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Post by Shieldwolf on Sept 19, 2011 14:22:16 GMT
81,000? ha! piece of cake!
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Post by Mr.UNleash on Sept 19, 2011 23:26:23 GMT
Yay it seems we have a volunteer. Good Luck! Better get started ;D Nevermind, it seems to only be 10,000. But this is only for 4-digit passwords, and only numbers. If letters are used then it may be 81,000. Also, the password could be extremely long for all we know. Even for 5 digits the numbers could rise tens of thousands EDIT 2: I found a list of the people that made empire earth here: www.mobygames.com/game/windows/empire-earth/creditsThe first few people may know the password. Alright everyone, looks like we're going on a manhunt ;D Maybe if we beg them enough they'll give it to us
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Post by Halfaya on Sept 20, 2011 8:08:34 GMT
GUYS! I HAVE GREAT NEWS THEN BAD NEWS THEN GOOD NEWS
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Post by scutarilegion on Sept 20, 2011 9:49:57 GMT
Well, what are you waiting? Tell 'em!
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Tal
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Post by Tal on Sept 20, 2011 11:17:54 GMT
He doesn't have any news.
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Post by Halfaya on Sept 20, 2011 12:11:24 GMT
I do have news I will type it up later, I'm currently in General Studies -.-'
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Post by Mr.UNleash on Sept 20, 2011 12:41:40 GMT
Great, now I have to go to school all anxious to hear the news.
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Tal
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Post by Tal on Sept 20, 2011 13:11:58 GMT
The hell are General Studies?
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Post by Halfaya on Sept 20, 2011 13:57:15 GMT
Studies about great generals of the past
Self explanatory name Tal
Right the news!
Great news: CemTool appears to be able to open cem files & associate them with it
Bad news: The cem files are obfuscated so I can't actually determine what they say
Good news: Obfuscating merely encodes the code using some sort of formula... obviously work out the formula, I can translate it and then see what happens... however the formula could be super simple or super difficult to crack :/
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Shieldwolf
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Post by Shieldwolf on Sept 20, 2011 17:10:13 GMT
so, the manhunt is on! i'll try to contact the people per the list given above. EDIT: Out of all the Programmers listed there, only Charlie Cleveland has a chance of being contacted. i e-mailed him (here's the wordings) Good Day Sir! I am Randolph, a.k.a. Shieldwolf23, a scenario and campaign designer of Empire Earth, one of the many games you've programmed. I know that it has been almost 10 years since the game has been released, and this is a long shot, but sir, we have found out a tool that could edit CEM files, which are the files the models of the game are connected. Sadly, it appears that the files are coded, and as a programmer, and the only one we have managed to contact, may I respectfully ask you of the code for them? I know you might not remember it, but we are hoping you could help us in any way you can in decoding the CEM files. We wish you all the best in your career and family life. Sincerely, Randolph aka Shieldwolf of Empire Creations sotyscndesign.proboards.com/index.cgi?could someone try contacting him via facebook? www.facebook.com/charliecleveland
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Post by Mr.UNleash on Sept 20, 2011 23:07:14 GMT
Contacting through facebook after you sent that email might be too stalker like Nice email by the way. I'm pretty sure if he knows the code he'll give it to us. @xeno: I'll try to help you on that part, but I dunno how to decode it. Either way thats all good news to me, considering all those years and all those people that tried unsuccessfully. EDIT: I actually may be able to decode it. I tried opening the cem file and got a bunch of code, then I used a program to decode it, which made it slightly clearer, but still unreadable. The program wasn't meant for this btw ;D EDIT2: OH MY GOSHNESS!!!!! Charlie Cleveland lives (hopefully still does) in San Francisco!?!?!? I could walk over to his house and ask him ;D
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Post by Halfaya on Sept 21, 2011 13:59:41 GMT
I'm bloody hoping it has read it as obfuscated code and not just converted it to that lol
I'm gonna do more looksies this weekend.
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Shieldwolf
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Post by Shieldwolf on Sept 21, 2011 16:50:23 GMT
EDIT2: OH MY GOSHNESS!!!!! Charlie Cleveland lives (hopefully still does) in San Francisco!?!?!? I could walk over to his house and ask him ;D now, unleash, THAT! would be stalker like! thanks by the way. hope he replies.
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Post by Mr.UNleash on Sept 21, 2011 22:16:38 GMT
Yeah don't worry, I wasn't really gonna do that @xeno: I don't think it is converted. Ususally for encrypted cem files they only cover it up, just so people can't have a look at it. They also wouldn't wanna make it too difficult for themselves if they wanna look at it. EDIT: This is the closest thing I found to a converter in case it really is converted: textmechanic.com/Binary-Code-Translator.htmlCached
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Post by Mr.UNleash on Sept 29, 2011 2:29:49 GMT
So...anything new?
So far, I have rescearched and our only major hope would seem to be cemTool.
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Halfaya
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Post by Halfaya on Sept 29, 2011 21:10:39 GMT
So far no luck
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Post by _ZeuxisX_ on Oct 23, 2011 3:59:29 GMT
Is it possible that we can ask an expert programmer to program a cem editor?
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Post by Mr.UNleash on Oct 23, 2011 6:51:03 GMT
We have the editor, we just need the password.
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Post by Mr.UNleash on Oct 25, 2011 4:21:22 GMT
A quick modding question: I just recently extracted all of the AOC models/textures/ect, and when I looked at the textures files, they were already in tga format I tried decompressing them then opening it up on tgaTool, but it was all fuzzy. Any ideas on how to open them?
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Shieldwolf
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Post by Shieldwolf on Oct 25, 2011 4:34:36 GMT
i can't entirely remember, but i think you don't need to decompress them
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Post by Mr.UNleash on Oct 25, 2011 12:59:34 GMT
I tried that, and no image showed up at all :/
Btw anything new on those cem files/manhunt guys? I haven't had much time to rescearch, as this is the busiest school year I ever had.
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Shieldwolf
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Post by Shieldwolf on Oct 28, 2011 14:19:46 GMT
well, our respected programmer haven't replied to my email
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Post by Mr.UNleash on Oct 28, 2011 23:09:09 GMT
Iirc, he is the founder of a small game company here in downtown San Francisco. I think he has a separate email regarding his company that might be checked more often :/
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Shieldwolf
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Post by Shieldwolf on Oct 29, 2011 18:58:46 GMT
if that's the case, then we could contact him there. do you have that email ad?
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Post by Mr.UNleash on Oct 29, 2011 20:26:21 GMT
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Shieldwolf
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Post by Shieldwolf on Oct 30, 2011 4:29:58 GMT
yes, that's the same one
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Post by _ZeuxisX_ on Oct 30, 2011 20:00:42 GMT
Has anyone converted the cem to notepad format its very encoded!
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Post by Mr.UNleash on Oct 30, 2011 20:31:56 GMT
hehe...tried that too. I tried many other crazy things aswell, but none worked
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Post by _ZeuxisX_ on Nov 1, 2011 4:29:28 GMT
Have you converted a texture to the note pad, holy crud.
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Post by Mr.UNleash on Nov 1, 2011 13:10:12 GMT
Never tried that, but theres no need to, as we have tga tool to give us what we want
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