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Wolfie · 05-15-2005, 10:42 PM

For those of you who might be following this, hit a rather big show-stopper of a problem, it seems there are US v1.2.4 CDs and EU v1.2.4 CDs (which was news to me), the EU v1.2.4 CDs installs a WIZ8.EXE which is only 103KB in size (whereas the WIZ8.EXE I've got, which was patched up from US v1.0 CDs is over 3.4MB in size, I'm awaiting a reply from one of my US testers on file size of their WIZ8.EXE, but so far the reports coming in are that the de-patch still fails.

Having two different v1.2.4 CDs releases (US English and EU English), neither which seem to be binary-exact as a v1.0 patched to v1.2.4 means a bit of a re-think is required. Since I don't have access to either of the already-patched v1.2.4 CDs personally, have no way of being able to use a patch-making utility to create the de-patch program. Besides, the 2 times I've considered doing this, had only lukewarm interest (guessing most here have the v1.0 originals), so for now I'm dropping the idea (at last I can recoup some disk space!).

My thanks goes to Gator621 / Jetlaw (VN Boards) and Silpion / GMK (IronWorks) for volunteering.

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05-15-2005, 10:42 PM	#4
Wolfie Zhentarim Guard Join Date: February 1, 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 307	For those of you who might be following this, hit a rather big show-stopper of a problem, it seems there are US v1.2.4 CDs and EU v1.2.4 CDs (which was news to me), the EU v1.2.4 CDs installs a WIZ8.EXE which is only 103KB in size (whereas the WIZ8.EXE I've got, which was patched up from US v1.0 CDs is over 3.4MB in size, I'm awaiting a reply from one of my US testers on file size of their WIZ8.EXE, but so far the reports coming in are that the de-patch still fails. Having two different v1.2.4 CDs releases (US English and EU English), neither which seem to be binary-exact as a v1.0 patched to v1.2.4 means a bit of a re-think is required. Since I don't have access to either of the already-patched v1.2.4 CDs personally, have no way of being able to use a patch-making utility to create the de-patch program. Besides, the 2 times I've considered doing this, had only lukewarm interest (guessing most here have the v1.0 originals), so for now I'm dropping the idea (at last I can recoup some disk space!). My thanks goes to Gator621 / Jetlaw (VN Boards) and Silpion / GMK (IronWorks) for volunteering. [img]graemlins/cookiemonster.gif[/img] __________________ Visit [url]\"http://www.foerster.cc/wolfie\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.foerster.cc/wolfie</a> or [url]\"http://wiz8.web1000.com\" target=\"_blank\">http://wiz8.web1000.com</a> (US) for a spreadsheet that allows you to enter in your spellcaster\'s stats, and it will tell you what spells the character can learn, or for spells that they are not yet able to learn, it will tell you how many points they need, or why your character can\'t learn the spell.