Posted at 21:20 on April 8th, 2018 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | Seeing the interest for advanced sector/flux-based copy protected dumps is ever more aroused, we decided to take a turn in this direction and see what we can do. So far, there is little information with regards to best dumping methods, preferred formats for both preservation and restoration to physical disks as well as copy protected games themselves and types of copy protection schemes which they originally hosted. At this stage we only have a list of such games, which is probably incomplete. Any help in completing it as well as providing information as to specific CP schemes each of them originally employed would be very much appreciated! DOS (KEY DISK) 'Nam 1965-1975 007 Licence to Kill 4 Soccer Simulators / Waydisk Minder 4th & Inches 4x4 Off-Road Racing Ace of Aces Action Fighter After Burner / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Air Duel Airborne Ranger / MPS protection 2 Ajax / HLS Duplication Alphabet Zoo Allan Border's Cricket Alter Ego (Female version) AM-FM Trivia vol. 2 / Waydisk Minder Arac (Spiderbot) Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom's Revenge!, The / MPS protection 2 Amazon Ancient Art of War Ancient Art of War at Sea, The Ancient Land of Y's Apollo 18 Arcticfox Argus Arkanoid (Imagine)/ Non-standard Sector Sizes Arkanoid (Taito) / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.x/3.x with original loader Arkanoid II: Revenge of Doh / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.x/3.x with original loader Astrilis Attack Attack On Altair BC's Quest for Tires (PC version) / Formaster Copylock BC's Quest for Tires (Tandy version) / Sector ID Duplication Bad Dudes / HLS Duplication Balance of Power / ? Batman The Caped Crusader / HLS Duplication Batman: The Movie Battlestorm Beverly Hills Cop / Rob Northen Copylock Bionic Commando Black Caudlron, The (AGI2) / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.0.3 Block Buster / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Block Buster (2nd release) / Formaster Copylock Blood Money / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Blues Brothers, The / ? Bombjack (Rob Northen Copylock) Bop'N Wrestle / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Boot Camp / HLS Duplication Boulder Dash II (?) / Waydisk Minder Boulder Dash II (?) / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Boulder Dash Construction Kit Bruce Lee Lives Bubble Bobble / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.x/3.x Bubble Ghost Bully's Sporting Darts By Fire & Sword / ? Cadaver (?) California Games / HLS Duplication Carl Lewis Challenge Carrier Command Castle Master / Rob Northen's Copylock Castle Wolfenstein Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess Championship Baseball Championship Golf The Great Courses of the World - Volume I Pebble Beach Chessmaster 2000, The Chip's Challenge Computer Baseball / Formaster Copylock Contra Cool World Crazy Cars / A001prot Crazy Cars III / A001prot ? Creative Contraptions Crime Does Not Pay Crusade in Europe Cyberball Dam Busters Dark Castle Dark Century Darkseed Death Sword Decision Base Decision in the Desert Deep Space Operation Copernicus Defender of the Crown Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True!! Dick Tracy Dive Bomber Dream Warrior Dunjonquest: Morloc's Tower Earthly Delights Entity F-15 Strike Eagle II version 451.01 / MPS protection 2 F-15 Strike Eagle II version 451.02 / MPS protection 2 F-19 Stealth Fighter version 435.01 F-19 Stealth Fighter version 435.02 F-19 Stealth Fighter version 435.04 F40 Pursuit Simulator Fast Break Final Assault Fire and Forget Fire & Forget II Floppy Frenzy Football Manager / Waydisk Minder Forgotten Worlds Four Crystals of Trazere Frank Bruno's Boxing / Waydisk Minder Frank Bruno's Boxing / Rob Northern Copylock Frightmare GBA Championship Basketball Two-on-Two No GFL Championship Football GFL Championship Football Galactic Gladiators GATO / Formaster Copylock Games Winter Edition, The Gauntlet (1st release) / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Gauntlet (2nd release) / HLS Duplication Gemini-2 Gertrude's Secrets Ghosts 'N Goblins / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Goal Grand Prix Circuit (early version) / HLS Duplication Gunship version 429.01 / MPS protection 1 Gunship version 429.03 / MPS protection 1 Gunship version 429.04 / MPS protection 1 Gunship version 429.05 / MPS protection 1 Hardball! (Disk 