[Scummvm-devel] Detecting patched games

Thierry Crozat criezy at scummvm.org
Fri Aug 13 20:13:50 CEST 2010


Le 13 août 2010 à 17:31, John Willis a écrit :

>> Thus, I would like to ask your opinion. What do you guys think about
> adding
>> a special game flag like ADGF_PIRATED, and keep those entries where
>> applicable. But during detection instead of our 'please submit md5'
> message
>> show something like: "Hacked game variant detected.
>> Skipping".
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
> 
> Sounds like an excellent idea to me and gives the project a 'standard' way
> of dealing with these things. 
> 
> Saying that, we may want to use a less scary term then hacked or we may get
> non-technical users panicking as to what 'hacked' the game. 'Illegitimate'
> maybe? Hmm really not sure that is better.

I like the idea as well. But I second John on his comment concerning 'hacked'.
I prefer 'Illegitimated' or maybe 'Pirated game copy'

Thierry





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