Bad idea: build a captcha library that embeds DOSBox so it can make you beat levels/puzzles from DOS games to continue.
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@onelson It's been stuck on a CD-ROM since 1997, so NOPE
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haha, 1991-1997 programmer: you made the LoadDirectSoundFuncptrs return a 0 for success, but you only ever return 0. your code smells with your bad decisions, which I can see THROUGH TIME from 30 years later
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you even check, in the calling code, that it returns 0 and not some other value. you have fallback code for if it fails.
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correction, you're returning a boolean.
and it's hardcoded to always return a 0, which is false.
so this ALWAYS fails.
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I'm guessing this is dummying out code that didn't work
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yeah this code is just casually mixing pascal and stdcall calling conventions. I am in hell
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okay yeah. this is not remotely delphi. this is C++. ghidra mis-detected it, and that may have messed up the analysis
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yep and it's buggered every single function, even after changing language. I can delete and recreate functions, but that might not fix them because they're getting hints from downstream functions which it still thinks are __fastcall and not __stdcall
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maybe I just need to delete every function and re-analyze from scratch
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by [email protected]
(i just re-imported the EXE as a new file, and I'll manually port over the dozen or so symbols I've found.)
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BTW it turns out there's cheats in the windows version.
maybe in the other versions too? I don't think anyone has found them if so.
https://www.speedrun.com/super_solvers_gizmos_and_gadgets/forums/vcalv
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I spotted them in the EXE and googled to see if they were known. Yep. At least in that one post!
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@foone Did T.L.C. use a common asset storage formats? I’m curious how I’d go about inspecting some of these uralt binaries.
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@matt I'm not sure yet, I've not been looking at the datafiles yet, just the EXE with Ghidra
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ah-ha!
see that?
They call GetVersion(), then no matter if it's below 4 or not, they jump to the SAME PLACE, and there's dead code below it.This EXE has been patched after compilation!
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yeah the EXE has a modification date of 1998, but the compile time inside the EXE says 1994
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They patched out this dialog box.
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I think the typo in the name is a bug on my resource viewer
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yeah, there's other dialogs like "you need to be in 386 enhanced mode!" that I think they just orphaned when they made this version win9x only