1) / HLS Duplication HardBall! (Disk 2, EGA Disk, early version only) / Formaster Copylock Hard Drivin' / Rob Northen's Copylock Hard Drivin' II Hard Hat Mack Heavy Barrel Highway Patrol II / Megaprot High Roller Hook Horror Zombies from the Crypt / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Ikari III: The Rescue Impossible Mission II / HLS Duplication In Search of the Most Amazing Thing Indoor Sports Infiltrator Infiltrator II / Mindscape DEM International Open Golf Championship Into the Eagle's Nest Italy 90 / Mindscape DEM Jackal Jetfighter / AZ-Tech Everlock Jetsons: The Computer Game Jr. Pac-Man Jurassic Park Karateka Karnov / ? Kickoff 3 Kids on Keys King of Chicago, The King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown (PC version) / Formaster Copylock King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown (Tandy version) / Sector ID Duplication King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown (AGI2) / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.0.3 King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne (AGI2) / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.0.3 King's Quest III: To Heir is Human / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.0.3 Knight Force L.A. Crackdown Labyrinthe des Pharaons, Le / A001prot Lamborghini American Challenge Last Ninja, The Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (v1.00 AGI v2.440) / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.0.3 Lemmings (1st & 3rd releases) / Rob Northern Copylock Lemmings 2: The Tribes / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Lethal Weapon Lode Runner Lombard RAC Rally Loremaster Lost Patrol Lothar Matthaus Championship Soccer M-Chess M-Chess Professional M1 Tank Platoon / MPS protection 2 Master Ninja Shadow Warrior of Death Math Rabbit Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! Maxit Mean 18 MegaTraveller 1 (?) Mental Blocks Might & Magic I: Secret of the Inner Sanctum Might & Magic II: Gates to Another World Mindfighter Mindshadow Mind Probe Mind-Roll Mini-Putt / HLS Duplication Mixed-up Mother Goose / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.0.3 Moebius: The Orb of Celestial Harmony / Origin Systems OSI-1 Moon Bugs Moptown Parade Nobunaga's Ambition Off Shore Warrior Oh No! More Lemmings / Rob Northern Copylock Omncron Conspiracy Oo-Topos / XELOK/XEMAG Oil's Well / Formaster Copylock Operation Wolf / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.x/3.x with original loader Operation: Cleanstreets Original Scrabble Oubliette / Formaster Copylock OutRun / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Paperboy (1st release) / Mindscape DEM Paperboy (2nd release) / Formaster Copylock Paperboy (3rd release) / Rob Northern Copylock Pipe Dream (EU version) / Minder03 Pinball Wizard / Formaster Copylock Platoon Pole Position Portal Positronic Bridge Prehistorik / A001prot Prehistorik II / Best Protection Kit-B Project Neptune Pushover Puzznic / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.x/3.x with original loader Quink / Formaster Copylock QIX / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.x/3.x with original loader Race Drivin' Rack'em Rad Warrior Rambo III / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.x/3.x with original loader Rambo: First Blood Part II Rampage Rastan / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.x/3.x) Reader Rabbit v3.0 Reader Rabbit Red Storm Rising / MPS 2 Rendezvous with Rama Renegade / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.x/3.x with original loader) Revenge of Defender Rick Dangerous / MPS 2 Rick Dangerous 2 / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Rising Dinasty / Cops Copylock II Robocop Robot Rascals Robot Odyssey Rocky's Boots Rocket Lander Rogue Rollo and the Brush Brothers Rush'n Attack / HLS Duplication S.D.I. S.T.U.N. Runner / Rob Northen's Copylock Sapiens Sarge Sargon III / XELOK/XEMAG Savage / MPS 2 Search & Destroy Serve & Volley Seven Spirits of Ra Shadowgate / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Shangai Shinobi / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Shufflepuck Cafe Sid Meier's Pirates! (432.02+) / MPS 2 Sierra Championship Boxing (1984 version) / Formaster Copylock Sierra Championship Boxing (later release) / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.0.3 Sierra's 3-D Helicopter Simulator / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.0.3 with Sierra's Loader Sky Shark / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.x/3.x