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09-03-10, 02:10 AM | #31 |
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Statical repair-time bugfix to sh3.exe is easy. But sharing that exe file is illegal.
Question: Is it illegal to provide a tool that makes fixing a software bug very easy? It does no more than that. no disabling of copyright protection and so on. Since I won't have starforce on my PC, I am not able and willing to patch the starforced version. So a person who wants longer repair times very much (as I do) and does only have the starforced version, will be forced to buy the non-protected software for some cents. So UBI could perhaps also take profit from that. h.sie I have to laugh about myself, having problems with legality/illegality and morale because I just fix a bug. On the other hand a well-known big software publisher seems not to have any morale problems to make promises (even promotion videos) and then take much money for a bug collection for which the attribute "alpha version" already is a compliment. Last edited by h.sie; 09-03-10 at 03:59 AM. |
09-03-10, 03:17 PM | #32 |
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I have serious humor problems. Now, seriously h.sie, Many thanks and kudos to you by your hard work and the interest and passion to make sh3 a better game. It's a pity that things must be this way. I agree 1000% with yours words in the posts above about how absurd is this situation in particular...we are only trying to fix a game that we buy with promisses (by the devs/Ubi) that it would work as a sim...but after 5 years it is now just better by modders work...no necessary to say that devs/UBi don't support/make patchs for the game anymore. Well, all we know this old history. OK, files downloaded, I will now follow yours directions and will delete the modified files immediately as you asked...
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09-03-10, 04:45 PM | #34 |
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You'd waste your time patching a StarForce version as it's a direct
cause of many 'so called' bugs in SH3. I feel that since UbiSoft released a StarForce free version? They no longer support SH3. (As if they have since 1.4b patch!) So releaseing Patch files that fix issues is only helping put money in thier pockets years down the road. I doubt they will ever say anything against anything that brings in a profit. Heck, SH3 & SH4 sales are probably saveing thier arses in the SH5 fiasco! |
09-04-10, 07:35 AM | #35 |
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h.sie,
thanks for educating me, I was sursprised that someone with as little computing skills as me could follow this demonstration. Struggled at first with step 7 as that was especially tricky. Its a shame that I had to delete the amended file rather than use it but I wouldn't want to break any copyright laws. Thanks to your great work, should the copyright laws change or Ubi chaneg the copyright status of SH3, I will be already equiped to change for the better the game I have paid for. |
09-04-10, 12:02 PM | #36 |
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You rock mate! To bad I cannot sail atm. But those who can, post your experiences with this patch here!!
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09-04-10, 12:55 PM | #37 |
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it's no patch. it's a course.
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09-04-10, 08:29 PM | #38 |
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Good stuff h.sie this is something Id be interested to do
unfortunatly the bspatch.exe dos box dosnt remain open to write the command... on vista but im running another small dos programme I use for work so unable to figure why it dosnt fire up Anyone with any ideas on that? ive tweaked vista so I may have killed a function? as an aside I doubt ubi would be to interested in makin waves about this *coarse* if any one wants to delete a coarse file my way it would be appreciated... For any one else following along.... I run a that will not be mentioned .exe and even wiith star force enabled that which shall not be mentioned works... still stuck with the disc to fire up the game but the you know what works... should get around to fixing that vista prob one day...had no probs with xp sp2... .
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09-04-10, 08:37 PM | #39 |
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I'll come right out and say I have not, do not and will not use a Starforce enabled version. I've lost too many harddrives over the years to that and similar schemes. I bought and still have a fully legal copy - so Ubisoft HAS gotten their fee for this software - but the sh3.exe running on my system is from an "unauthorized" source. That being the case - is there going to be an advanced course to allow us to directly use your techniques to enable this function?
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09-04-10, 08:52 PM | #40 |
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EAW went down this road years ago with excellent results ...
I had about 4-5 different .exe all tweaked by others who knew what they doing...
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09-04-10, 09:22 PM | #41 |
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In respect to subsim.com I will not say to much, but this "course" really don´t work for unofficial nostarforce users.
The situation is really delicate as we have bought officialy the game, starforce have brought problems to a lot of ppl, then UBi released an official nostarforce version...but left the old owners of the game with the unique option to use the unofficial version. What a mess, UBI!
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Most of those ripping off this game 5 years ago would be long gone so Id say most who are still here are hard core u-boat subsimmers...???? However the nonstarforce deal makes no dif afaik since i use a nocd on a starforce version...just got to have the disk in to fire up the game... stupid dos box thing... any one want to delete a modified coarse file my way??
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09-05-10, 01:18 AM | #43 | |
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I manually opened up the Command Prompt from the Accessories folder after selecting All Programs from the Windows logo bottom left of screen. then typed cd a few times to get into the folder I'd put all the stuff in. it then worked fine. sorry if this telling your granny how to suck eggs. |
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09-05-10, 02:02 AM | #44 |
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CherryH.... is right. Open Command prompt from Accesoires
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09-05-10, 04:50 AM | #45 |
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I am sorry to say that for me it's not possible to also make a course and demonstrate how to add longer repair times to starforce-protected executables.
The reason is as follows: The non-protected executable contains large areas with code caves (code that does nothing, all bytes are set to zeroes: 00) where one can easily place the bugfix code for the repair times. In the protected version I cannot find these code caves with sufficient size to place the bugfix code in it. It seems that the code caves have been removed intentionally in order to make code manipulations very hard - too hard for me. In my store I can get unprotected SH3 for 4,99 Euros. That is nothing compared to the time I have to invest to fix the protected version. Sorry. h.sie |
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