MSX crack intros

Champion (269)

14-02-2015, 14:12

Reading in this thread about games
cracked from cart and onto tape had me thinking..

Crack intros were never used on MSX1? I've seen a few intros on SVI-3X8 that were added to games ported down from MSX.. Like this one..

Here is a old thread about the same..

Id really much like some pointers to MSX games with crack intros.. Also trained games and other historical information regarding this topic very much wanted..

By Manuel

Ascended (19678)

14-02-2015, 17:13

Some cracked disk games had intros, but the only one that comes to mind is the Starcracks intro in SD Snatcher.

I've never seen any crack intro on MSX1 games, only some loading screens with the title and some "cracked by" message.

By meits

Scribe (6571)

14-02-2015, 17:24

Gorby's Pipeline has a cracked intro as well... Actually I never saw a dump of the original...

By mtn

Champion (269)

15-02-2015, 02:57

What about MSX2 crack intros then? Some mentioned in the thread I already posted a link to..
Id like to see these intros..

By Sylvester

Hero (593)

15-02-2015, 09:53

Strategic Mars has a SMA Crack intro

By Grauw

Ascended (10821)

15-02-2015, 11:07

Metal Gear 2 had a crack intro iirc... I've seen quite a few of them.

By MCS

Supporter (6)

16-02-2015, 12:00

Metal Gear 2 even has two crack intro's.
There was a 'hidden' one made by Martos and Iceman.
(With a picture of Martos and Iceman)

By Samor

Prophet (2220)

16-02-2015, 13:17

There were lots of MSX1 games that came with white text (the game's title) on a blue border with black background in their loader. That was just a simple basic intro but I've seen it with lots of cracked games. I wonder who made it, it seemed pretty widely used.

By meits

Scribe (6571)

16-02-2015, 18:19

We adapted that one when we made dIIsk

We just added a status bar...

The funny thing is that the original loader is in screen 2 and gets built with line and print commands.
The bold font is made by printing is x+1 and y+1 for a second time. This didn't work in screen 5 which we used. Pitty because I would've loved it to do it the same way :)

By Manuel

Ascended (19678)

16-02-2015, 18:41

I think it can work in screen 5, but I forgot how... something with setting the bg color to 0. But that doesn't make sense now... Who remembers?

By Grauw

Ascended (10821)

16-02-2015, 19:51

Haha yes Meits I remember that cracktro now .