RTC.exe that skips intro
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 11:19 pm
Hi all. Having great fondness for this game (and all dungeon crawlers, really) I've always found RTC to be a fine piece of software. While it only emulates the original game mechanics, I found appealing that it does this very well, it merges all DM games into a single one and it enables lots of cool features in its dungeon editor. Very, very long time ago I had made two (rather mediocre) dungeons for original DM game and very, very long time ago I also attempted to learn RTC editor and its mechanics. Unfortunately, I was very quickly put off by the horrendously frustrating, unskippable intro.
While RTC's intro isn't very long, it becomes extremely annoying when you want to test your work in progress in frequent cycles. I quickly became bored of having to suffer through the animation every 5 minutes and dropped the work altogether.
Having recently acquired some new skills in computer science field I've suddenly also remembered this particular annoyance and today I decided to fix it once and for all. And so, here it is:
1. Mirror 1
2. Mirror 2
This is a cracked RTC v0.49 executable. Just drop it into the directory with RTC and run. If you're unsure of whether this is safe or not, then you're wise. However, if you do a binary comparison between the original executable and mine you will see that I only had to change one byte. Simple PUSH 2 opcode changed into PUSH 5 fixes the annoyance. If anyone of you wishes, I can make a video showcasing how I did this.
So, here you go. I see that RTC editing forum is still more or less active so I hope someone will find this useful. Enjoy.
While RTC's intro isn't very long, it becomes extremely annoying when you want to test your work in progress in frequent cycles. I quickly became bored of having to suffer through the animation every 5 minutes and dropped the work altogether.
Having recently acquired some new skills in computer science field I've suddenly also remembered this particular annoyance and today I decided to fix it once and for all. And so, here it is:
1. Mirror 1
2. Mirror 2
This is a cracked RTC v0.49 executable. Just drop it into the directory with RTC and run. If you're unsure of whether this is safe or not, then you're wise. However, if you do a binary comparison between the original executable and mine you will see that I only had to change one byte. Simple PUSH 2 opcode changed into PUSH 5 fixes the annoyance. If anyone of you wishes, I can make a video showcasing how I did this.
So, here you go. I see that RTC editing forum is still more or less active so I hope someone will find this useful. Enjoy.