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                               Proudly Presents

ΙΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝΝ»
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί                    Diablo (c) Blizzard Entertainment                        Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
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Ί  Cracked by ³ Cyber                  ³   Release date ³ Jan. 13th, 1997     Ί
Ί Stripped by ³ Cyber                  ³     Protection ³ Numerous CD-checks, Ί
Ί Supplied by ³ MindBender             ³                ³ MPQ-encryption      Ί
Ί Packaged by ³ Cyber & HOSON          ³      Game type ³ Arcade / RPG        Ί
Ί Playtesting ³ Cyber & HOSON          ³           Size ³ 50 x 2.88           Ί
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Ί  Min. Req's ³ Pentium 60+, 8MB RAM (16MB for network play), Windows 95 with Ί
Ί             ³ DirectX 2.0+ installed.                                       Ί
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Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί   RELEASE INFO:                                                             Ί
Ί  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                                            Ί
Ί  First of all, this release is intended for the vast amount of gameplayers  Ί
Ί  out there and our own FTP sites. We don't recommend you to get this game   Ί
Ί  through a modem connection, but we know there are hundreds of people out   Ί
Ί  there with fast internet access who will download this game without hesi-  Ί
Ί  tating. We are aware of the fact that we are way over our heads putting    Ί
Ί  this release out, but then again, as previously stated, it's not intended  Ί
Ί  for the "inner" core of the elite "scene", but rather for the folks out    Ί
Ί  there who will enjoy playing this game. Quality software deserves to be    Ί
Ί  distributed, thus making the world a happier place to live in! :)          Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  Diablo is modeled to be a role-playing game, focusing heavily on adventure Ί
Ί  and real-time action. The atmosphere is reminiscent of the Dungeons and    Ί
Ί  Dragons RPG, providing a large dose of dungeon-romping spiced up with      Ί
Ί  magic, traps, and, of course, plenty of monsters. Intricate NPC (Non-      Ί
Ί  Player Character) interaction is also present, along with complete multi-  Ί
Ί  player support should the action elements ever become tiresome. Overall,   Ί
Ί  Diablo is designed to breathe life into the faltering computer RPG market  Ί
Ί  as a fresh and innovative game.                                            Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  The graphics and animation are stunning, providing a sense of realism      Ί
Ί  never found before in an RPG. The programming is top-notch, it's even      Ί
Ί  quite smooth on a 486DX2-80, considering it uses DirectX.                  Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  We have tested the game with both modem and battle.net connection, just    Ί
Ί  to ensure 100% functionality.                                              Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  Special thanks to DEAD IMAGE and LE VEY for helpin out with the original   Ί
Ί  so that we had the chance to play-test before release.                     Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  Also many thanks to OKKU@CHALMERS for programming the Hybrid Win 95 "intro"Ί
Ί  (which uses DirectX BTW!!)                                                 Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί   STRIPPING AND CRACKING INFO:                                              Ί
Ί  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                             Ί
Ί  From the journals of Cyber,                                                Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  DIABLO - A TALE OF BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS                                  Ί
Ί  (Cyber's cracking notes)                                                   Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  The first thing I had to do was to remove the CD-check, a simple 5 min job Ί
Ί  (although I admit I was a bit puzzled at first - this is my first win95    Ί
Ί  crack)                                                                     Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  Then began the work of ripping out data, and this was the tricky part.     Ί
Ί  What I had to work with in the beginning was a 506-meg data file which was Ί
Ί  not in any format I had ever seen before, but due to the fact that all     Ί
Ί  Windows DLLs must export the names of their functions, I was soon able to  Ί
Ί  locate the open- and readroutines. After a whole lot of fiddling I had     Ί
Ί  figured out the file format, and the decryptionroutines used. Yes, almost  Ί
Ί  all data was encrypted, but not all of it was compressed. The WAVs were    Ί
Ί  just scrambled so that they couldn't be compressed with ARJ etc. I         Ί
Ί  decrypted all WAVs using my homemade MPQ-manipulator. It made little sense Ί
Ί  to decrypt the compressed files, since that probably wouldn't have made theΊ
Ί  data file any smaller anyway. As I'm sure you all understand, something hadΊ
Ί  to go from the data file. The first files I removed were the animations    Ί
Ί  (intro, Blizzard's logo, ending, etc) but believe me - I've seen them all  Ί
Ί  and you're not missing much. Next came the WAVs I thought one could do     Ί
Ί  without. These unfortunately include the very mood-enhancing background    Ί
