Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess - Unprotection Scheme   by Independent (IND)

Interplay Productions "Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess" Unprotection Scheme -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by the Rogue Modulator ================================================================================ Are you tired of looking up words, codes, or other nonsense in a manual to play that great new computer game that you just acquired? If you are, here is a simple routine to fix that annoying copy protection scheme. This unprotection scheme is for "Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess" from Interplay Productions. The patch is intended to be used on the SETUP.EXE file dated 9-14-90 at 3:21pm. The file size should be 28,789 bytes. For those reading this file who may be familiar with a program named EXEPACK.EXE from Microsoft, the SETUP.EXE file is processed with EXEPACK.EXE (the CHESS2.EXE file is processed with EXEPACK.EXE, as well.) Hence, use this patch on the packed version of SETUP.EXE only! Results garnered from using the patch on the unpacked version of SETUP.EXE (via UPACKEXE.EXE or another similar utility) are unpredictable! The patch is really quite crude, but I was in a hurry. The patch works by clobbering (through null overwriting) of the secret codes included in the manual for each of the five fictional games. Simply have DEBUG in the current directory or path, and have SETUP.EXE in the current directory and then type BC2UNP. That's all there is to using this unprotection scheme. When SETUP.EXE asks for the secret code upon request to save the configuration, simply press 'Enter' once. ================================================================================ (The skilled hacker may wish to examine the BC2UNP.SCR DEBUG script to see how the unprotection is managed.)