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Not had the motivation to do anything - too many games out at the moment :P Modern Warfare 2, Mass Effect 2, and shortly AvP...

Hehe, thx, we were just lucky that they didn't seem to want to deliberately protect the maps, they just changed them for some new functionallity I think.

Did you take into account that extra bit that's set in the first byte of the back image tile? It's the most sig bit of the bgimg word, 1000000000000000 ^ If you OR the value of the bgimg with $8000 it will unset that bit, and then the bgimg values look correct, which should display the...

Myself and Kyn looked at the map format last night, it's not changed wildly, it looks like a shorter header - probably a different XOR value for the width and height values, and 3 additional bytes per tile, 2 of them follow the background image, not sure about the 3rd byte yet. Oh, and the LSB...

The reason it wouldn't work is 3D kinda sucks in MMORPG games - It's the whole combat / movement mechanics that make Mir 2 what it is, ie. the tile based movement and combat. If you had tile based mechanics in a true 3D engine then that could work, but if it was like WOW or WAR where you are...

Thx, will take a look later.

I will try and take a look later. Would be useful if someone could upload one of the new wil files somewhere for me to download.

You would get a really good MX5 for that.

Yeah, that's what I did with my philli branch.

LOL! I think he meant what's a sandbox in the context of running the program. Basically, download MS virtual PC and run any prog within that - it's not a perfect sandbox but if you disable network support before you test there's little chance of any virus / trojan infecting your host system...

It needs more work yet, I don't think we have optimized it or finished the code that converts to .WIL yet. We will try and take a look later this week. Part of the thing that put us off is the libs aren't 100% compatible with Korean - due to missing hairs etc + fishing just made it even worse...

All very interesting stuff - I am particularly interested in protection that was disabled and unpacking etc. Lif, what did you need to do?

If it's under warranty send it to MS, if not, find out what DVD make you have - there are guides where you can find out from the ejected drawer. Then go on EBAY and order a new laser. Normally very easy to install but you would need some proper screwdrivers to take it to bits and not...

I think we'd be best configuring the thing to disable hairs beyond the standard 2 to allow in the new models - ie. make it configurable so you can force use of hairs 0 and 1 if configured to use new WIL files, that's what I plan on doing. Kyn, we need to get together and discuss the philli...

A bit of voodoo, black magic, pizza, some beer, and a hex editor ;) Luckily the chinese didn't do half of what I had expected them to do, else we'd have been taking months to work it out - as it was it probably took us 3 or 4 evenings of combined efforts.