DOS / 2026 / Accolade
The Games: Summer Challenge & Winter Challenge
Anyone who spent a fair amount of time gaming on a PC back in the 1990s will undoubtedly remember these two titles. Summer Games and Winter Games are classic hot-seat games, meaning games that you play together with friends on a single PC. You compete against each other in a variety of Olympic disciplines or take on computer-controlled opponents. Only the later release of Ski Jump managed to deliver a similar, or perhaps even greater, level of addictiveness. At first glance, the copy protection looks like a typical codewheel challenge. But beware: if the game is cracked incorrectly, your bobsled will automatically crash into a wall at the end of a run, or you'll suddenly fall off your horse for no apparent reason. mrWint uncovered the nasty tricks hidden in this protection scheme and documented them extensively. He also released a fully functional patch for the game. Nevertheless, we've developed our own separate fix, which isn't necessarily better or worse. Instead of eliminating the protection routines, we simply feed the game the original codewheel values it expects. The end result is that both our solution and mrWint's provide a fully functional version of the game, so you're essentially spoiled for choice.
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