28th September 2004, 1:03 PM
I know you keep forgetting... so how about clicking the link and at least bookmarking it? It is a truly great game that no adventure game fan should miss.
Copyright protection... at least in the KQV CD version they removed it! They forgot to do that for QFGIV... it's not a big problem as all you have to do is get three formulas from a list (and not all at the same time), but it's an annoyance worth mentioning anyway.
Yeah, I have several games with the standard 'word x from paragraph y of page z' (including The Lost Vikings and Castles I)... it works, but it's definitely a boring form of protection. It's great that Sierra was more inventive. However, as you say it doesn't do much for protection when you can just get a list... that's where codewheels come in. You know, line up the two or three wheels and type in the number... THOSE are extremely hard to break without a copy of the wheel. Breaking protection in those games involves cracking the game so that it doesn't need the codes anymore...
Copyright protection... at least in the KQV CD version they removed it! They forgot to do that for QFGIV... it's not a big problem as all you have to do is get three formulas from a list (and not all at the same time), but it's an annoyance worth mentioning anyway.
Yeah, I have several games with the standard 'word x from paragraph y of page z' (including The Lost Vikings and Castles I)... it works, but it's definitely a boring form of protection. It's great that Sierra was more inventive. However, as you say it doesn't do much for protection when you can just get a list... that's where codewheels come in. You know, line up the two or three wheels and type in the number... THOSE are extremely hard to break without a copy of the wheel. Breaking protection in those games involves cracking the game so that it doesn't need the codes anymore...
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