ║
║ are, all in all, rather enjoyable and I know of many who have become ║
║ addicted - so why keep them from playing it just because it would take ║
║ 34 disks? ║
║ -Cyber ║
║ Installation: ║
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║ Just unzip all the files to a directory and run INSTALL.EXE. ║
║ After installation, type PINBALL to configure/start the game! ║
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║ Hybrid welcomes: ║
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║ Two new crazy traders, namely Fatalman (+972) and Slaine (+34). Welcome! ║
║ ║
║ Special greets to : Cyber, MindBender, Lord Soth, Madcap, Bluewater, ║
║ Celestial Wizard, The Undertaker, Mad Turnip, TRC, ║
║ Randall Flagg, Mr.Terry, Spearhead, MISHA, Widget and ║
║ RingoStar/ex-Classic Amiga (I couldn't find your name ║
║ anywhere in the credits part. If I would have seen it ║
║ there, I wouldn't have release the game in the first ║
║ place, but you already knew that, didn't you? :-) ║
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║ Group greets : Phoenix, Hoodlum, DOD, Complex (JMagic), Jeskola! ║
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║ Notes to TDUJam! : What's the point having 1.44 format if you always ║
║ make disk #1 1.57 format? Small hint: when you ARJ, ║
║ add -vr80K to your option string, and ARJ will auto- ║
║ matically reserve 80KB on ARJ volume #1. It's really ║
║ annoying when you can't store disk #1 and the TDUJAM ║
║ installer/intro on the same disk, rite? OK cool! ║
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║ Hybrid Membership ║
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║ BlueWater & Hoson ║
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║ Big Balls, Celestial Wizard, ChainSaw MasSacre, Crackpot, Cyber, Ice, ║
║ MindBender, Mad Gunman, Mad Monkey, Mad Turnip, Mod, Mr.Terry, ║
║ Randall Flagg, Silver V, The Renegade Chemist, The Undertaker, ║
║ Zeus, Widget, and Wildcard. ║
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║ Bruce Lee, Chaft, Fatalman, Il Cattino, Mike & Dave, Practical Joker, ║
║ Slain, The Druid, and Ustasa. ║
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║ Park Central World HQ 16 Nodes XXX-XXX-XXXX CP/Silver V║
║ Robin's First Orgasm Canada HQ 5 Nodes 613-XXX-XXXX Big Balls ║
║ Fatal Future Euro HQ 10 Nodes +46-XXX-XXXX MindBender ║
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║ Central Station Dutch HQ 2 Nodes +31-XXX-XXXX Widget ║
║ East BBS Swedish HQ 3 Nodes +46-XXX-XXXX Mr.Terry ║
║ The Graveyard UK HQ 4 Nodes +44-ITS-DOWN Undertaker ║
║ Druid's Keep Australian HQ 8 Nodes +61-XXX-XXXX The Druid ║
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║ April Fools Member Board 3 Nodes 613-XXX-XXXX PJoker ║
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║ You may contact Hybrid for any reasons (joining, fan/hate-mail, etc.) ║
║ using one of the services listed beneath; ║
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║ Americans, e-mail us at: [email protected] ║
║ Europeans, e-mail us at: [email protected] ║
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║ IRC: #hybrid ║
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║ WWW: http://www.coming.soon ║
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║ snail-mail: Hybrid ║
║ Kyrkog. 40 ║
║ EuroBox 179 ║
║ S-411 15 GOTHENBURG ║
║ Sweden ║
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Today's wise quote:
"CD-Audio or Cassette? CD-ROM or Floppy? You choose!"