================================================================================================= Program Name: Caesar 3 (GAME) Version: 1.0.1.0 Producer: Http://www.sierra.com Cracker: Zaks (zakssim@geocities.com) Tools: W32Dasm 8.9, Hacker's View 6.00 Difficulty: Easy Tutorial No.: 1 ================================================================================================= 1) Install Caesar 3 on your pc. I use the maximum install. Get the patch for it from Sierra. Patch Caesar 3 to ver. 1.0.1.0. 2) Run c3.exe without cd. "Missing CD Please replace your c3 ........". Remember or write down this message. Run W32Dasm and disassemble c3.exe. In string data references look for the message. There is no such message. Look for "Missing CD". No such message also. Shit. 3) What are we supposed to do now? I have tried (with Softice) to break before the message and this also was not succesfull. Then I searched the net and downloaded shadowRUNNER's Caesar3 crack. I run it and then compared the files (original c3.exe and cracked c3.exe) with a program called Binary file compare (bfc.exe). When I saw the difference is in 527908 everything come in place. 4) Now try to run the game with the cd in it. The game runs just fine but what is interesting to us is that after the message "loading sounds" - there come the message Missing CD when we tried to run the game without CD. When running the game with CD after the message "loading sounds" the game starts with intro or in other words the game runs file called intro.smk (easy to see this in C3 instalation). 5) Back in W32Dasm. Lets try to find intro.smk in String data references. We find "smk\intro.smk". Hmm lets go there. The first location is at 4d221F. It does not look like a test and then jmp. Lets try again (double click again on smk\intro.smk). So we are at 5278f9. This look better. We have a CALL then TEST and then JNE - exactly a test routine. So we now know we are at the right place. * Possible StringData Ref from Data Obj ->"smk\intro.smk" :005278F9 687CE25500 push 0055E27C :005278FE E89C9DEDFF call 0040169F ; the check must be made here :00527903 83C408 add esp, 00000008 :00527906 85C0 test eax, eax ; here it tests the returned value :00527908 754F jne 00527959 ; jump here if the Cd is in cd-drive ; Good Boy :0052790A 6A10 push 00000010 :0052790C 6A05 push 00000005 :0052790E E8B7A4EDFF call 00401DCA :00527913 83C408 add esp, 00000008 :00527916 6A11 push 00000011 :00527918 6A05 push 00000005 :0052791A E8F3B6EDFF call 00403012 :0052791F 83C408 add esp, 00000008 :00527922 6A01 push 00000001 :00527924 A190D17300 mov eax, dword ptr [0073D190] :00527929 50 push eax :0052792A 8B0D30DB7300 mov ecx, dword ptr [0073DB30] :00527930 51 push ecx :00527931 8B15EC995B00 mov edx, dword ptr [005B99EC] :00527937 52 push edx 6) So we see 527908 - JNE. We know what to do - see the offset for 527908. It is 126d08. Now copy c3.exe to c3.backup Run Hiew600. Open c3.exe. F3 - edit change 75 (Jne) to 74 (Je). F4 - decode. F5 - goto 126d08. F9 - save the file. ESC - exit. 7) Run the game without CD. It works. Try to run it with C3 CD in your cd-drive. Missing CD. Exactly as we expected. So we can be happy and play the game with no cd or we can try to change things to work with cd and no-cd. 8) Run Hiew600. Open c3.exe. F3 - edit change 74 (Je) with EB (Jmps). F4 - decode. F5 - goto 126d08. Now the game will directly jumps to intro.smk (and the working game) no matter if the cd is present or not. That's it. ================================================================================================= 08.13.2000 Written by Zaks Credits to shadowRUNNER for showing me the way.

Caesar 3 FAQs Last Update: 07 January 1999 Version: 0.00.003 E-Mail of Author: cerion@flashmail.com I. Introduction This file contains information on a game named "Caesar III" (name without double quotation marks). This game has been designed to work on a PC, that is, a personal computer. General information on what a PC is cannot be given during this file, but your local PC vendor may help. Alternatively you can contact the author of this file for more detailed information. The text contained herein has been written, designed and formatted, checked and revised, changed, saved and published out of free will. No money has been received for the work put towards its creation up to its present state. Because of this I hereby notify everyone, that this file and its contents in their complete form shall not be bound to any royalty or "distribution fee" which may arise to be earned by distributing this file. Distribute it out of free will, but do not take money for it. More information on distribution of this file may be obtained from appendix A (legality statement). To understand what is contained within this file you will need basics in computer using, e.g. how to start a file, how to launch Windows Explorer, what is MBytes, MHz etc. If you are not familiar with files called FAQs (like this one), please read appendix B (about FAQs). 