Date   : Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:33:19 +0100
From   : "Rich Talbot-Watkins" <Richard_Watkins@...>
Subject: Re: More tape to disc transfer fun: Alien 8

James Fidell <james@...> wrote:

> Quoting Rich Talbot-Watkins (Richard_Watkins@...):
>
> > While we're on this tape to disc thread (Hampstead), here's my chance
> > to bring up an old favourite topic of mine: did anyone ever look at
> > Kevin Edwards' EVIL protection on Alien 8 by Ultimate, and did anyone
> > crack it and get it onto disc?  My conclusion was that it was actually
> > impossible to crack without writing a hardware emulator or resorting
> > to hardware cheating somehow.
> >
> > Anyone who ever looked at the code will know exactly what I'm talking
> > about!
>
> Sure I did.  And yes, I wrote some hardware emulation to do it :)

Ahhhhh.... I'm impressed!  And quite intrigued as to how you figured it all
out.  I never got the timings right for certain things so it never stood a
chance of working.  How did you figure out the exact behaviour of something
like ROL &FE65 anyway?

Rich :)
Rich Talbot-Watkins
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Cambridge.
Richard_Watkins@...