"Which type of multiplayer game…"button removal??

[adoxa]

The buttons are set up in a loop. The patch tests if the counter is above 1 (0 = new game, 1 = load game) and, if not, uses a big negative number to calculate the offset (thus moving it off screen, rendering it useless). Doing it this way, there’s room to remove any two buttons, or one button plus any number of buttons from the top or bottom. It would also be possible to shift them to the right side of the screen, or display them as a row, rather than a column. Anything else would require a plugin. The text of the buttons can be removed by replacing the other 80 3E sequences: 174744, 174781, 1747BE.

Specifically, if you want to remove MULTIPLAYER, replace 01 77 with 02 75 and put 00 00 into 174744. Shifting the other buttons up is more complicated.

[Huor]

Wow amazing Adoxa. I am just curious how you find out what offset at the exe causes what effect in game? I know there is a relation but never understood how you could find something like elements from within the application in the exe binary code (besides static strings :)).

That worked! Thx again!

[adoxa]

Huor wrote:
I am just curious how you find out what offset at the exe causes what effect in game?

For stuff that uses text, I just search my disassembly listing for its resource number. That will show me where the button is created, then it’s off to the debugger to track down where it gets used.

[NeXoSE]

Funny, the offset: 1E28C4, i change it to 52, then, Avira say that is a virus. Looks they don’t like that color. LOL

[cvekiboy]

Yea - also my .exe suddenly become a virus

[Dromedary]

adoxa wrote:
Specifically, if you want to remove MULTIPLAYER, replace 01 77 with 02 75 and put 00 00 into 174744. Shifting the other buttons up is more complicated.

You got me here. At which address do i do this? Followed the examples for removing the singleplayer buttons and that worked fine. Want to try just removing the multiplayer button now myself.

You say replace 01 77 with 02 75, but where? Which address do i type in to get those?

[adoxa]

# Remove the "MULTIPLAYER" button on the main menu.
# Jason Hood, 28 November, 2009 & 29 June, 2014.

File: Freelancer.exe
174634: E8 47 E5 EA FF 83 7C 24 50 02 75 [ C7 44 24 70 00 00 00 00 C7 44 24 ]
        11 DB 05 4C 46 57 00 EB 0D       [ 74 00 00 00 00 C7 44 24 78 ]
174744: 00 00 [ 80 3E ]
```I guess you're familiar with what to do, but for those who came in late… As is, the above is a file used by my [BwPatch](http://misc.adoxa.vze.com/#bwpatch) utility (so save it as **nomp.crk** and run **bwpatch -f nomp.crk** within the **EXE** directory, or change the paths as appropriate). Doing it manually, load up **Freelancer.exe** in a hex editor, navigate to hex offset **174634** (which may need to be specified as **0x174634**, depending on the editor), where you should see the bytes inside the brackets - overwrite them with the bytes before the brackets.

[Dromedary]

Now i understand. Used to messing about with modifying the exe and applying changes, just couldn’t see the address i needed to go to. Thanks for the heads up.

+++ Just tested this and works great !!

[Kazinsal]

This might be a bit much to ask, adoxa, but have you got any idea how to grey out and disable the “MULTIPLAYER” button without actually removing it? Would like to be able to do that for Broken Bonds’ offline mode.

[adoxa]

Freelancer.exe	166571	04->00 = grey out "MULTIPLAYER" menu button ~adoxa
```If you want to do it programmatically, you could dynamically patch the above (at 0x566571 of course), or *(int*)0x67BA50 ^= 1 to disable/toggle it and *(DWORD*)0x67BAB0 = 0xAABBGGRR to change the color (disabled color @ 0x67BAC0). (It's not normally how you'd disable a button, but this one is on a timer, which is what the patch modifies.)