Cracked BT3 for C64

DenTarr · Post by **DenTarr** » Thu May 03, 2012 11:31 am

Hi all

I recently wanted to walk down Memory Lane again with playing Bards Tale 3. Used the available .d64 set and all was well till the teleport to Arborea: the Codewheel jumped in.

Now I started to look everywhere on the net. But there simply is no properly cracked C64 version around. There are some which claim to be (from Triad or Lithium) but in fact, none are.

So I thought "Hey when enjoying the old times, why not dust off the old cracking skills.

After some work fiddling around a Freezer Cartridge and Disassembler I have been seeing the long forgotten knowledge returning.
I did come up with a crack in the end, a classical 1 Byte Crack too. So no more Code Wheel

Dont know if people are interested in it here. If that is the case Id be happy to upload it somewhere.

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Fri May 04, 2012 4:14 am

I imagine Brian The Fish would be happy to host it.

DenTarr · Post by **DenTarr** » Fri May 04, 2012 4:32 pm

Well for all who are interested:

http://www.brutalupload.com/file/index.php?f=n1oqnPCk

Hope this works. Never used 1-click hosters before.

Its the normal four .d64 version + a Character Disk .d64 with my crack and another Character Disk .d64 with my crack and a level 1 party with lots of xp and gold.

At the Code Wheel check when changing dimensions, just enter anything. (But DO enter something. Just pressing RETURN wont do)

I wanted to make a cracktro, too, to make it complete. But sadly I dont have any of the old tools and resources left and starting all from scratch is just too much hassle.

DenTarr · Post by **DenTarr** » Sat May 05, 2012 3:26 pm

Okay another version. Here I removed the check alltogether. For all those who just dont want to see any Codewheel request at all:

http://www.brutalupload.com/file/index.php?f=Du0a7KBV

Twoflower · Post by **Twoflower** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 12:12 am

Are you sure that the Triad version not working properly? Janitor knew his stuff.

As far as I remember it, it requests a code from the codewheel, but it doesn't care what code you enter?

DenTarr · Post by **DenTarr** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:27 am

Yep I am sure. I did check the available versions before I started all that work

The request for the wheel is there and if you enter incorrect you are stuck. Tried all the 4 version I could find including Triad.

Chaney · Post by **Chaney** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 7:35 pm

I tried the link on both Firefox, IE and Chrome, and all I get is a blank page.

8bitweapon · Post by **8bitweapon** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 6:45 pm

I'd love to see a dual disk drive version of bt3! Anyone wanna do that?

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:13 pm

8bitweapon wrote:I'd love to see a dual disk drive version of bt3! Anyone wanna do that?

Did you read the thread before posting?

8bitweapon · Post by **8bitweapon** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:25 pm

Yes, so I thought "hey these guys can mod bt3 why not ask about adding a second drive".

After, I realized there was already a thread for this topic. Oops~!

Twoflower · Post by **Twoflower** » Sat Mar 23, 2013 1:19 am

Did anybody download this? I'd love to have a copy.

After much digging, I have found a rare version from an old german group, Empire, which features the code-wheel removal. Not as cleanly done as removing it alltogether - if you are reading this DenTarr, it would be nice if you could upload your last copy once more.