Ladder Enforcmenet -- Investigating some Irregularities

by **Drakona** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 11:56 am

Followup:

Lotharbot asked Tylo (owner of the most extensive collection of Descent editions in the world

) -- to send him HOG and PIG files from every version he'd opened, so we could compare. He agreed to help out, and sent me the following:

D1 USA Loose
Descent Venture Pack Germany
Descent 1.0 Disk 1 February 01, 1996 Developers Disk
Descent Anniversary Edition
Descent Destination Saturn no manual
Descent Destination Saturn with Manual
Descent EUR Boxed
Descent I and II The Deffinitive Collection
Descent Pret a Jour France
Descent USA Boxed

Ok, cool. Do any match AOD_Hi's files?

Yeah, actually. The files in "Descent 1.0 Disk 1 February 01, 1996 Developers Disk" and "Descent USA Boxed" match AOD_Hi's files exactly, bit for bit.

. . . wait, "Descent USA Boxed"? Apparently. That implies that the commonly accepted fusion value . . . was patched in after release!

Who knew? (I sure didn't)

by **Ryguy** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 4:18 pm

That's fascinating.

by **melvin** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 9:10 am

nice to hear, thanks for the follow up

by **PFunk** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:19 am

Good find! A decade later and still learning new things about Descent