today i was looking for a method to crack The Colonel's Bequest, so i don't have to do the ridiculous fingerprint copy protection every time i load the game
i stumbled upon chris's amazing analysis of an (in)famous one-byte crack for the game, that first appeared on BBSes in 1989. the one-byte hexedit tricks the game into forcing the first fingerprint option to be the correct one every time.
unfortunately... it has a brutal side effect: using this particular skip instruction on the engine, it destroys the randomized generation that makes Colonel's Bequest very special compared to most other adventure games.
it's a fab read if you're into emergent gameplay, byte code and design
https://www.benshoof.org/blog/case-cracked
#adventureGames #dosgaming
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