What about St*rforce ?

[dyn!o]

It seems there is no too much information about Staforce cracking

There is completely no useful information.

the more recent Will Of Steel (Starforce 3.4.67.7) cracked by Hoodlum

It's a fake relased by Hoodlum's competition. So far Ultima is the only one who cracked SF with VM (Xpand Rally + Colin 2005).

is the tutorial of yates called "StarForce 3 - Brief insight into a hidden world"

Unfortunately it's small and obsolete information concerning single SF VM instruction.

Good luck.

Hi !
Thank you all for your answers !... even if the last one doesn't sound pretty optimistic.

It seems to be a really hard target, but even if I'm almost sure of being unable to break it down, I'm just going to start a 'step by step' approach.
First, I'll follow niom's advice and try to use windbg instead of SI. Even if I'm not familiar with this proggy.
once again, thanx.

bye

[dyn!o]

Wow, you are a kind one (or just increment your posts counter? ).

Anyway, take my small advice: try to break XProtector first. If you will be not able to do it then do not touch Starforce. You will lose your time. If you will be able to break XProtector then you should be able to deal with Starforce.

Forget about anti-debug stuff, that's not the point.

Have you even wonder why XProtector or Starforce were cracked by 1-2 persons only? Look at all the information on the web. The funny thing is that people are fighing their (XP & SF)... anti-debug features. That is a serious mistake and it seems that it was the intention of authors (fool crackers by cracking their mind). Anti-debug features are for fun. It does not bring any serious shield because it has no logic inside. Do you want to defeat SF? Then first you have to write own logger, decompiler and the last one........ but hey.... you will know what after dealing with first two.

Good luck.

[Polaris]

Man, another reply like this and he will probably become a web-developer!!

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