For the record if I want to mod stuff I would always ask for permition first and maybe the origional sfx so I knew where everything went and or sent what I think some stuff should go and send the modified things to the developer or something.
At 03:53 a.m. 15/01/2007, you wrote: >even if you used resource files, the user can hack it with resourcehacker or >a similar program. i think if i wanted to hide my sounds i'd stick to >straight encryption. > >regards, > >damien > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Steve Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 1:05 PM >Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warrior > > >> If you create a game with external WAV files there's a risk that someone >> will come along with their copy of Goldwave, or some other such package, >and >> make changes. You can save them as a resource file which just adds it to >the >> executible, so you can end up with a huge executible which probably isn't >> healthy. Or you can use a simple trick which is to take, say, the intro >> sound file, which identifies your programme, make a note of the filesize >and >> take a fingerprint from it (say a dozen values from random locations >within >> the file). On starting, your executible could check the size of the intro >> file and the fingerprint and then refuse to run if it has been changed. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Behalf Of Liam Erven >> Sent: 14 January 2007 08:39 >> To: Gamers Discussion list >> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warrior >> >> >> it is not a matter of sounds. he has taken my executible and changed the >> sounds to fit his concept. that is wrong and trama is no excuse. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:09 AM >> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warrior >> >> >> > Hay guys please understand ivan's situation. The boy lost his dad and >his >> > brother. He is really a trauma case. He's not himself. John, his mentor >> > assured me that ivan isn't using liam's sounds anymore. Ivan begged so >> > many >> > times to get back onto this list. >> > It happened all like this: one day I received out of the blue a message >> > from >> > ivan threatening me that he will ban me from his list. He accused me of >> > jumping down him. So I wrote him a straight forward message back telling >> > him >> > that he is the guilty one, he stole another dev's ideas AND NOW HE >WANTS >> > TO >> > BAN ME FROM his list while I'm innoscent. I told him that in south >> > Africa >> > kids who did something like that were either prisoned or spanked. john >> > and >> > ivan begged me to please understand that he is going through a lot of >> > trauma. >> > Ivan has begged me so many times to ask Thomas to put him back on list. >If >> > one goes through trauma you are not yourself and you do things that you >> > won't do if you were not in trauma. Ivan noticed his mistake and once >> > again >> > john assured me he left liam's sounds. >> > So this is the contact I had with ivan and what I can tell you guys . >> > Please give him another chance. Although it might sound like liams's >> > sounds, >> > john assured me it isn't. >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Behalf Of Thomas Ward >> > Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:19 AM >> > To: Gamers Discussion list >> > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Dragon Warrior >> > >> > Hi Josh and all, >> > I am not certain that Dragon Warrior is an actual game. Previously, on >> > this list Ivan, the aledged developer of Dragon Warrior, took Liam's >> > game Super Liam, modified the sounds, and attempted to pass it off as >> > Dragon Warrior. It was one of the factors that wound up getting him >> > banned from this forem. >> > According to the recent podcast it still seams like Super Liam with a >> > bunch of new sounds added, and a few other nifty tricks to throw you >> > off. So bottom line I really don't trust Ivan or his word very much. >> > One other thing is in the last Audyssey magazine I remember someone else >> > was supposed to be designing Dragon Warrior, and that person and company >> > was not Ivan. My guess is Ivan took the name of an unfinished game and >> > slapped it on his aledged creation. >> > Sorry folks to be so negative about this, but I just can't trust him >> > much after his last endever on this forem. >> > Smile. >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Gamers mailing list .. 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