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XyliGUN wrote on Sat, 10 July 2010 23:08

2. Copy Protection - this one is tricky. As you know x file contains serial hash (4 bytes) and hw id (11 bytes), so to fill it in correctly I'll need to somehow take it from stars.ini (it looks like it stored in GlobalSettings key). Does anybody know how to convert GlobalSettings value to serial hash? Looks like it's not the same encoding as one used for ship names and player messages, at least it doesn't match for my serial and actual hash.

PS: I'm also can fill this block with some default values (for example it could be specially aquired for API key), but this will break copy protection. And I don't like to go this way.

Just a small update on that: I'm still cannot decode GlobalSettings, but it seems that I found how does Stars! calculates hash from serial, which is stored in x file, so I hope this at least will gives a possibility to write x file without breaking Copy Protection.



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