Chuck Yeager air combat.... (the long story) So my roomate bought the game. I hate flight simulators, but I thought I could get some enjoyment out of cracking the thing. I whip out my trusty turbo debugger and after hacking at my config.sys for a while I have the thing running the way I want to. Since I had the book with the correct answers it took only about 15 minutes to track down the code, and make the patch. Cool, now all I needced was to write down the byte change, search the file on disk and make the patch.... easy enough.... NOT!! EA GOT SMART... (well .....) Their file was compressed. Not using pklite, lhaexe or whatever. I was stumped. I could not believe that EA would go out and write their own compression dealo. Thats just not them. I mean those things are REAL!! hard to write, and they concentrate more on their games and stuff. Here major thanx go to Michael Yakubovich he figured out that EA was using OPTLINK for compression. Dont ask, I have no clue what OPTLINK is. Anyway to uncompress the file you can use norton utils 6.0x. rename a norton utils file e.g. NCD.EXE to NCD.OLD. COPY YEAGER.EXE NCD.EXE run NUCONFIG.EXE and sellect the expand files option. expand the (yeager) NCD.EXE rename your NCD.OLD back to NCD.EXE exit. You are now ready to make the patch to the executable. One BYTE crack comming up...... scan for 5B 5B 0B C0 74 1D ^ |------------ EB That does it...... -------------------------------------------------- As for Michael Yakubovich's crack, it did not work for my version, although his crack allowed me to finalize mine. Keep up the good work people, Long live the GRAVIS ULTRASOUND!! MikeE