Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #14815, comment 1


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Apr 13, 2024, 12:29:29 PM (4 weeks ago)
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  • Ticket #14815, comment 1

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    11I don't get it. Is it really a speedrun if the game has been tampered with? (I'm not trying to be flippant here, I'm genuinely curious.)
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     3For context, I highly doubt that this crack originated with Lucasfilm games. The earliest reference I've been able to find to it was a list of various cracks posted to Usenet in 1996. The one for Maniac Mansion simply reads:
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     5{{{
     6Maniac Mansion
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     8iii) crack
     9Removing doc check:
     10File: 43.lfl
     1100000B79: FE FF
     12}}}
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     14If I understand the game script correctly, it waits for each of the four symbols or digits, and if it's not the expected one a variable is set to 1 to indicate that the code you entered was incorrect.
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     16The crack changes this so that if you get the ''last'' one wrong the variable is set to 0 instead, indicating that the correct code was entered. (Which means that even with the crack, there is a pretty decent chance that you will enter an incorrect code because if you get the last one right you have to get the first three right as well.)