{"id":5610,"date":"2018-09-19T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2018-09-19T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T03:08:00","slug":"more-failures-with-galaga-destination-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/5610","title":{"rendered":"More Failures with Galaga: Destination Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <a href=\"\/stack\/archives\/5593\"><em>Ultimate Spider-Man<\/em> showed a very similar reluctance to run under Windows 10<\/a> as <a href=\"\/stack\/archives\/5572\"><em>Galaga: Destination Earth<\/em><\/a>, it seemed plausible that the cause might be the same: DRM. Specifically, <em>USM<\/em> uses SafeDisc, which Windows 10 considers to be a security violation. I still don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s the case or not. I haven&#8217;t found a nocd crack for <em>Galaga<\/em> online. I did find some general instructions for circumventing SafeDisc on Windows 10 by downloading and signing a driver in administrator mode, but it didn&#8217;t seem to help. Maybe <em>Galaga<\/em> instead uses SecuROM, another DRM system that Windows 10 doesn&#8217;t like, with a bigger reputation as a security risk, widely accused of flat-out being a rootkit. Or maybe the problem was never really DRM at all.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it seems like my best bet is still to set up a Windows 98 machine, which is something I kind of want to do anyway for the sake of other games. But in the course of searching for nocd cracks, I discovered another option: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/psx_galagade\">archive.org has the Playstation version of <em>Galaga: Destination Earth<\/em> available to play online<\/a>. And I did play that for long enough to get through the first level, but I won&#8217;t be continuing there. The sound is unbearably choppy in my browser, just constantly cutting in and out, and the resolution is significantly below what I&#8217;m willing to accept for this game. That is, it&#8217;s probably 256&#215;224, designed for a standard definition television with a certain amount of blur. I&#8217;m not really very demanding about resolution. 800&#215;600 is plenty for me in a game designed around 3D graphics, like this one. I might even get used to 256&#215;224. But the sound is a real deal-breaker.<\/p>\n<p>At least I did legitimately play it for a little while, though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Ultimate Spider-Man showed a very similar reluctance to run under Windows 10 as Galaga: Destination Earth, it seemed plausible that the cause might be the same: DRM. Specifically, USM uses SafeDisc, which Windows 10 considers to be a security violation. I still don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s the case or not. I haven&#8217;t found a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[602,68,604],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-galaga-destination-earth","tag-problems-running-games","tag-ultimate-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}