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Diagnosed and fixed the crash that killed HAVOC_NOCD.EXE ~1s after launch
(dgVoodoo window appears black, then the process exits). It was not a clean
exit: an ACCESS_VIOLATION (null-pointer read at VA 0x444E6A) during init.
Root cause is a copy-protection check in the WORLDS\ data-file loader
(0x42a480). It opens each file (GRAFIX/LAND/MAP/STUF) from both a local
"WORLDS\<name>" path and a CD-drive path (HAVOC.INI [SETUP] DRIVE=D:\), and
returns a valid stream only when the local open fails and the CD-drive open
succeeds. With files present locally and no D: drive it returned NULL, and the
GRAFIX loader (0x444db0) dereferenced that NULL without checking.
Fix: 14-byte patch at FO 0x29a2b rewrites the return decision to hand back the
successfully-opened local object. The game now boots to the title screen
("HAVOC(tm) by Reality Bytes"), responsive, main loop running.
- docs/PATCHES.md: full patch table (28 patches) + crash write-up
- tools/: RE + patching scripts (r2pipe disasm, minidump parser, ctypes
debugger, PE/IAT/import analysis)
- run_probe.bat / run_and_log.bat: reliable native launch for repro
- .gitignore: exclude CD images, Ghidra install/project, dgVoodoo, *.ini
Diagnosed via WER minidumps (%LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps) parsed in pure Python
(no cdb/windbg available).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TN4Ytn3gdWRonNmHpisWQv
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820 B
Python
20 lines
820 B
Python
import struct, sys, io
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sys.stdout = io.TextIOWrapper(sys.stdout.buffer, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace')
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data = open('HAVOC_NOCD.EXE','rb').read()
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FO2VA = lambda fo: fo + 0x400C00
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# Search for "corrupted" and "unavailable" strings
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for needle in [b'corrupt', b'unavail', b'CORRUPT', b'UNAVAIL', b'not found', b'NOT FOUND',
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b'cannot', b'CANNOT', b'missing', b'MISSING', b'invalid', b'INVALID']:
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idx = 0
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while True:
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pos = data.find(needle, idx)
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if pos == -1: break
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# Print surrounding context
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start = max(0, pos - 4)
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end = min(len(data), pos + 60)
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snippet = data[start:end]
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printable = ''.join(chr(b) if 32 <= b < 127 else '.' for b in snippet)
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print("FO 0x%05x VA 0x%08x: %s" % (pos, FO2VA(pos), printable))
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idx = pos + 1
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