1. What type of game is Caesar III? At its core it's an action simulation. It simulates a career of a Roman citizen that takes up the so called "cursum honorum" which is the "curse of honors". Romans had to undergo several types of offices before they were admitted to governing and legislative offices. For example they were tax collectors, police staff and other important things required for a town or civilization in general to work. More about the history of Caesar later on. This cursus honorum has already brought you to a point where you govern a city, which may be something nearby consul status. If you know Sim City, Caesar III will be very familiar. But! There are big differences. First of all, you have to construct a city out of nothing. There is a lot of woods, water and perhaps a street through the lands. But that's it. You will have to cultivate land to feed your people by building farms. Further on you will need to construct workshops to equip your armies and fight intruders. There's a whole lot of life in ancient Rome, and your city is a thrilling pool of activity. A lot to attend and a big amount of details you may overlook, but this file should put you on the right way to it. Basically after building up your basic city, still every single building added may cause little catastrophes. It is not easy being one of the mighty ones, but it's great fun watching for people unfold, develop, grow and finally have metropolis making Rome itself turn pale. Occasionally I will insert little glimpses of history into this FAQ, but don't worry, I will keep them short. If you would like to know more about Roman history, feel free to contact me. Generally however there should be plenty of books around to inform you. 2. A bit of the history of Caesar (the person) About 2000 years ago ancient Rome, that is the Roman Empire had its biggest spreading in history. Also, about 2000 years ago, emperors ruled it. As we all know from history Rome first was ruled by kings, then, after Caesar claimed dictatorship emperorship was introduced (after Caesar's death - should you never have seen any Asterix movies or read comics - they stabbed him to death). Emperorship under Octavian who was also called Augustus (the month August is named after this emperor, the first in Rome's history namely) was something completely new for the Romans. Now Caesar's history starts when Caesar claims dictatorship after he has had a quite interesting and adventorous career, actually marching straight through Gaule, that is the ancient France and bringing it under the flag of the Roman Empire (which was some type of spear with banners and stuff around it and the writing S.P.Q.R.; which denotes senatus populusque Romanus - translated means "property of the Roman senate and people"). But Caesar also entered Great Britain and "convinced" Britains to be part of the Roman Empire from then on. It was also him who added a lot of culture to Rome's outlook. "panem et circenses" may be familiar to some of you, which means bread and games - and that's exactly what he did: he spent money to bring food to the (starving) people to get their favor and then he entertained them with games full of blood and brutality. Actually you may have heard of the Coloseum in Rome, a small picture of it is also shown during the game at the map of the Empire where ancient Rome would be. This theatre, which consisted of a doubled ancient Greek theatre (half circles usually) featured a lot of other games aside of plays but also covered some blood thirsty gladiator battles (the fighting gladiators greeted Caesar with "ave Caesar, morituri te salutant" which is "greetings, those who are going to die salute you"). They had also quite funny games. For instance they let people dressed up in feathers run and jump from the highest precipice to honor the gods. And then again their were also for Artemis, the goddess of hunting: A wood was constructed in the middle of the Coloseum. Into this wood small animals were brought. Quite actually all spectators were then admissed to search and hunt for the small animals. Entertainment was big fun in those times. 3. A bit on the history of Caesar (the game) Caesar, in the original way was designed to work on the PC. There were and are several similar programs around. The oldest predecessor I still remember was Centurio on the C64. The three games of Caesar each offer similar game play. Even though one immediately sees the huge amounts of changes applied to all three games, the changes from Caesar II to III were not that great than they were from the original Caesar to Caesar II. Yet, and that may be the most fascinating thing, Caesar III offers even more details than Caesar II which already incorporates a lot of what is known about the antique Roman civilization. Caesar III in it's general has far more advanced graphics, nice tunes and new sounds, of course also old elements but a much richer game engine, that features a lot more details than the other versions. Basically, if you do not have any of the three games I would recommend Caesar III, because it incorporates the best of all games and adds some new things, too. If you already have Caesar or Caesar II you should consider trying whether you are still fascinated by similar game play, but yet still the game Caesar III itself has already a place among those nice games arrayed on the heaven of game stars. 