Amiga Game "Debut"

[Darksun777]

Hi there,

i have a question about the Amiga Game "Debut".

The game seems to be preserved in english version (SPS ID 2999).

Note: The Database on the SPS webpage has an error, the game could not be found when searching for "debut".
Searching for "Planet Simulations" brings this result:

2999 Début - Planet Simulation

Martin has dumped the german version of the game.
When i check the stream (raw) files with CTA, all tracks 0-79 shows AmigaDOS but it does not work when re-written to disk (with .IPF). After the game has loaded it shows "insert original disk a".

Tracks 80-83 shows "Recording noise - not recorded".

Is anything known about the copy protection of this game?

Thanks.

[IFW]

Yes, as far as I remember it had a pretty wicked protection... at least the one that was dumped.
Is the new version available?

[Darksun777]

Yes we have a dump of it.
I can upload it anywhere if you wanna have a look?

could you explain the protection and how to get it running with CTA?

[IFW]

Can't remember, but can take a look at the dump. CTA definitely has a format descriptor for the protection used though.
Please upload it to the SPS contributor FTP.

[mr.vince]

Simply try loading REL file?

[Darksun777]

Can't remember, but can take a look at the dump. CTA definitely has a format descriptor for the protection used though.
Please upload it to the SPS contributor FTP.

Uploaded to /DUMPS/AMIGA/Darksun777

[Darksun777]

Simply try loading REL file?

i dont have the IPF of the english version

[mr.vince]

Apex has access to the archive, he can pull it for you.

[IFW]

If you have that the IPX file it can be imported to CTA, and it will set each track description correctly, so you can take a look.
Note, that there is no guarantee that your version is the same as the release, so be careful.

[Darksun777]

So i was able to load the ipx and got a positive result, the game is running now.

The protection was on two tracks, there was set the following format:

AmigaDOS,FF-32_2 a145
AmigaDOS,FF-32_2 a144

Could you explain what this is? I would love to know more about this type of protection.

Thanks!

PS: Everytime when i import settings with a .IPX file i got a "crc missmatch" error - but the settings gets imported correctly. i dont know why.