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 7609, already fully assembled

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7609 SCI (fully assembled) (eng) (updated GameDir, more fixes) ==> improved version *strongly recommended*

7609 to-go (fully assembled) (eng) ==> standard version

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7609 (eng) (not assembled) (eng) (archives zip instead of exe, links to mods, shortened instructions)

==> basic 7609, no SCI (alternate version to official 7609 download)

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Assembly:


7609 to-go ==> Standard-Version

So far, getting 7609 requires the handling of two files:

"JA2_113_FullRelease_English_7435.exe" (following: "Full 7435") and "JA2_113_UpdateForRelease7435_English_7609.exe" (following: "update to 7609").

The later contains the file "zPatch.bat" and it's requirements for running (and two changelogs).

Basicly, running zPatch.bat is doing the update to 7609.


Looking at the zPatch.bat,

it deletes the following (from 7435):

Data-1.13\MercEdt\004.EDT
Data-1.13\MercEdt\013.EDT
Data-1.13\MercEdt\014.EDT
Data-1.13\MercEdt\015.EDT
Data-1.13\MercEdt\020.EDT
Data-1.13\MercEdt\031.EDT
Data-1.13\MercEdt\037.EDT
Data-1.13\MercEdt\040.EDT
Data-1.13\MercEdt\149.EDT
Data-1.13\MercEdt\167.EDT
Data-1.13\MercEdt\169.EDT
Faces Viewer.exe
Merc Profile Editor.exe
MercProfileEditorInit.ini
MercProfileEditorLanguages.xml

The mercEDT later will be added in "Data"
FaceViewer later will be added again in "Tools".
An updated version of MercProfileEditor later will be added in "Tools".

Adding the stuff mentioned above and the rest of the update-files stem from "zzExtractedFiles".
It will overwrite stuff in 7435, if allready there (triggered inside zPatch.bat).

So far, that's moving a few files and the rest is classic adding and overwriting.

Except when "zzToolP.exe" is starting "zzToolP.patch" (triggerd inside zPatch.bat)

REM EXECUTE PATCH OPERATION
REM zzToolP.exe is just a rename of GNU Patch v2.5.9 binary
ECHO Patching Necessary Files...
ECHO.
zzToolP.exe -p0 -s < zzToolP.patch
ECHO.
ECHO ---=   File Patching Done   =---
ECHO.
ECHO.

which will directly apply changes to those files:

Data-1.13\Ja2_Options.INI
Data-1.13\TableData\MercProfiles.xml
Data-UB\AddOns\Data-UB-1.13\TableData\MercProfiles25.xml
Data\Ja2_Options.INI

The above files also will get an backup (e.g. Ja2_Options..INI => two dots instead of one).

Beside the changes to those four files directly above, it's just adding and overwriting (few files deleted, but later added at different place).

All files handled by the zPatch.bat effect 7435 only (not vanila).

Once the files from "update to 7609" have been added to "Full 7435" and zPatch.bat has been executed, 7609 is fully assembled. At least, if I haven't missed something.

If I'm not mistaken, I wonder why there is no ready-to-use, allready fully assembled 7609-version, ready for download ? If there is any, I'm not aware of it.

So I assembled a full 7609 ("full 7435" + "update to 7609"). Then I deleted the four backup-files (who's gonna need them nowadays?) and added a Readme (basicly this text here).

This done, I zipped it into 7609 to-go (fully assembled) (eng)

Extract and copy content into original JA2 (gold) (english version).

If you rather assemble it yourself, it's based on official v1.13 7435-7609 english ("JA2_113_FullRelease_English_7435.exe" + "JA2_113_UpdateForRelease7435_English_7609.exe") from Bear's Pit download section.

Complete instruction on how to assemble 7435-7609 and more can be found here: How to get: latest 1.13, 7609, feature-descriptions and more

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7609-SCI ==> Improved Version

Based on the SVN-GameDir for official 2014 release (a.k.a. 7609) which sevenfm provided below, I was able to assemble an improved version.

The standard version is based on GameDir 2171, this one uses GameDir 2577 (branch ja2_data_official_2014, not main trunk).

It comes with fixes and improvements (still matching 7609.exe, no worries) and assembling it is slightly easier since no .bat-file is involved.

Did checkout and update the SVN-GameDir and then added the exe-files from "zzExtractedFiles" (part of "JA2_113_UpdateForRelease7435_English_7609", see above).

Took data from svn-log to update ChangeLogData and added both changelogs (again from "JA2_113_UpdateForRelease7435_English_7609") as well.

Updated the folder "Docs" with content taken from trunk 1.13 (8911/2577) (trunk is the main-1.13-project, branches are for other versions, like the official 2014 (7609)). Reasoning for this was to provide up-to-date links for help with technical issues and other useful stuff. Might be worth a look.

Added a Readme and then zipped it into 7609 SCI Fully assembled 7609 with more up-to-date GameDir and therefore more fixes.

Extract and copy content into your original JA2-instal.

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Both versions work, but due to the fixes in SVN-GameDir, I strongly recommend to use the 7609 SCI

Can be used for any 7609-mod and works with 7609+AI as well.

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If you wanna sneak peak the ChangeLog:

ChangeLog_GameDir_2171-2577

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If you're not convinced by the SCI-versions, you may wanna give this alternate version of a basic 7609-download a look:

7609 (eng) ==> Basic 7609-download, no SCI

7609 (eng) is an alternate version of official v1.13 7435-7609 english (GameDir 2171, see above). This is not an already assembled SCI, it's the basic 7609-download, packed a little more convinient.

The archives in official version are self-extracting zip-archives (exe). In the alternate version (7609 (eng)) those are ordinary zip-archives. I considered this more convinient.

The alternate version also contains intall-instructions and links to mods (and link to other language-versions of 7609). The official version lacks this, which at least for instructions seems unconvinient.

Anything inside the 7435/7609-archives themselves is unchanged and the same as from official download.

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Edit: Added improved version (7609-SCI), text and links for it.

Edit: Changed title of topic to "SCI". Should be more recognizable when using standard terms.

Edit: added sneak peak to ChangeLog

Edit: added 7609 (eng)

[Updated on: Tue, 03 November 2020 04:09]



How to get: latest 1.13, 7609 and more | 7609 SCI (eng) | Compiling+SVN

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