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---------------Up'N Down---------------
A 4am crack 2015-08-03
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Name: Up'N Down
Genre: arcade
Year: 1984
Publisher: Sega
Media: single-sided 5.25-inch floppy
OS: custom
Previous cracks: The Cloak / Black Bag
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Chapter 0
In Which Various Automated Tools Fail
In Interesting Ways
COPYA
immediate disk read error
Locksmith Fast Disk Backup
unable to read any track
EDD 4 bit copy (no sync, no count)
works
Copy ][+ nibble editor
modified address and data epilogues
("AA DE EB" instead of "DE AA EB")
Disk Fixer
custom bootloader
no sign of DOS, ProDOS, or any OS
Also, this:
--v--
-------------- DISK EDIT --------------
TRACK $00/SECTOR $0F/VOLUME $FE/BYTE$00
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$00: >H<E L L O T H E R E T H I S
$10: I S T H E C R E A T O R
$20: O F U & D . T H I S S E C
$30: T O R O N T H E D I S K
$40: I S O F N O V A L U E A
$50: N D T H E R E I S N O S
$60: E N S E E V E N L O O K I N
$70: G A T I T . S O W H A T
$80: A R E Y O U D O I N G ! .
$90: P R O G R A M B Y E R I
$A0: C J . P O P E J O Y A N D
$B0: K E N O . J O R D A N .
$C0: K E N A L S O G O E S B Y
$D0: ' K E Y B O A R D O R J O
$E0: Y S T I C K ' . H A P P Y C
$F0: R A C K I N G ! 0 0 0 0 0 . H
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BUFFER 0/SLOT 6/DRIVE 1/MASK OFF/NORMAL
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COMMAND :
--^--
Why didn't COPYA work?
modified epilogue bytes (every track)
Why didn't Locksmith FDB work?
modified epilogue bytes (every track)
EDD worked. What does that tell us?
no half or quarter tracks
almost certainly no nibble check
just structural changes to epilogues
Next steps:
1. Super Demuffin
2. Patch RWTS
3. There is no step 3 (I hope)
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Chapter 1
In Which We Choose
The Right Tool For The Job
I'm going to use Super Demuffin here
(instead of my usual go-to conversion
tool, Advanced Demuffin). The disk uses
some custom bootloader that I've never
seen before, so my automated tools
can't capture the RWTS. Luckily, the
RWTS modifications are minor (custom
epilogue bytes, same on every track),
so Super Demuffin will work just fine.
When you first run Super Demuffin, it
asks for the parameters of the original
disk. In this case, the prologue bytes
are the same, but the epilogues are "AA
DE EB" instead of "DE AA EB".
--v--
SUPER-DEMUFFIN AND FAST COPY
Modified by: The Saltine/Coast to Coast
Address prologue: D5 AA 96
Address epilogue: AA DE EB DISK
^^^^^ ORIGINAL
change from DE AA ---+++++
Data prologue: D5 AA AD
Data epilogue: AA DE EB
^^^^^
change from DE AA ---+++++
Ignore write errors while demuffining!
D - Edit parameters
<SPACE> - Advance to next parm
<RETURN> - Exit edit mode
R - Restore DOS 3.3 parameters
O - Edit Original disk's parameters
C - Edit Copy disk's parameters
G - Begin demuffin process
--^--
Pressing "G" switches to the Locksmith
Fast Disk Copy UI. It assumes that both
disks are in slot 6, and that drive 1
is the original and drive 2 is the
copy.
[S6,D1=original disk]
[S6,D2=blank disk]
--v--
LOCKSMITH 7.0 FAST DISK BACKUP
R...................................
W***********************************
HEX 00000000000000001111111111111111222
TRK 0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF012
0...................................
1...................................
2...................................
3...................................
4...................................
5...................................
6...................................
7...................................
8...................................
9...................................
A...................................
B...................................
C...................................
D...................................
12 E...................................
F...................................
[ ] PRESS [RESET] TO EXIT
--^--
]PR#6
...boots to title screen then grinds...
Interesting. It booted much further
than I would have expected. (Usually
disks either work completely or fail
much sooner.)
My semi-educated guess: the disk is
using a flexible RWTS for most of the
initial loading, but not all of it. At
some point, it's switching to an RWTS
RWTS that cares about epilogue bytes,
and it grinds and fails because they've
now been standardized.
Of course, I could be totally wrong
about all of that.
~
Chapter 1
In Which We Confirm That
Hard Work Pays Off Over Time,
But Laziness Pays Off Right Now
Before I jump to full-on boot tracing,
I turn to my trusty Disk Fixer sector
editor and see if there is an RWTS in
evidence.
[Disk Fixer]
["F"ind]
["H"ex]
"BD 8C C0" ; "LDA $C08C,X"
There are several matches on track $00,
but as I suspected, that RWTS doesn't
care about epilogue bytes. But there
are also more matches on track $03.
Let's see what that's about...
T03,S03
----------- DISASSEMBLY MODE ----------
0040:A0 20 LDY #$20
0042:AE 25 0E LDX $0E25
0045:88 DEY
0046:F0 56 BEQ $009E
; find data prologue ("D5 AA AD")
0048:BD 8C C0 LDA $C08C,X
004B:10 FB BPL $0048
004D:49 D5 EOR #$D5
004F:D0 F4 BNE $0045
0051:BD 8C C0 LDA $C08C,X
0054:10 FB BPL $0051
0056:C9 AA CMP #$AA
0058:D0 F3 BNE $004D
005A:A0 56 LDY #$56
005C:BD 8C C0 LDA $C08C,X
005F:10 FB BPL $005C
0061:C9 AD CMP #$AD
0063:D0 E8 BNE $004D
.
.
.
; check one nibble of data epilogue
0095:BD 8C C0 LDA $C08C,X
0098:10 FB BPL $0095
009A:C9 AA CMP #$AA <-- !
009C:F0 4E BEQ $00EC
009E:38 SEC
009F:60 RTS
; find address prologue ("D5 AA 96")
00A0:A0 00 LDY #$00
00A2:AE 25 0E LDX $0E25
00A5:C8 INY
00A6:F0 F6 BEQ $009E
00A8:BD 8C C0 LDA $C08C,X
00AB:10 FB BPL $00A8
00AD:C9 D5 CMP #$D5
00AF:D0 F4 BNE $00A5
00B1:BD 8C C0 LDA $C08C,X
00B4:10 FB BPL $00B1
00B6:C9 AA CMP #$AA
00B8:D0 F3 BNE $00AD
00BA:BD 8C C0 LDA $C08C,X
00BD:10 FB BPL $00BA
00BF:C9 96 CMP #$96
00C1:D0 EA BNE $00AD
.
.
.
; check one nibble of address epilogue
00E3:BD 8C C0 LDA $C08C,X
00E6:10 FB BPL $00E3
00E8:C9 AA CMP #$AA <-- !
00EA:D0 B2 BNE $009E
00EC:18 CLC
00ED:60 RTS
Jackpot! It looks like it only checks
the first nibble of the address and
data epilogues, so let's try patching
those "AA" bytes to match the now-
standardized epilogues on my copy.
T03,S03,$9B change "AA" to "DE"
T03,S03,$E9 change "AA" to "DE"
]PR#6
...works...
There doesn't appear to be any further
protection.
Quod erat liberandum.
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A 4am crack No. 391
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