{"id":14676,"date":"2025-10-11T13:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14676"},"modified":"2025-07-22T14:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:01:49","slug":"hacking-securom-in-an-old-jurassic-park-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14676","title":{"rendered":"Hacking SecuROM in an old Jurassic Park game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@nathanbaggs\">Nathan Baggs<\/a> wanted to play a retro version of Jurassic Park, but found it was busted due to DRM. He then proceeds to walk through how to hack it with a debugger and binary\/disassembly tools such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUx2eUNhR1VDTmxQY0JGQkhkTDFmRFpnN3ZVQXxBQ3Jtc0ttN1VhdHhaRmVPUUwxMnVOMlVVQ3d1YW5DVUNzMExDM19aelpEQkRRVzd4OWNfSXphSTE3X0NFOGlsdHpYRGNpMC1kUWk3aTlMN0hyV2NWVkhwcFFrT3RqTENXTUw1SWxJZVJSZ2Utd3NkWW9ZVlhEbw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FNationalSecurityAgency%2Fghidra&amp;v=vjkqI7dBDVg\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUx2eUNhR1VDTmxQY0JGQkhkTDFmRFpnN3ZVQXxBQ3Jtc0ttN1VhdHhaRmVPUUwxMnVOMlVVQ3d1YW5DVUNzMExDM19aelpEQkRRVzd4OWNfSXphSTE3X0NFOGlsdHpYRGNpMC1kUWk3aTlMN0hyV2NWVkhwcFFrT3RqTENXTUw1SWxJZVJSZ2Utd3NkWW9ZVlhEbw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FNationalSecurityAgency%2Fghidra&amp;v=vjkqI7dBDVg\">Ghidra<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDhBZFdiaXRMV2lTcWM5Mld5ZE5Ud3dsZ0ltd3xBQ3Jtc0tsZHNFazBsTVRKc0hkQVNTR1dNdlJoZF82MGJzTEx3TjhUbVYzUjMzMWZ6ekdLdkNsRkVTZ1VKcE1BakxSMmswVFZZZmFCTGdoTjR4TjNaenBWamxNS1J5eTNEZ3Fqc3hlbXJDcUxHSktzU0ltZ3FTOA&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fx64dbg%2Fx64dbg&amp;v=vjkqI7dBDVg\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDhBZFdiaXRMV2lTcWM5Mld5ZE5Ud3dsZ0ltd3xBQ3Jtc0tsZHNFazBsTVRKc0hkQVNTR1dNdlJoZF82MGJzTEx3TjhUbVYzUjMzMWZ6ekdLdkNsRkVTZ1VKcE1BakxSMmswVFZZZmFCTGdoTjR4TjNaenBWamxNS1J5eTNEZ3Fqc3hlbXJDcUxHSktzU0ltZ3FTOA&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fx64dbg%2Fx64dbg&amp;v=vjkqI7dBDVg\">x64dbg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbk9TWGxPZThmOTdhekRFVE1ENnNtd0J4YUhQd3xBQ3Jtc0tsbi1FTUZQRS10ZGxxMVJKQVVIb1pQdkpEQ09ZN0M5dXphaTI5T2dBTDRiWjU1NXJ6ZVNTQm8yMkQzNVZzUldHZ3F5eF9keGxjdXNIYVRvX1R5MllGS3gybER2OC1VOFByanhsRVNRX2kwXzdieHBlbw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fntcore.com%2Fexplorer-suite%2F&amp;v=vjkqI7dBDVg\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbk9TWGxPZThmOTdhekRFVE1ENnNtd0J4YUhQd3xBQ3Jtc0tsbi1FTUZQRS10ZGxxMVJKQVVIb1pQdkpEQ09ZN0M5dXphaTI5T2dBTDRiWjU1NXJ6ZVNTQm8yMkQzNVZzUldHZ3F5eF9keGxjdXNIYVRvX1R5MllGS3gybER2OC1VOFByanhsRVNRX2kwXzdieHBlbw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fntcore.com%2Fexplorer-suite%2F&amp;v=vjkqI7dBDVg\">CFF Explorer<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbV9jZEE0b2tvRlo2WDdRaVhsdi12MUpPMHBxUXxBQ3Jtc0trQVNMZlZhR052NUNWREVtUWdNN2tqanZFZzd1SG41dHl1bk02N0dBbGVUcGpnbUJHckxSYTVPV3ZKOTRVRFRIMFZpLXBwVzlTWmZxTWprVk9Oc1NBR3NPN2pDbUZZN0kzak90ZTVGeHRFOS1xVHVQMA&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fhasherezade%2Fpe-bear&amp;v=vjkqI7dBDVg\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbV9jZEE0b2tvRlo2WDdRaVhsdi12MUpPMHBxUXxBQ3Jtc0trQVNMZlZhR052NUNWREVtUWdNN2tqanZFZzd1SG41dHl1bk02N0dBbGVUcGpnbUJHckxSYTVPV3ZKOTRVRFRIMFZpLXBwVzlTWmZxTWprVk9Oc1NBR3NPN2pDbUZZN0kzak90ZTVGeHRFOS1xVHVQMA&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fhasherezade%2Fpe-bear&amp;v=vjkqI7dBDVg\">PE Bear<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a great video on how people go about hacking old programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vjkqI7dBDVg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Baggs wanted to play a retro version of Jurassic Park, but found it was busted due to DRM. He then proceeds to walk through how to hack it with a debugger and binary\/disassembly tools such as Ghidra, x64dbg, CFF Explorer, and PE Bear. It&#8217;s a great video on how people go about hacking old programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,33,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-retro-computing","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3OI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14679,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14676\/revisions\/14679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}