with original loader) Sleepwalker Snack Attack II Snooper Troops: Case #1 (version 1.0) Snooper Troops: Case #2 - The Case of the Disappearing Dolphin Snow Strike Socrates (don't know if it's a game or not) Space Harrier / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.0.3 Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.0.3 Space Racer Space Station Oblivion StarQuest: Rescue at Rigel Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative Star Wars Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Stormlord Street Sports Basketball Street Sports Soccer Stunt Car Racer / Stunt Track Racer / MPS 2 Sub Battle Simulator Sub Mission Super Caulrdon / ? Super Hang-On Super Pac-Man / HLS Duplication Super Tennis / Non-standard Sector Sizes Superbike Challenge Superstar Ice Hockey Super Tennis / Non-standard Sector Sizes Sword of the Samurai / MPS 2 TFX Temple of Apshai Trilogy Test Drive / HLS Duplication Test Drive II: The Duel / HLS Duplication Test Drive II: Car Disk Muscle Cars Test Drive II: Car Disk The Supercars Test Drive II: Scenery Disk California Challenge Test Drive II: Scenery Disk European Challenge The Games: Summer Edition The Train: Escape to Normandy Thexder / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.0.3 Think Quick! version 1.0 Three Stooges, The Thud Ridge ThunderBlade Thunderstrike Times of Lore Titus the Fox: To Marrakech and Back / Best Protection Kit A/B Toobin' / Rob Northen's Copylock Top Gun / Formaster Copylock Tracer Sanction, The Train Escape to Normandy, The Trains / Non-standard Sector Sizes Transylvania / ? Treasure Trap Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness / Origin Systems OSI-1 Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress (Trilogy version) / Origin Systems OSI-1 Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress (1983 & 1984 versions) / Formaster Copylock Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress (1985 version) / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.x/3.x with original loader Ultima III: Exodus (1984 & 1985 versions) / Formaster Copylock Ultima III: Exodus (Trilogy version) / XELOK/XEMAG Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar / Origin Systems OSI-1 Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny / Origin Systems OSI-1 Uridium Video Trek 88 Voyager WWF: European Rampage Where in the World is Carmen San Diego Wild Streets Willow Winter Challenge World Class Competition Wizardry III Wizball Wizkid Word Search Puzzle Word Spinner World Championship Soccer / Waydisk Minder World Karate Championship World Tour Golf X-Men: Madness in Murderworld / MPS 2 Xenon 2: Megablast / Rob Northern Copylock Zap'em PC Booter Adventure in Serenia / Non-standard Sector Sizes Agent USA / Non-standard Sector Sizes Amnesia / Electronic Arts IBM Interlock Archon: The Light and the Dark / Electronic Arts IBM Interlock Battlezone Below the Root / Non-standard Sector Sizes Boulder Dash II: Rockford's Revenge / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Bruce Lee BurgerTime Centipede Commando Conflict in Vietnam Crossfire (IBM PCjr version) / Formaster Copylock Defender Dig Dug Donald Duck Alphabet Chase Donald Duck's Playground / Softguard SUPERLoK 2.0.3 with Sierra's Loader Eden Blues F-15 Strike Eagle Frogger / On-Line Systems Protection #1 Galaxian (Tengen version by Thunder Mountain) Galaxian (Atari version) Gremlins / Non-standard Sector Sizes Guerrilla War Hacker II / Vault PROLok 2.0 Hard Hat Mack / Electronic Arts IBM Interlock Harrier Combat Simulator / Weak Bits Generic Implementation Ikari Warriors Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road Jungle Hunt / Non-standard Sector Sizes Karnov King's Quest I (IBM PCjr version) / Non-standard Sector Sizes King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne Lock On Lode Runner Marble Madness / Electronic Arts IBM Interlock Microsoft Flight Simulator (v1.00) / Non-standard Sector Sizes Microsoft Flight Simulator (v2.10) Moon Patrol Mr. Cool / Formaster Copylock Ms. Pac-Man (Namco version by Thunder Mountain) Murder on the Zinderneuf / Electronic Arts IBM Interlock One-on-One / Electronic Arts IBM Interlock Pac-Man (Namco version by Thunder Mountain) Pinball Construction Set / Electronic Arts IBM Interlock Pitstop II / Non-standard Sector Sizes Robotron 2084 Seven Cities of Gold, The / Electronic Arts IBM Interlock Sid Meier's Pirates! (v432.03) / Non-standard Sector Sizes Sierra Championship Boxing Silent Service Solo Flight Spiderbot / Waydisk Minder Stargate Summer Games II Super Boulder Dash / Electronic Arts IBM Interlock Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror / Electronic Arts IBM Interlock Touchdown Football Trivia 101 Troll's Tale / Formaster Copylock TV and Cinema 101 Trivia from Talkies to Trekkies Ulysses and the Golden Fleece / On-Line Systems Protection #1 Will Harvey's Music Construction Set / Electronic Arts IBM Interlock Winter Games Wizard and the Princess / Formaster Copylock World Games / Non-standard Sector Sizes ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. ----- Edited by Moebius at 08:08 on March 25th, 2020 |
