times that I have seen turned with GPL on VROC lately make me start to
wonder if someone has cracked this game and made some patches. Let's face
it: even though Papy could have made it very difficult by burying their
algorithms and using floating-point math (which has much harder values to
locate), any code can be reverse-engineered if you have the time and tools
to do it. Can this possibly be happening already? Or, is it a matter of
discovering some loopholes in the algorithms, such as the "lowrider" setups?
(Note: I'll admit that I'm not a good enough driver to keep up with the
fastest, but the differences in times are getting somewhat ridiculous.)
One interesting safeguard would be to have GSB check the copy of GPL.EXE by
using a checksum of some sort. Unfortunately, this would also catch out
those of us who have "patched" the game to change "Murasama" to "Honda",
etc. Of course, just like all the copy protection schemes are eventually
broken, anything can be defeated when you have access to the computer and
software that is running on it.
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Doug Gordon
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