Copy protection Tages, thought to be vanished from the market, seems to be protecting the latest game from software developer Titus, titled RoboCop. The protection uses twin sectors to decrypt game levels on the fly and setup game data. Files that reveal that Tages is present are: ManualsSystem9xTamlx.alf, ManualsSystem9xTamlx.apt, ManualsSystemNTenodpl.sys, ManualsSystemNTlitdpl.sys. According to a reverse engineer this seems to be a new version of Tages as its memory footprints are different from other versions. The protection is for now not detected by Clony.
An example of the protection:
First seeking to sector 235303 and reading gives us,
00 00 02 00 C9 E9 88 AC C1 ED E1 F0 85 75 3C AD
E9 5F 79 56 DC 95 2A BE CC 89 4B 88 87 39 61 6F
Now seek to sector 0 and read then back to 235303 and we now have
05 CB 86 20 64 B5 45 0E CF 25 0E E7 28 F3 8D 5B
FC D0 25 59 C4 0D 37 41 46 0F E0 55 79 51 18 FB
Source: Exclusive
