S K I D R O W
.the leading force.

proudly presents
Trials Fusion (c) Ubisoft

27-04-2014......Release Date - Protection.........UbisoftSteam
Racer..............Game Type - Disk(s)....................1 DVD

PROPER NOTES

In the past we used to protect our creations, but lately we have found
out, that even the most functional cryptationtools, have certain limits
when i comes to prevent it from stealing cpu resources.

Furthermore we have noticed, that some people that use our releases,
sometimes have issues with our work being notified as dangerous, when
they run them on machines with certain antivirus, spam, spyware etc.
programs. Therefore we have decided to let our work, which is OUR work,
be as clean and direct as you can get it.

Time went by, and The Leading Force wasn't living up to being The
Leading Force on the outside, then we do keep on working on "something"
within the group. And from time to time, release something to keep our
fans happy - and nobody knows what the future brings. -)

While we do LOVE competition and challenges, so when new game iso
groups rise, they for sure get our attention, when it comes to their
work on emulating services as the wellknown Steam and Ubisoft ones.

These "protections" are not hard to do, but damn time consuming to
build from the ground and up.

Some of these "new" groups have borrowed Steam emu-code and ideas from
public places, and maybe even hired persons from these places too.
That would at least explain why there stille are tags from those places
inside their code.

Then a group like CODEX comes into the scene doing Steam and recently
a Ubisoft protected game release - Trials.Fusion-CODEX.

While looking inside their emulationcode, we discovered something that
was about to shock us completely.

It was OUR work, OUR emulator, and CODEX must be stupid to think, that
we don't mark our code, but we had it clean on our screens, that CODEX
are theives of our Ubisoft emu. 99 procent of all their API calls in
the code is identical with ours.

We did of course plant several "stealth" API calls, that identify and
tag our work. Yet those API calls are inside the CODEX emulation dlls.

http://www.anonimg.com/img/831caf16ec0951cf88f9749b1fd569fa.jpg

Link above show one, out of many proofs of stolen code. It shows the
original function written by the coder, using a global variable for
another function. Basicially the way the coder wrote the API, to set
the flag is unique, and simply copy and paste of our code by CODEX.

To finalize their CODEX stupidity - they set the wrong parameter for
"CreateFile" API when it comes to "folders". We do use "GENERICREAD",
cause of an important point, Windows simply dont allow "GENERICALL"
without admin rights.

End of story

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                           Trials Fusion STATEMENT
   
     Release Date :  4/2014                   Protection : Brains
     Discs        :  1                        Genre      : Action RPG
   
   
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   CODEX is rather new to the scene, so it was to be expected
   that one of the old established groups would sooner or later
   start picking at us. Now Skid Row took a poor attempt to
   actually score again in a scene that has overtaken them ...
   
   If you are throwing accusations of stolen code around , atleast
   make sure your information is correct.
   We did not copy your code , nor do we have any interest in copying it.
   After investigating your emu, we find that your code is hilarious
   and lacking , but we do not hold this against you and we encourage
   everybody who is able to verify that the two emulators are different
   in numerous ways that disproves any claims of copying. More about
   the difference further at the bottom.
     
   The reasons given for a PROPER release of Trials Fusion are
   so far fetched, that we decided to clear a few things up. So
   heres an extract of Skid Rows accusations with our statements:
   
   
   SKIDROW: "99 procent of all their API calls in the
            code is identical with ours."
   CODEX:   Of course thats the case because we are trying
            to emulate uplay, and thats how uplay works.
            So if you take a look at ANY other UBI emu
            available - you will definetly find a lot
            of code loking alike.
            Like the simplest of all; return 0/1.
            This is in fact the most used way of returning
            a function that has no real value in the game.
   
   SKIDROW: "We did of course plant several "stealth" API calls,
            that identify and tag our work. Yet those API calls
            are inside the CODEX emulation dlls."
   CODEX:   Which API calls are you referring to then?
            Maybe they are too stealth that they can't be found
            anymore ...
   
   SKIDROW: "Link above show one, out of many proofs of stolen
            code. It shows the original function written by
            the coder, using a global variable for another
            function. Basicially the way the coder wrote
            the API, to set the flag is unique, and simply
            copy and paste of our code by CODEX."
   CODEX:   The "unique" flag you supposedly set, is actually in
            OUR code a DWORD array which holds a simple value
            for telling the function that is called - to define
            if the Overlap Operation has been completed or not.
            Now how unique is that approach ? ...
   
   SKIDROW: "To finalize their CODEX stupidity - they set the
            wrong parameter for "CreateFile" API when it comes
            to "folders". We do use "GENERIC_READ", cause of
            an important point, Windows simply don`t
            allow "GENERIC_ALL" without admin rights."
   CODEX:   Didn't you accuse us that we copy/pasted your
            entire emu ? So why are there differences now ?   
            Maybe because we coded everything ourselves ..
            Thanks for pointing that out.
           
   As a result to this pathetic attempt to make everyone believe
   we are copycats, we had to spend some time looking into their
   crappy code and found some interesting and obvious differences:
   
   - CODEX emu is written in c++ , SR emu is written in ASM - how
     can you blindly copy/paste there ?
   - CODEX emu uses 76 Imports, SR emu uses 27 Imports
   - CODEX emu has 75 Exports, SR emu has 70 Exports
   - CODEX doesn't use file padding, SR does
   - CODEX uses heaprealloc and heapsize, SR doesn't
   - CODEX emu doesn't need a patched .exe in Trials Fusion
     to work, SR emu does need it ...
   - CODEX uses 6 vars for their read function, SR uses 7 vars
   - .....
   
   We could go on showing you a lot more differences, but we don't
   think it's worth the effort since nothing is stolen.
   
   Concerning your nice little picture where you "busted" us,
   here's our 2 cents to this awesome finding :
   
   Our original c++ code :
   
   UPLAY_R1_LOADER int UPLAY_HasOverlappedOperationCompleted
   (TwoDwords * OverlappedOperationCompleted)
   {
      if (OverlappedOperationCompleted->a2){
        Ovrlaped[0] = DWORD(&OverlappedOperationCompleted->a1);
         return 0;
   }
     else return 1;
   }
   
   ... in a debugger it looks like this:
   
   0FFD1A92 >/$  55            PUSH EBP
   0FFD1A93  |.  8BEC          MOV EBP,ESP
   0FFD1A95  |.  8B45 08       MOV EAX,DWORD PTR SS:[EBP+8]
   0FFD1A98  |.  8378 04 00    CMP DWORD PTR DS:[EAX+4],0
   0FFD1A9C  |.  74 09         JE SHORT 0FFD1AA7
   0FFD1A9E  |.  A3 A0D8FE0F   MOV DWORD PTR DS:[FFED8A0],EAX
   0FFD1AA3  |.  33C0          XOR EAX,EAX
   0FFD1AA5  |.  5D            POP EBP
   0FFD1AA6  |.  C3            RETN
   0FFD1AA7  |>  33C0          XOR EAX,EAX
   0FFD1AA9  |.  40            INC EAX
   0FFD1AAA  |.  5D            POP EBP
   0FFD1AAB  \.  C3            RETN
   
   
   CODEX is open for a head to head discussion about this issue. You guys
   know where to find us! We will no further have this silly discussion
   in public anymore .. We have nothing to hide and wont participate in
   your "let's beat the new guy before he gets too strong" mission.
   
   
   
   
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