New software encryption method

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Originally Posted by Maximus

One of the strongest reverser I knew took 3 weeks to get the way of the cd-check from scratch... and you cracked SF in ONE hour?!?!

_oh my god_

you are not joking, really?!?!

nope, not joking, had to do a crack fix after it though because the e9 redirects had +400000 added to where they should have gone heh

also had 3 vm blocks (really ripped bink code. and some code from the c lib)

it was a complete rebuild, not just a cdcheck bypass.. i had the original disk so i didnt have to bother with that bit (which is admittedly a total pain)

and having to read through the 38mb logfile my tool produced wasn't fun either

(What's wrong with their business practice? I noticed they lowered alot the prices quite time ago, but I didnt relate this to such event mmh...)

their business practice is really 'persuading' their customer that their software will get cracked - they got in trouble recently by posting a torrent link to 'prove' their claims...their support also sucks as they mostly always claim the user is a pirate...

and cracking starforce is just time consuming, their api crap is pretty easily reversed once you see a flaw in their 'morphing' code, the only tricky part is from the vm bounce back (from r3->r0->r3 again)...

and again, cracking it is heavily dependant on whats actually implimented, the one i did had 2 vm calls, 700 or so 'hidden' files, and about 30 e9 redirects,

breed for example is a pretty simple one... pacman worlds is a fair bit tougher, but the vm calls in that are all bink crap, so if you analyse another bink exe you'll see how it was done...