Published by gawd February 28th, 2007
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Ahhhhh….
Those were the days; Black Bag cracks Karateka and Situation Critical, allowing me, (back then) a 6 years old kid to copy these games with Copy II PC and play them instead of doing homework (or even going to school, but don’t tell..)
Credit where credit is due: the screenshots were taken from Textfiles.com and were collaged into one big poster.
My favorites (in no particular order): Captain Goodnight and The Islands of Fear, Karateka, Powerbots, Dung Beetles, Star Blaser, Pest Patrol, Rescue Raiders, Raid Over Moscow, Hard Hat Mack, Spy’s Demise, Situation: Critical (BEST!), Moon Patrol, Pacman (best version imo), The Bilestoad, Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory, Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego, Alien Typhoon, Castle Wolfenstein, Choplifter, Star Blazer (Tony Suzuki is genius!), Swashbuckler!, Conan, Montezuma and Cavern Creatures.
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Published by gawd February 28th, 2007
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Birthday came and passed (phew!.) I took the day off and did some sleeping (finally) and then some thinking. Among my (new-)year’s resolutions, I realized that it has been quite a while since I did anything artistic. Up until half a year ago, I’ve been composing crappy riffs, doing lots of photography, game hacking, technology hacking, rewriting favorite games, writing articles, elaborating my musical knowledge, photoshopping and just coding for fun.
So, I started hacking Guitar Hero again. A few months ago I tried to write a studio toolkit, to allow people to write their own songs (and mainly to have Guitar Hero - Complete Therapy? Version.) It has been long since then, but I remember I stopped at some point because the titles for the album were compressed/encrypted.
Yesterday, while killing time on google, I stumbled upon a powerpoint presentation from Harmonix. They mentioned a feature that they removed. Let me freshen your memory: at the very end of 2006, Harmonix released a demo version of GH2. A few hackers played with it a bit and found that it was just a crippled version of the full game. They released 3 modified isos, each featured different unlocked songs from the upcoming full release. That kinda got me thinking.. If they did it once (twice actually, they also forgot the xbox images in the ps2 release..) then they might do it again.
Today I was toying around with copying sectors here and there, trying to get the game to run some unused files. I must say I haven’t made much progress, but I did get to play Bark at the Moon again..
Expect some GH hacks next week! 
Published by gawd February 25th, 2007
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Ahh.
Finally back home. It has been a long day of fixing bugs at the office and now it’s over. Thinking of what to write here, and then realizing that it’s only 11pm and my eyes burn even in darkness.
This means only one thing — I need sleep!
Tomorrow is my b-day. Happy b-day me. I’m taking a day off from life. The whole stress of own projects, errands, startups, bugfixes and life in general. Day off from life. I’m thinking of taking my camera for a ride in Jerusalem, the most beautiful city in the world. I hope they will like each other
Vi ses i morgen!
Published by gawd February 24th, 2007
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Wow; It has been a while!
I’ve been a changelog addict (like the rest of you) for a long time now. I had this wiki installed and I’ve been using it as blog! That was pretty lame, but I started it about 3-something years ago. I checked the last entry that I had there — it has been a few days before I moved to a different web hosting. To make a long story short, lunarpages was so freaking slow, that I couldn’t bare the speed enough to write anything online.
I’ve been busy the past year and a half; moved to Denmark for a job, came back, toured the world (a bit) and now back in my (un)comfy computer chair.
So, welcome everybody to my new blog
Hope you’ll enjoy the show.