Posted at 14:09 on December 27th, 2018 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Student Gumby Posts: 22 | You can add Oo-Topos. It's a Polarware adventure game and its a DOS game, it uses key-disk copy protection. Teledisk doesn't seem to be able to dump it properly, as the TD0 output seems to become unreadable. Needs to be dumped by Kryoflux and/or SCP. ----- Edited by carlostex at 14:10 on December 27th, 2018 |
Posted at 17:57 on December 27th, 2018 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | Added, thank you! ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. |
Posted at 20:18 on April 10th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Baby Gumby Posts: 1 | You can add The 2x720K 3.5" Software Toolworks release of The Four Crystals of Trazere for DOS to the key disk list, with a twist. Specifically, it uses a compromise between buyer convenience and protection efficacy where the installer checks for an alternating sequence of bad and good sectors on the disk (inside the MIKE_DUF.FY file) and then, if it's satisfied, it installs a copy of the game that doesn't require the floppies but is locked to some sort of fingerprint of your specific PC's hardware, so it protects against "copy parties" but not against sharing your originals with people you trust. Visualizations of the bad sectors (Speaking of those screenshots, something I just discovered is that ddrescueview can watch your GNU ddrescue .log file for changes so you can get a GUI progress indication of the dumping process, including having the little highlight square track where ddrescue is currently reading from.) It's also picky enough that, if you're installing it on a Windows 98SE machine, you have to use the "Restart in MS-DOS mode" option to get it to install and, once you've done that, the fingerprint check won't pass if you boot into Windows. (I have the bad luck of having to do that because Trazere insists on running in EGA mode on the DOS622/Win3.11 side of my my retro PC's dual-boot setup despite the installer detecting VGA and the dithering is horendous.) Also, it looks like Rocky's Boots has on-disk copy protection. (See the MobyGames photo of the floppy label) I stumbled across that after noticing Math Rabbit on your list and trying to figure out when they stopped using key disks, given that my earliest TLC game (Outnumbered v1.02, which predates their decision to support Adlib sound but does have EGA graphics) doesn't have key disk protection. ----- See also my Internet Archive uploads and my blog posts listing tools for writing/debugging retro software. |
Posted at 05:41 on April 13th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | ssokolow, thank you for all the valuable information! The game has been added to the list. ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. |
Posted at 15:31 on November 15th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | List updated. ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. |
Posted at 14:28 on December 8th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | Anybody knows which of these and other games used the following protection methods: Az-Tech Software’s Everlock, SmartCAM, BBI Computer Systems StopCopy, Vault Prolok, SuperLock ? ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. ----- Edited by Moebius at 11:31 on December 9th, 2019 |
Posted at 15:33 on December 8th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | Ok, so Superlok is Softguard. ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. ----- Edited by Moebius at 16:49 on December 8th, 2019 |
Posted at 03:27 on March 1st, 2020 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | Update: Oo-Topos works fine as Teledisk in both PCE and 86box, but it has to be run from drive A: exactly. Also, you must enable turbo timings in 86box. Enjoy. ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. |