4. Installation Although explained with a lot of details, the installation of Caesar III may yield some problems. However I will not repeat endless "how to clean up Windows 95" articles here, instead, please contact me, if you need assistance on installing the game. 5. Setting up the preferences Some things like performance or sound volume should be adjusted before you start playing. However, if you have a problem like the game running very slowly, read this paragraphs. a. Outside Before actually running the game itself, please make sure you have a look at the following file (i.e. open them with Notepad or similar). README.TXT This file contains extremely useful information considering you are not completely familiar with the instruction manual. So called 'readme' files are usually addenda to manual errata, that is, they contain information or corrections on mistakes that have been placed into the printed manual. Sometimes readme.txt files also contain information which could be added to the help files, because different people worked on that file. A lot of what is stated in the README.TXT paragraph is very important and should be known by all players. I will not repeat it afterwards. Generally reading the following paragraph will render you with a thorough basis of nice tips and "what-do-I-do-now" information. It should be located in the directory whereto you installed Caesar III. I will list the most important things here, so you will not have to switch files a lot. Also I will include some hints and information from myself. As for originality as stated in the FAQ to FAQ writing (at http://www.gamefaqs.com) the following information of the following paragraphs is mainly taken from the README.TXT of Caesar III. Generally I have however corrected some mistakes that were stated and added new information. I have placed only the most important information and what conclusions may arise from reading it here. 1. If you have questions that run beyond this FAQ, please visit http://www.caesar3.com which offers a lot of hints, tips and a message board for you to exchange information about the game. Should you not be able to find a solution there, try to visit http://www.sierra.com. There.. - click on the "interact" button at the top of the page - choose "message boards" - click "strategy and simulations" under "technical and customer support boards - read the messages that will be displayed Sometimes you may find a similar problem which has already been looked at by technical staff or programmers from the people who developed this game. 2. Minimum requirements for playing are.. - 100% IBM compatible PC - 90 MHz processor - Quad-Speed (4x) CD-ROM drive (600 KBytes/sec transfer rate) - 16 MBytes RAM - Video Card capable of 16 Bit graphics at a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels - Hard Drive space of at least 150 MBytes - Hard Drive space of at least 100 MBytes for Virtual Memory - Windows 95/98 installed If you need more detailed information on what technical terms like 'virtual memory' are, please look them up in your Windows Help. Recommended components for playing are.. - 133 MHz processor - 32 MBytes RAM - Full Installation Include with these the components from above. Of course having a 450 MHz Pentium II with 512 MBytes of RAM will work - even better, that is. 3. The following information may be useful if you have problems inside the game. You will have to come back outside (i.e. quit) to apply any of these hints. If you get a warning about low memory or "low virtual memory" please consult your Windows Help on how to increase virtual memory. Be sure that it is set to at least 100 MBytes AND that your harddrive also yields 100 MBytes of free space. If you have extremely slow game play, try increasing virtual memory and defragmenting your harddrive. Also, if you seem to have problems with your mouse, try installing new drivers from your mouse hardware vendor. Many of these offer them for free download from their homepage e.g. http://www.logitech.com for Logitech mice. Note: Even new computers may be shipped with outdated drivers. Some TSRs (programs located in the system tray, usually left of your system clock at the right corner of the Windows Desktop featured as little icons, smaller than the others on the Desktop) e.g. screen savers as well as compression programs e.g. Stacker, DriveSpace or crash protection programs e.g. Norton CrashGuard may interfere with the game. Unload these programs and try again. Do so by pressing [CTRL], [ALT], [DEL]. A window will popup. Select an application, hit ENTER and another window will pop up. Click "End Task" (or press ENTER) to unload the previously highlighted application. Trying to unload everything except "Systray", "Explorer" and "Caesar 3" may crash your computer, since there are a lot of programs that are needed for some computers to function correctly e.g. playing from a diskless workstation. Occasionally you may refresh your monitor by pressing [ALT], TAB to switch between your Desktop and Caesar III. 4. Now, if you have not yet read the manual, do so. A lot of information that follows now refers to things stated in the manual and you will not be able to follow if you do not know some basics of the game. Some things here are well in-game situations, but they are good to be known or heard of before you start a game, so you don't come back here frustrated because something does not work how you expect it to do. - there is not a context help to any single element in the game featured with a context help button - SPACEBAR does not pause time, the P button does (look up appendix D (rumors) for more information!) - use SPACEBAR to toggle between normal view and overlay view or overlay view and another overlay view (view describes and open 'window') - hotkeys are as follows P .. pause game [ .. reduce game speed ] .. increase game speed cursor keys .. scrol main map SPACEBAR .. view main map while in overlay view SPACEBAR .. return last overlay while in normal view L .. cycle through legions F .. fire overlay W .. water overlay D .. damage overlay C .. crime overlay T .. problems overlay advisors 1 .. labor 2 .. legion 3 .. emperor 4 .. ratings 5 .. trade 6 .. population 7 .. health 8 .. education 9 .. entertainment 0 .. religion = .. finance - .. chief hitting a key twice takes you back to normal view - you can set bookmarks to certain map locations using [CTRL], F1 for position #1 through to [CTRL], F4 for position #4; recall these bookmarks using F1 through to F4 - enter window screen mode (background = Desktop) using F6 - you may change the currect resolution using.. F7 .. 