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Nice work, Fox.

I’m going to try to update the wiki page later.

Surprised this one hasn’t already been posted: Does anyone know what changes are needed for the no-CD patch?

Huh, you may compare two binary files and get offset, but is it l3g@l?

FriendlyFire already posted the no-CD patched freelancer.exe in the downloads section: http://the-starport.net/freelancer/download/singlefile.php?cid=1&lid=2649

So I would assume so, yes.

No-CD patches are a gray area, but considering many bargain bin (yet still official) versions of FL include one, I don’t think they’d bother anymore

Doubtful. As far as I know, the original EXE is encrypted to a certain extent. The No-CD EXE has patches on top of a full decryption of said EXE.

Just spent the last hour and a half updating the wiki. Pretty sure most things are on there now.

I wrote a simple PHP script to read lines out of a file and convert them into the right format for the wiki. Each one of these lines is assumed to be in the same format as used for Fox’s text file. Obviously, it will not work with Adoxa’s max MP credit hack. Consider it WTFPL licensed.

", "-->", $secondsplit[0]);
        $comment = substr($secondsplit[1], 0, strpos($secondsplit[1], "~") - 1);
        $author = substr($secondsplit[1], strpos($secondsplit[1], "~") + 1);

        echo "|".$defaultvalue."\t||".$file."\t||".$offset."\t||".$author."\t||".$comment."\r\n|-\r\n";
}
?>

@FF & @Fox

No one prevents you to unpack/decrypt the CD dependent version.
There are unpackers/decryptors in bulk at the inet.

@Fox, Sorry I forgot about credits - copy-pasted as is )) Fix please, it is Adoxa:

server.dll   06BFA6   E4B4->14B3 = disable encryption on creating MP character ~adoxa
server.dll   06E10D   E4B4->14B3 = disable encryption on saving character/game ~adoxa
server.dll   07399D   E4B4->14B3 = disable encryption on creating restart file ~adoxa

So has anybody ever been able to find out how to make asteroids spawn more than 130 K from the system centre?

It would be really amazing if someone could publish a working solution.

there are offsets known where you specify ingame distance units. scaling everything down would at least be a workaround.

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3031

Considering you yourself have asked for this before and gotten a working solution in return, I’m not exactly sure I’m following you…

Maybe you haven’t considered that the “solution” may not be working at all.

Then why didn’t you follow up on that thread? I’m fairly sure adoxa expected the solution to work, and not replying to a solution tends to be a tacit way of saying it works.

Your apparent aggressiveness is rather misplaced.

Does anyone have a hack that would narrow the window of the player jumpin point when using jumpgates/jump holes?

Right now a player spawns at a random point within +/- 550m of the jumpin point when jumping into a system. I’d like to narrow that window to 50m, or even tighter for a specific jump. I’m going to guess it’s an all or nothing deal, i.e. if you do it for one it will work that way for all, but I can deal with that.

Back on page 24 or 25, there was a hack to remove underscore from names on a server. I applied it and it works fine, now i want to reset it to standard and the hack has been removed. Does anyone know which address to goto and what to change it to again please?

robocop wrote:
Awesome. And it works just as I had hoped.
Now, let’s say I wanted to increase the range of the scanner. Let’s say I wanted to be able to see where a player was in the system, no matter how far out. Is that possible?

I see you (Adoxa) say to “search for the nickname and you’ll find the square of the distances before it.” Are you speaking of the plugin? I searched the plugin using tiny hexer but it didn’t come up with anything for ge_s_scanner_02.

edit: And that’s because I was doing it wrong… Now I find it and am experimenting with distances.

All hail Adoxa!

Anyone add another scanner to their game using this plugin? I’m wondering how it would affect unmodded players.

From all the fancy new stuff being made, I want to see just one: the ability to use the mouse wheel to scroll up and down in menus. Or it is hard coded and not possible to implement?

I needed to be able to supress Freelancer Critical warning dialog (which mainly shows as ‘unsupported videocard’ ) and surprisingly for me i came up with initial patch in an hour and thinned it down to one byte in another three hours. Was a night well spent One byte size made me really happy

I can’t remember if anyone did this already but in case anyone needs it:```
Freelancer.exe 001B16FC 84->33 = supress Unsupported video dialog ~OutCast