Scrambled ini files
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Freeware doesn’t always mean Free Software. Contacting the authors, if it is possible, won’t harm.
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I’m still having to deal with the encrypted ini files, which is slowly but surely becoming a p.i.t.a.
I’m sure there is a (probably simple) way to sort it, since most mods don’t have their ini files look like this. There’s obviously a way to decrypt them.Any help anyone?
@Timmy:
I tried what you suggested m8, but Fl Explorer won’t read my files. Keeps shouting “no game files found - EXITING!” (or something along those lines) at me, no matter what file or folder I select. My mod files are in the default Freelancer location. -
=Alex= wrote:
These are not encrypted, but stored in the BINI format.M1C wrote:
Depends on the definiton of encryption, for newbes they look encrypted.The readme files of a lot of Bini editors refer to it as ‘encrypted’. But you might as well call it scrambled, unworkable, or hocus-pocus lol. I’m not much one with a lot of knowledge for technical terms, and tbh I don’t really care either. Just want them to work.
The Bini edit program worked a charm, thanks again M1C.
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What? The SDK does not leave any file unchanged, unless you’re speaking of mod files.
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I’m pretty sure SDK left a couple of (b)ini’s unchanged, and they were definitely vanilla, since I ran SDK on the vanilla game. Couldn’t tell you which files though, can’t remember.
If you want to know which files they were, I could run SDK again on a vanilla copy. -
Maverick wrote:
@Timmy:
I tried what you suggested m8, but Fl Explorer won’t read my files. Keeps shouting “no game files found - EXITING!” (or something along those lines) at me, no matter what file or folder I select. My mod files are in the default Freelancer location.That’s weird. I just unzipped the frontier space mod, dropped the mod folder into the FLMM/mods folder. Started up flexplorer and chose frontier space when asked if i want to open an existing mod. Bingo, all system files decrypted. Haven’t even got bini and I’ve never used it, started modding well after there was any need of that tool. You can tell the mod was made with flexplorer, and I can’t imagine why he would have gone to the hastle of using bini to put all those files back into the old format.
At least you’ve sorted it now, that’s the main thing.
