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Quest Flags go away on recovery

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 8:56 am
by DarkwoodBBS
When I run an offline recovery, mudrev quest flags using Ability 200 or higher seem to be removed from characters. Is there any way to prevent this?

Re: Quest Flags go away on recovery

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:12 am
by syntax
it's one of the cracks in the dll that needs to be made

edit: actually, to the wccmmutl.exe file

Re: Quest Flags go away on recovery

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:53 am
by BearFather
Do you know what to look for to crack this?

I would love to raise the numbers myself.

Re: Quest Flags go away on recovery

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:57 am
by syntax
I do. I have a crack for what says to be for "v1.11o and v1.11p-beta13" but the v1.11p-final has a different CRC. Also tested the crack on the v1.11o and v1.11p-beta13 wccmmutl.exe files and while it says it patched it, it also says it failed the crc check. So I'm trying to verify it all for v1.11p final.

Re: Quest Flags go away on recovery

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 10:42 am
by syntax
So I just verified it. There is a file called " MajorMUD_v1.11o-v1.11p-b13_AbilityStripCrack.exe "

You run it and it says --

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MajorMUD v1.11o & v1.11p-beta13
*Offline Ability Strip Fix"

this will patch wccmmutl.exe to stop it from stripping abilities > 190.

this hack will only work on the v1.11o and v1.11p-beta13 wccmmutl.exe file.  it will appear to apply correctly to other versions but not work.

(v1.11p-beta13 was the latest wccmmutl.exe at the time of this patch creation)
I just verified that it also works on the v1.11p final wccmmutl.exe.

It changes...

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CODE:00403C9E                 cmp     [ebp+ebx*2+var_C2], 0BEh
to...

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CODE:00403C9E                 cmp     [ebp+ebx*2+var_C2], 7FFFh
0BEh => 190
7FFFh => 32767

Hex editor offset 3CA6

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3CA6:	BE => FF
3CA7:	00 => 7F
@offset 3C9E through 3CA7

stock:

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6681BC5D3EFFFFFFBE00
cracked:

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6681BC5D3EFFFFFFFF7F

Re: Quest Flags go away on recovery

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 10:32 am
by BearFather
I'm not finding that file in google, so I will have to bust out the hex editor and give it a whirl. Thanks, I wish I knew this a year ago, much better then trying to shove all my quest flags into lower numbers.

Re: Quest Flags go away on recovery

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 10:36 am
by syntax
Here

Re: Quest Flags go away on recovery

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 1:45 am
by DarkwoodBBS
Thank you i will try this out

Re: Quest Flags go away on recovery

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 12:25 pm
by Bloodrock
my antivirus reports the crack is a virus

Re: Quest Flags go away on recovery

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 12:28 pm
by BearFather
Bloodrock wrote:my antivirus reports the crack is a virus
I'm not saying it's clean, but most programs that edit a file the way this does is considered a virus by the more "robust" antivirus software. I would google the the message your antivirus thinks it is.