Send me your copy protecting screenshoots plz

[SvenBent]

As I'm not really playing MoO for the time I'm lacking some of the screenshots to finish off the Ship identification chart i wanted to make for myself. and I hate leaving a "project" halfway finished

So if you guys could use the ctrl +f5 in dos box to make a screenshot when the game ask You to identify a ship. I don't need the answers just the screenshot.
Please don't use windows screenshot functions. using dos box ctrl+F5 will make sure they all look alike despite different scale Engines and sizes

Thank you for any help

[RFS-81]

Here are the latest two I've seen. BTW, they both appeared in a single game. Did that ever happen to anyone else?

       

What exactly do you plan to do with them? Are you making a reference card?

[SvenBent]

I've seen 2 copy protection checks in one game before i think it was with the 1.3 version.
and yes I'm making a need reference card. the official unofficial one looks pretty bad.

oh and thank you for the help :D

[Ianus]

I don't know if it would help but buried somewhere deep within the Unofficial Patch thread is an extraction utility that will extract all ship graphics (among others) from the game files. I built my avatar with it and it is pretty awesome! Some coding is required as in its native form it will overwrite the ship graphics during extraction but there is code provided in the thread to fix the problem. Like I said if you ever want access to MoO graphics to play around with that is how to get them.

[HansLemurson]

Am I correct in assuming that you already know about this?

(image leached from here: http://www.freegameempire.com/games/mast...ion/manual)

[SvenBent]

I don't know if it would help but buried somewhere deep within the Unofficial Patch thread is an extraction utility that will extract all ship graphics (among others) from the game files. I built my avatar with it and it is pretty awesome! Some coding is required as in its native form it will overwrite the ship graphics during extraction but there is code provided in the thread to fix the problem. Like I said if you ever want access to MoO graphics to play around with that is how to get them.

i might see if i can get that to work


@HansLemurson

Yeah I've seen it but i don't like it.
it look horrible it seems like it was once a jpeg file (Compression noise) and/or has been reduced in colors ( probably when converting it back to png). The quality is just horrible and washed out.
My other idea is to put my version into MoOCompanion so you can pop up the cheat sheet with a simple hotkey.

[Ianus]

It may interest you to know that both version 1.4 and the version of 1.3 available through GOG.com (with SOUND!!!) have disabled the copy protection so that any guess counts as correct. I personally dislike this feature as I enjoy the guessing (and I've basically memorized the ships at this point) but that's just me. I do open up that cheat sheet if I guess wrong twice in a row so for me your hotkey idea would be ideal. Anyway I love your augment ideas. Keep up the great work!

[HansLemurson]

So, are the images themselves what you need, or are you looking for the "correct names" as well?

[SvenBent]

@ianus

Thats good news but i still prefer my old version. Sound always worked here i think.

@HansLemurson
Yes just the pictures i have the right answers i just need the ship pictures

[HansLemurson]

Is taking screen-caps from the ship design screen and cycling through all the models for each race-color not adequate for your purposes? What's special about the copy protection screens? I think I'm missing something here.