I am playing Arena right now. I just got out of the dungeon, and was surprised just before I was about to exit, I had to do a password protection to get out. Luckily for me I found my original Arena book and was able to get out with no problem. I am wundering if Daggerfall has the same thing. I can't find my Daggerfall book at all, I think it's lost. I found my strat guide for Daggerfall, but now I lost that too, so I think anything I had for Daggerfall is gone now.

So does Daggerfall have the same password protection like Arena or something Different? Also for people who don't have the book, how did you guys get out of the Dungeaon in Arena?

*edit* Ok I see my answer for how people get past the Arean part. I saw on a web site that has the book online. But does Daggerfall have the same password protection?

In Daggerfall, I remember there one Castle/Dungeon of the Main Quest that have a password, but ya find that out when ya go and get to Point B the Long Way within the Castle/Dungeon. When ya get to point B, which is an old Lady ya will find out on ya own, ya will get a password that just lead to a door that is very close to the the exit of that particular Castle/Dungeon and ya can use that door to get to Point B the short way again, if ya remember the password.

Well, yes, Qawsed, but that password wasn't for copy-protection, it was just to save time on return trips (and I really wish Medora had one, too).

No, DF doesn't have copy-protection like that. Or at all, really.

All the answers are include in the documents folder that came in the Arena download.

Yeah I found that out after going through all 83 pages of Other TES games. That took over 3 hours to do. Very tedious lol. At least I found some good hits that I forgot about Arena, so well worth it.

Hah I didn't even know there were documents with the Arena download, I just googled it You can do that to get past every copy protection. What a silly fad that was!

"Stand up...there you go. You were dreaming - what's your name?"

*Please refer to page ##, line ## of your Morrowind manual. Enter the NPC's name below.*

:lol:

Daggerfall was released during this period of time before CD burners became cheap, so being on a CD was deemed protection enough at the time.

Sometimes you had a game released on two version, a floppy one and a CD one, the CD version would have more content (cutscenes and CD soundtrack, quite often) and no copy protection system, while the floppy version having a "read your manual and jump through hoops" system.

Epic.

I agree it's a silly copy protection scheme. However, keep in mind that in 1994 (the year Arena was released) relatively few households had so much as dialup Internet for the World Wide Web. Ubiquitous tools like Google were still on the horizon, and the WWW was very basic indeed.

When I was gaming in the 80s, we had all kinds of hocus pocus to get past silly copy protection schemes. Word hunts like Arena, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_wheel, code sheets in black text on dark brown paper (to defeat photocopiers). You needed a special overlay to read that one, and heaven help you if you lost it because the WWW as we know it today was still decades away. Try Googling for the right code for Pool of Radiance in '88.

good times, good times.