In April 2004, Nokia released the N-Gage QD, which fixed some of the previous system's flaws. Not only was it smaller and rounder than before, but it also had the MMC cartridge slot conveniently placed on the bottom, with Nokia even going so far as to releasing an "MMC Expander" accessory allowing players to carry two games at a time and switch between them as needed. The speaker and mic were also moved to the front of the system, making phone calls more convenient and less ridiculous. However, features like MP3 playback and USB connectivity were removed to cut costs, though the former can be brought back through third-party media players.
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Because of these many physical drawbacks and the lack of quality games, the N-Gage sold poorly and was ridiculed by gamers and Nokia fans. To Nokia's benefit it wasn't released in Japan, which would've made it even more of a joke like how the Xbox family was (and still is). Not even the QD was able to boost sales since so few were aware of the redesign. Nokia quietly discontinued the system in 2007 in favor of more-conventional candybar-shaped phone models.
This article will focus on the differences between a retail dump of a game and a cracked version of the same title which I both obtained from the Internet Archive, in order to better understand the copy protection mechanisms, to ultimately adapt and apply the techniques developed by the crackers.
In order to compare the folders containing the files of the cracked and uncracked version to each other, I used WinMerge. WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.
For the purpose of this research, I worked on one of the more recent games that was previously cracked by a group called PWNPDA that did not disable the N-Gage Arena feature, thus making this crack limited to the essentials, with minimal impact and changes to the game files. Perfect!
The warez group BiNPDA for instance, created their very own proprietary cracking method to achieve this. Most games released by them use a loader, developed for this particular reason, which patches the uncracked executable file, while also faking several hardware conditions such as MMC size, MMC ID, etc.
To get an overview of the modifications made, still without understanding exactly what they did, I opened HxDHxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size. and pressed Ctrl+k to start a hex comparison of the cracked and uncracked executable:
Even though I did not manage to figure out every little detail of the copy protection mechanisms, and frankly, this was never my goal, I put my acquired findings to the test and tried to get a copy of a previously unreleased game to work on my regular N-Gage.
This copy had been circulating on the net for quite some time, after it was bought at an auction on eBay and made available on the internet by the buyer shortly after. Unfortunately, this copy only ran on a special developer unit that was sold with the game.
After applying the proper adjustments, the game launched without any problems and I was able to experience a piece of lost video game history first hand. I also learned a lot about ARM assembly language and the basic process of reverse engineering.
Habbo Islands is a cancelled Nokia N-Gage title that would have been released in 2005.Developed by Sulake Incorporation for the Mobile Phone market to début with their other mobile phone game Habbo Dreams which was launched for Sony Ericsson phones in 2004, Habbo Island was going to be a single-player game that allowed players to explore an island and would have expanded upon the Habbo hotel lore.[1]
In September 2004, Finnish video game company Sulake launched Habbo Hotel in the United States, and the player base surged. Wanting to capitalize on the success of Habbo Hotel and the up and coming mobile phone game market, Sulake announced in October of 2005 that a spin-off game for the Nokia N-gage titled Habbo Islands would release in the second half of 2006.[2]
The game was postponed due to the development team feeling as though the hardware requirements just weren't there yet, and they put it on the back burner until (around) February 2005 when they started working on a prototype on the N-Gage platform. Habbo Island is estimated to have been between 90%-100% completed.
Due to declining sales and lack of popularity of the Nokia N-gage, Habbo Island was quietly cancelled at an unknown date. However, more than one build of the game has surfaced; the latest is 1.0.7, which was used in order to create the E3 demo.
A copy of Habbo Islands running on the E3 build of the game surfaced on January 1st, 2014. It was purchased on eBay with a Nokia N-Gage development unit by the YouTuber "Reiju." That same day, he dumped it and provided a download. It had copy protection and would not run on retail Nokia N-Gage devices. On November 17th, 2020, mupf managed to crack it and make it playable on all N-Gages.[3] The Ngage Scene released the crack soon after; it is available to download here.
Hello.. I know this post I from years ago but please I would really appreciate if u can re-upload the games.. some still working but there are others like the star wars that the link is broken.. please please help me!! ????
Nokia 's foray onto the mobile entertainment market, the N-Gage gaming deck, was dealt a blow this week when hackers were able to crack the security codes protecting its games from being pirated, with illegal copies being posted on the Internet.
This means the games can now be downloaded by anybody and will work on any handset running Nokia 's Series 60 software platform, used in N-Gage and its 3650 and 7650 camera phones, as well as some models made by Siemens and UK-based Sendo .
So instead, I created shortcuts for each game that just pointed to the emulator but are named after the game (this is time consuming - I hope someone figures out a better way). I installed them as "other" not ROMs - with no emulator.
This part was tricky to figure out - for - you have to load the emulator - go to launch app - and find the actual title used to launch the game. Sometimes they don't match the title of the game. For instance, Crash Nitro Kart - was actually - --app CNK --fullscreen - - I think with other ROM sets this might be easier - since these were cracked the names may have been changed. For instance, I couldn't get Rayman 3 to launch through command line - but when I got another copy from THE EYE - it worked fine.
This part was tricky to figure out - for - you have to load the emulator - go to launch app - and find the actual title used to launch the game. Sometimes they don't match the title of the game. For instance, Crash Nitro Kart - was actually - --app CNK --fullscreen - - I think with other ROM sets this might be easier - since these were cracked the names may have been changed. For instance, I couldn't get Rayman 3 to launch through command line - but when I got another copy from THE EYE - it worked fine.
What i have done is install on games on the emulator e drive. created text files with the gameid name (Install as rom). used default command line --fullscreen --app quotes and file name only checked off
Okay so this worked for me kind of, but still had issues with some games that I knew worked in the emulator outside of launchbox, but not when launched from launchbox. (Requiem from Hell for instance would launch when directly launched from the eka2l1 emulator but not from the files darkshade had provided in launchbox) Here's what I did to fix that issue and hopefully this helps someone in the future if they run into the same issues that I was having and thanks to Darkshade and Mr.Laor for all the info they and their posts on the subject provided. (Most of this post is basically a carbon copy just with tweaks to file names and condensed into one post)
The blank files will all have odd names like 0x101F402 and the reason for this is those are the App IDs for each game in the emulator and will correspond to the shortcuts that we will need to make in step four.
and place it in the folder where you stored your command line folder from step 3. Now its time to import your games into launchbox. Import all the files from the command line folder you downloaded in step 3 as "Roms" and scrape for the platform "Nokia N-Gage". You will most likely not get any art work as the games will all be labeled the odd file names like 0x101f409 so don't panic.
6. Once all your games are imported close launchbox and Download this. It's a filled out platform xml file that needs to replace the one launchbox just created in LaunchBox\Data\Platforms\Nokia N-Gage.xml
Now as far as I know there are a few games that A)Do not work correctly, B)Do not have box art/meta data, C)only work on certain Symbian Operating systems like RH-4. I have only tested all the games I have on two of them (RH-4 and RH-29) but I compiled a list of working and not working with app IDs into this Excel sheet and maybe it will help others in getting the rest of the library to work correctly. That excel sheet can be found here. 2ff7e9595c
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