Ultima VI Copy Protection Re-Imagined!

Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 04:54 AM

A copy protection screen asking you to locate your Ultima VI files.

A copy protection screen asking you to locate your Ultima VI files.

Everyone's favorite part of Ultima VI is back and better than ever! I got this fully-working. My Ultima VI Fan Recreation Project Age Of Singularity will be a free game that includes no assets from the real Ultima VI, but it will need those files to function just like how NuVIe and Ultima VI work. So when you start the game up, it will tell you where to place your files. Buy the game on gog.com for like 6 dollars since it's awesome.

Similarly, to have the classic voices from the FM Towns version of Ultima VI, you'll need to provide your own legit folder of the voice files. The FM Towns version is not available on gog.com unfortunately, but there are other places you can obtain a legal copy like ebay - though it is insanely expensive.

Once you have your own legal copy of the FM Towns version, you can use this tool to extract the audio files for use in Age of Singularity. Eventually it would be nice to redo all the voice lines with voice actors from fiverr.com or something, or to make my own with elevenlabs, but both endeavors are just ideas at the moment.

ChatGPT is great for learning how to code! (I'll eventually change it to use StreamingAssets instead of the Resources folder to prevent Windows access issues, but that will be pretty easy, too).

This should go a long way toward EA not getting mad about my Age Of Singularity Ultima VI fan recreation project since it could technically gain them new sales and can't hurt them. If Age Of Singularity is awesome, they benefit!

I would love it if new people bought Ultima VI, like from gog.com, just to play Age Of Singularity!

Here's the original fb UDIC post.

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