640 by 480 pixels F8 .. 800 by 600 pixels F9 .. 1024 by 768 pixels - on career game maps: they are not available in the construction kit, but played once in career game mode makes them available to you - save there and load them - sheep and zebras can only be frightened away by building something nearby - contrary to the manual, the lack of a governor's residence does not limit the potential prosperity for a city - when you surround a set of housing with a wall, the housing will disappear after several seconds; use gatehouses to provide necessary access to the rest of the city map when fortifying residential areas - there are wolves in the northern reaches of the Empire, better not try biting them (i.e. they will attack Roman people) - cart pushers usually wait for you to build a new destination if the old one has vanished - you may build an unlimited number of reservoirs linked together by one or more aqueducts 5. The README.TXT features some hints and tips for those who actually read it. These are very useful for all who like to be on the safe side in the beginning. - plan your first residential area well; have access to farmland, raw materials and water at a minimum - keep the road network simple * low number of intersections * straight roads - build no more than two residential areas initially - housing may expand into gardens, but not into statues - get a trade route started quickly (ensures good growth rates and keeps your purse filled) - lower your taxes in the beginning, slowly raise them later in the game - do not build too many gardens or plazas - build small low rent communities near areas where you are having labor problems - leave open spots in residential areas for expansions or additions like baths, libraries etc. - cover wages with taxes no higher than 10%, make it 8% ideally, never go below 5% - build farms at the edge of farmland - only one tile of housing or baths need access to water - specialize in commodities - place docks near where trade ships enter the map; build one dock for each seaborne trade route you open - minimize cart pusher travel time by building granaries near farms and markets near granaries (i.e. farms - granaries - markets) put workshops near their raw material suppliers, best would be adjacent, warehouses near workshops, markets near warehouses (i.e. ideal chain: farms - granaries - markets - warehouses - workshops - raw material suppliers) - Neptune's wrath can only affect you, if you are near near the sea - evolution increases with desirability rates; this is graphical only, their function does not change - best defense offers a wall of towers, that is no simple wall, just towers, leaving open some gates - instead of relying on just your towers also have some army units handy; recommended are at least one cavalry, two legions and two or three javelin auxiliaries - a strategy common from Command & Conquer: meet your enemy with armies in range of your towers and have long range behind hand to hand units - build a legion every two years, from year 10 upwards get military even more - save often, always a thing missed during real life, saving is what keeps you from redesigning your city many times over - ignore messages about food surplus, if you have the labor for it - something for those rioting people are decreased taxes - never let unemployment exceed 20%; quick jobs are made with extra hospitals 6. If you need to contact Sierra via surface mail or want to call them, use the following information: United States Sierra On-Line Returns 4100 West 190th Street Torrance, CA 90504 Sierra On-Line Fulfillment 4100 West 190th Street Torrance, CA 90504 U.S.A. Sales Phone: (800) 757-7707 International Sales: (425) 746-5771 Hours: Monday-Saturday 7AM to 11 PM CST, Sundays 8AM to 9PM CST FAX: (402) 393-3224 Sierra Direct 7100 W. Center Rd STE 301 Omaha, NE 68106 United Kingdom Cendant Software International Limited Main: (0118) 920-9111 Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Fax: (0118) 987-5603 Disk/CD replacements in the U.K. are 6.00 pounds, or 7.00 pounds outside the UK. Add "ATTN.: Returns." 2 Beacontree Plaza, Gillette Way, Reading, Berkshire RG2 0BS United Kingdom France Cendant Software International Limited Phone: (01) 46-01-46-50 Lundi au Vendredi de 9h - 19h Fax: (01) 46-30-00-65 Parc Tertiaire de Meudon Immeuble "Le Newton" 25 rue Jeanne Braconnier 92366 Meudon La Fort Cedex France Germany Cendant Software International Limited Tel: (0) 6103-99-40-40 Montag bis Freitag von 9h - 19Uhr Fax: (0) 6103-99-40-35 Robert-Bosh-Str. 32 D-63303 Dreieich Germany CompuServe United Kingdom:GO UKSIERRA CompuServe France: GO FRSIERRA CompuServe Germany: GO DESIERRA Internet USA: http://www.sierra.com Internet United Kingdom: http://www.sierra-online.co.uk Internet France: http://www.sierra.fr Internet Germany: http://www.sierra.de 7. If you are not satisfied with the game, you can return it within thirty days within purchase. Simply send it back via mail; even retail bought software. But tell them what was wrong - valid in North America only. To replace your disk(s) send only disk #1 or CD and a copy of the receipt. 