Ί  tunes. It's a shame they had to be removed, but hey - they were 12 megs    Ί
Ί  each, and there were quite a few of them. Next I removed all speech (it    Ί
Ί  showed up as text) and the characters' comments. The file was still        Ί
Ί  around 150 megs. I began to realize that this game would never fit onto    Ί
Ί  50 disks, it even seemed unlikely that it would take under 65. Even when   Ί
Ί  all possible sorts of data was removed (no sound at all, no loading-       Ί
Ί  pictures, no background gfx, etc) it still took about 75 disks. So why     Ί
Ί  didn't I remove all those files and make a sound add-on? Well, there are   Ί
Ί  two major reasons:                                                         Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  1) The data file doesn't store the names of its files, it just stores a    Ί
Ί  table of values who are the results of a hashing algorithm applied to the  Ί
Ί  filenames. Because of this you can't explicitly say what a file is called, Ί
Ί  even if you know where it begins and ends. You can draw some conclusions   Ί
Ί  from the file flags (encrypted and/or packed), but the only real source of Ί
Ί  information is what the fileopen routine is called with. This meant that   Ί
Ί  throwing away what appeared to be unused file entries seemed like a        Ί
Ί  dangerous action - you never know, maybe those files are used later in the Ί
Ί  game. The filenames could be composed in the exe, or encrypted, or hidden, Ί
Ί  or whatever. I only removed files when I was sure of their contents and    Ί
Ί  purpose. If Blizzard put in dummy files who are never actually used, they  Ί
Ί  sure fooled me.                                                            Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  2) Since the game would never make the 50 disk limit, it made no sense to  Ί
Ί  butcher it when you could release a fully enjoyable <100 disk version. I   Ί
Ί  still removed all sorts of speech, though (100 disks was sort of a 'magic' Ί
Ί  limit). The sounds the monsters make were thus taken out (e.g. The Butcher Ί
Ί  on level 2 said 'more meat for my axe' or something like that), but the    Ί
Ί  other effects were left in the game.                                       Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  Then we tried to play the game over the Internet. But we failed! The game  Ί
Ί  just came up with some BS about being unable to register the current       Ί
Ί  version. Hmmm... After a few scratches in the back of my head and some     Ί
Ί  practical experiments I came to the conclusion that something somewhere    Ί
Ί  checked if the EXE and the DLLs were altered. I did what I could to locate Ί
Ί  it but the boys at Blizzard had been veeery sneaky indeed: the check       Ί
Ί  routines were in a DLL which was hidden in an encrypted file which was     Ί
Ί  hidden somewhere in another file. Very stealthy! I managed to relocate     Ί
Ί  these routines and alter them, but the guys who came up with this          Ί
Ί  protection deserve a pat on the back. My hat's off to you, guys!           Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  So this is it. A game to big to be spread, but fully enjoyable and         Ί
Ί  playable. Enjoy!                                                           Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  Your friend,                                                               Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  Cyber/HYBRID                                                               Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί   INSTALLATION GUIDE:                                                       Ί
Ί  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                                      Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  Unzip the files and run INSTALL.EXE. Then just type 'DIABLO'.              Ί
Ί  We apologize for the use of a DOS installer, but our Windows version       Ί
Ί  isn't ready yet.                                                           Ί
Ί  NOTE that you NEED DirectX 2+ installed on your system and that product    Ί
Ί  isn't supplied with this game (not on the rip, anyway).                    Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί   HYBRID NEWS & EVENTS:                                                     Ί
Ί  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                                    Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  WITHDRAWAL                                                                 Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  Animal, Dogfriend and Drake has left Hybrid, and are now proud members of  Ί
Ί  Class. We wish them good luck!                                             Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί   GREETINGS:                                                                Ί
Ί  ~~~~~~~~~~~~                                                               Ί
Ί  Razor 1911, Prestige, Class, and Reflux.                                   Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
Ί  MindBender, Dead Image, Replicator, Manhunter, Mad Turnip, Shadow Master,  Ί
Ί  Angel Face, Animal, Dogfriend, Zimpzon, Phandral, TWK/ATX, Steel Pulse,    Ί
Ί  Rygar, Le Vey, Netra and everyone at Blizzard!                             Ί
Ί                                                                             Ί
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Ί                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                       Ί
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