Password Generator Program

[rimsky82]

Because I felt like it.

I'm starting with the ones found here -> http://tasvideos.org/PasswordGenerators.html
River City Ransom found here -> http://ensomnya.net/projects/rcr_password/index.html

As per the source code on that page, the source can be checked out here

svn://gamehacking.org/gh-pw-gen

Not very pretty yet, but there will be more generators coming. Maybe somebody with some .NET experience will come along and help me prettify it. Abystus is good at that stuff.

Current Password Generators:

• NES: Castlevania II
• NES: River City Ransom
• NES: Metroid
• NES: Punch-Out!!
• SNES: Top Gear 2

[rimsky82]

Updated first post with the new generator for river city ransom.

[rimsky82]

Updated first post with the new generator for metroid.

[rimsky82]

I have to take a break from site dev once in a while to do something more fun. Can't lose that feeling, you know?

I've reverse-engineered the password encryption for Top Gear 2 (SNES). I can make passwords for it now, one of my favorite games of all time. After I reverse what I've done so passwords can be decrypted, I'll post the new build here.

[rimsky82]

Updated first post with the new generator for Top Gear 2.

[rimsky82]

Updated with new generator for Punch-Out!!

The stuff around the web on these passwords is, though effective, guesswork or simple collections of passwords. I reverse-engineered the asm for this generator.

[Helder]

Liking this thread and program, hope you keep adding to it.

[Duncan Idaho]

any chances of adding a Zelda Oracle of Ages/seasons generator to it?

[rimsky82]

Don't they use a battery?

[Duncan Idaho]

Don't they use a battery?

They do, but both games have a link system that works via passwords, there is a stand alone generator for both games, you insert the data and it generates a password you can use for both games to carry part of your progress and enable the extra dungeons and extra boss along Hero Mode.

[rimsky82]

They do, but both games have a link system that works via passwords, there is a stand alone generator for both games, you insert the data and it generates a password you can use for both games to carry part of your progress and enable the extra dungeons and extra boss along Hero Mode.

I will certainly check that out. There are no generators for them yet, or there is?

[gedowski]

Here's another site if you're interested

http://www.tailsarchive.net/re/

[rimsky82]

I will certainly check that out. There are no generators for them yet, or there is?

here's one already done
http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda07Password.php

[gedowski]

I think it's set up where you can only use it while on their site

[panda]

I just found about the River City Ransom passwords generator, and i was disappointed that it was a thing you could only use while on the website. By searching for a downloadable generator, i found that there was this one on gamehacking

It's nice that it contain password generators for multiple games. And it's only about 109ko, very great idea.

I found something that, i think, is a bug in the generator of River City Ransom. It's about the items in the inventory, they seem mixed.
If you want to verify, this is how i found the bug:
Choose D as the Password Key, put 63 in Punch, Kick, Weapon, Throwing, Agility, Defense, Strength, Will Power, Put 127 to Stamina and Max Power, select all bosses and all Skills, put 999 dollars and 99 cents, select the 6 first items in the inventory and add these 6 items in the inventory (in the exact order from 1 to 6): Stone Hands, Dragon Feet, Acro circus, Fatal Steps, Javelin Man, Grand Slam.
You should get the password:
v 3 k 1 x r f s n p f
z L F r n m 6 M t B' F
g 5 H O e V u t A g D
http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/97...Rgenerator.jpg

When using this password, you'll find in game that in your inventory, the items are not exactly what you selected. Not only they are not in the exact order, but a technique book has been replaced by an item "Scandal Rag".

I tried to put the exact same things in this online generator here http://ensomnya.net/projects/rcr_pas...crpassgen.html and i got a different password that is working correctly. The correct password is:
v 3 k 1 x r f s n p f
z L F r n n 5 M q 8 F
h 4 H O e V u t A u D

Notice how there's a couple of differences in the passwords, i don't know if there's also another bug or if it's only related to the inventory, i didn't verify yet.

Something i notice, it's not a bug, but i found the boss are not in the order we meet them in the game. So it can get confusing for one who don't know the name of every bosses. The exact order is the same as the online generator: Moose, Roxy, Benny, Clyde, Rocko, Blade, Turk, Mojo, Thor, Ivan, Otis, Tex, Randy, Andy, Cyndi.

And finally, i found there's also a password decoder, which could be a nice addition to the River City Ransom Password Generator. It's used to enter an already existing password, and it gives you the details of the password so you know what to expect before using the password in game. http://ensomnya.net/projects/rcr_password/index.html I had something similar to this in mind: http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/45...RCRdecoder.jpg