90 days after purchase add $10.00 for handling. For documentation replacement include $5.00 0for handling and a photocopy of disk #1. No credit cards. 8. Finally, if you would like to contact Sierra technical support, please read the appropriate section the README.TXT. There are specific numbers for different countries to call, and different addresses to write to. Since some of these services are not free of costs, they are not included here. This concludes information derived from README.TXT. FILES IN THE INSTALLATION DIRECTORY There are always some files that are human readable, or pleasantly to the point where you still can manage to edit something. CAESAR3.INI One very obvious line: CDDrive= ( means any letter or something else) Now changing this can assist you with game play, if it's very slow, try copying the CD to your harddisk and playing it from there. Use CDDrive=. in order for the game to recognize your harddisk as CDDrive (and thus being able to run the whole game from there - which is much faster) SIERRA.INF Some information placed by Sierra. There are some things which you may change if you messed up. You can also add your own bookmarks here, which may be shown somewhere in the game. (we will talk about that later) Also your basic configuration is stored here aside with product code and version and some information which demos the game will show to you. This is interesting, since you may actually skip the demos if you just blank the lines after the equation marks. Unless you like them or have enough time to lose, do this - speeds up loading the game. C3_MODEL.INF This file contains information on every structure and the taxes in connection with them. There is some information in that file on model data (that is the data contained therein). Basically this a trial-and-error thing. The values of what a structures costs etc. are balanced out, so game play is good. If you change this, you may have a nice cheat, like paying only little for a palace or something. This is however not recommended. Slight adjustments are okay, but do not exaggerate it. Unless you are very familiar with the game, do not change this. It offers a lot of possibilities though. STATUS.TXT Created as a log file for loading the game parts. Whenever you start the game logs what happens during loading the game's parts. If you have any errors at hand, have a look at what could not be loaded or was not enabled, is not sufficient (like memory) or could not be found. Except for the README.TXT and the STATUS.TXT it is a bad idea to delete any of the files contained in the Caesar III directory. Technically you may delete and TXT and MAP files for the game to work. But pre-designed maps probably needed by the game may fail to load if you do so. Still you could play using editor designed maps. This could be needed for small laptop harddisks. Usually you do not get more than you lose by deleting every single file you do not need. You may also delete the SMK files (video files) and various WAV files (audio files). Handle with care - the game may crash or not even start doing so. Again technically you can reduce the amount of space needed to about two thirds, but this reduces the actual game to its engine functions. Same thing if you remove the beautiful red metal outlets, the wooden inlays and stuff like that from a Ferrari and go driving around with the engine in front of you. It's possible but it's not a nice feeling with all the wind coming at you at 100 mph. And then, a car door adds a lot of comfort, doesn't it? b. Inside Quite exactly, editing any preferences inside is very easy because there are not many that refer to the games actual outlook. First of all, you have to start a game and on the main screen to actually get to editing any preferences (also have a look at the chapter later on, where we will talk about how to build a city in a few steps). On the main screen there will be a menu on the top where there is something called "options" - a dropdown menuitem listing where you can select from Display, Sound and Speed Settings. DISPLAY SETTINGS This lets you adjust how you actually get to look at your city. Resolution and windowed mode may be changed. These are the same things you can do with the F6 through F9 keys. SOUND SETTINGS These are very obvious. You can adjust the volume and whether sounds are played at all. Generally the basic settings (everything ON) is okay. You will have some performance gain by turning of music and sound effects. SPEED SETTINGS Now this is an interesting menuitem, because you may adjust game speed, which may help you if things are overwhelmingly fast - and that 450 MHz Pentium II running at your service may overdo it :). Scroll Speed - this lets you adjust the speed of how fast the main window will scroll around the city map Aside from these settings you may change the Warnings and the Mouse Help. Both are changed via the Help dropdown menu. Warnings - if ON shows warning e.g. nearby enemies etc. Mouse Help - if ON will show tool tip lik