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v1.5 ===================================================================== I T R C H E C K ===================================================================== DISCLAIMER Free Lunch Design does not accept responsibility for any effects, adverse or otherwise, that this software may have on you, your computer, your sanity, your dog, or anything else that you can think of. Use it at your own risk. We have, however, never experienced any trouble with it. WHAT IS ITRCHECK? Icy Tower is a very popular game, and as with any popular game, there will be cheaters. We've tried making cheating as hard as possible but there are always people who want to ruin the fun for others who slip through. ITRCHECK is a way to check the integrity and the validity of saved replays to see if they have been tampered with or not. For previous Icy Tower versions, a program called ITRCHECK was used to see if a replay was modified or not. As of Icy Tower 1.4, this functionality is built into the game itself. HOW TO USE ITRCHECK? Although ITRCHECK is a part of icytower15.exe, you need to use it from the command line. To open up the command line, click START in Windows and then "Run...". In the dialog that opens, simply type "cmd" and press enter. A nice little console window will open and you should now navigate to where you installed the game using the "cd" command. If you don't know how to do this, ask some computer interested person that you know and they can show you. To check replays you use the icytower15.exe as a command, but with flags. Like so: c:\games\icytower15\> icytower15.exe -check somereplay.itr > output.txt Exchange somereplay.itr with the filename of whatever replay you want to check. When the program is done, thech output.txt for results. This will return an xml structure that holds a lot of information. If you know what you're doing you can use this information to determine if the replay is ok or not.

Should you want more or less information, the following flags can be added to the command line: -jumps -combos -keys -sd -all -tiny adds adds adds adds adds only a tag with a tag with a tag with a tag with all of the outputs if all jumps made in the game all combos made in the game all key presses sd information above tags the result is ok or not

For example: c:\games\icytower15\> icytower15.exe -check somereplay.itr -tiny > output.t xt SLOW DOWN (SD) For those of you who are hunting slow down players, ITRCHECK makes your day easier by allowing you to add the -sd flag. When applied, the xml will include an xml tag that holds time data from when the replay was recorded. Time data is recorded in four different ways every now and then while playing and is used to determine the speed at which the game was played. In the sd-tag, each entry looks like this: <entry clk="50.00" qpc="49.94" tme="50.00" dns="50.13" flr="123" /> CLK, QPC, TME and DNS all refer to the four different measurements. What each letter combination means is irrelevant. FLR on the other hand is what floor the player was located at when the measuring was done. If the game was played at its intended speed, all the four first values should be as close to 50.00 as possible. As you see from the example, some variations will occur even if played correctly. If a replay was recorded in SD (knowingly or not), some of the values will change in the appropriate direction, and you can use this to help you decide wether you think the replay is ok or not. Be aware that this system is not bullet proof and that cheaters will try to break it. You must always use common sense and not only rely on the technology. Good luck!

KNOWN ISSUES Although we've done our best to cover our backs, we cannot guarantee that this tool is fail safe. Evil and morally instable persons may still be able to find ways to trick the game and its players that they have achieved more than they have. There's not much to do about this, in the end it is up to you to determine what's right and what's not. Good luck!