levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder) (11/02/90)
In article <1990Oct31.235930.7746@agora.uucp> billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) writes: [re: Emerald Mines] > If the copy protection check fails on the initial load, you'll be >able to play the levels, but with a fairly major time penalty. Maybe that's >what you were seeing in terms of the different times/level. > Supposing that's the problem, can the disk be unprotected? I've been playing with the original distribution disk, with the write-protect disabled, so that it could save my progress, but as I described, it seems to be erratic about doing so. Will project D or any of those things do the trick for me? Another game I seem to have a disk problem with is WG Hockey. I put the disk in, and about 20% of the time it boots OK. Other times, it just sits in the machine for about 5 minutes (literally) and then boots. Thereafter, it plays ok, but there are NEVER any fights. (even playing pro, with fights on.) Anyone know of a disk copier that'll deprotect Gretzky? (I think I have one of the earlier releases of the game).
billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) (11/03/90)
In article <1990Nov1.190618.10239@world.std.com> levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder) writes:
:Supposing that's the problem, can the disk be unprotected? I've been playing
:with the original distribution disk, with the write-protect disabled, so
:that it could save my progress, but as I described, it seems to be erratic
:about doing so. Will project D or any of those things do the trick for me?
Boy, I can't say for sure, but I would *think* that Project D would
deprotection on EM and EM2. The games are certainly old enough now for copy
programs to have caught up. :-) I seem to remember a 'how to' file kicking
around a couple of years ago with the location of the bytes that needed to
be changed to do the deprotect also, but I don't find it in a casual search
though. It's less of a need for EM2, since your data files are all on a second,
no protected, disk.
:Another game I seem to have a disk problem with is WG Hockey. I put the disk
:in, and about 20% of the time it boots OK. Other times, it just sits in
:the machine for about 5 minutes (literally) and then boots. Thereafter, it
:plays ok, but there are NEVER any fights. (even playing pro, with fights
:on.) Anyone know of a disk copier that'll deprotect Gretzky? (I think I
:have one of the earlier releases of the game).
This one I know Project D did. They used to have a special routine
just for WG Hockey.
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