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Disable the Fingerprint I.D.[message #9962]

Tue, 28 December 2004 11:27

Khor1255

Messages:1817
Registered:August 2003
Location: Pleasantville, NJ

I'm changing the Rocket Rifle to a Panzerschreck for the WW2 mod I'm doing. I need to remove the figerprint I.D. feature completely from the game.

Has anyone done this?

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Re: Disable the Fingerprint I.D.[message #9963]

Wed, 29 December 2004 23:04

Abdul

Messages:211
Registered:August 2001

Not afaik. I managed to remove the ingame message (~"invalid fingerprint ID. Weapon non-functional") but not the whole procedure that handles the fingerprint IDs (ie the weapon would still require an ID to be set etc). You can also change that message to anything you want, as long as it has max ~50 chars.
This however happened in the early stages of UC beta. Dvornik made a patch for us so we can remove some options from the game interface and possibly(I don't remember) he changed the rocket rifle too. You could email him about it.
As for the actual editing of the message, you need a disassembler and a hex editor. I recommend W32Dasm and Hackman. Disasm. ja2.exe, search for the orginal string, find the offset and from the hex editor, jump to that offset and change the bytes accordingly. Smile

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Sergeant 1st Class

Re: Disable the Fingerprint I.D.[message #9964]

Thu, 30 December 2004 05:00

Khor1255

Messages:1817
Registered:August 2003
Location: Pleasantville, NJ

Perhaps then I could substitute the changing of the fingerprint I.D. part of the game (I believe that freak in Grumm does this) with an instruction on how to use a Panzerschreck. This is unrealistic but maybe a better option than leaving it out altogether.
Thanx for the reply.

Hackman eh?

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Sergeant Major

Re: Disable the Fingerprint I.D.[message #9965]

Fri, 31 December 2004 10:53

Abdul

Messages:211
Registered:August 2001

Quote:

Originally posted by Khor1255:
Hackman eh?

Imo one of the best HEX Editors out there. Smile

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Sergeant 1st Class

Re: Disable the Fingerprint I.D.[message #9966]

Tue, 04 January 2005 07:19

the scorpion

Messages:1834
Registered:September 2004
Location: CH

hello khor

it is possibe to move the fingerprint-ID to another weapon

i moved it in my mod to the bloodcat-claws and the other bloodcat-weapon

i may look around in my folders for the patch...

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Sergeant Major

Re: Disable the Fingerprint I.D.[message #9967]

Tue, 04 January 2005 07:54

Khor1255

Messages:1817
Registered:August 2003
Location: Pleasantville, NJ

That would be great. I could maybe even figure out a use for it (or just scrap whatever weapon I attach it to).

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Re: Disable the Fingerprint I.D.[message #9968]

Tue, 04 January 2005 10:48

the scorpion

Messages:1834
Registered:September 2004
Location: CH

hmmm i just found something but that is for the german versions...

maybe they have it for other versions at LOTB

sry...

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Sergeant Major

Re: Disable the Fingerprint I.D.[message #9969]

Tue, 04 January 2005 18:04

Gunny Steve

Messages:8
Registered:November 2001
Location: Germany

here are the Offsets for the most common JA2-Versions, i retrieved and collected them a while ago

JA2 1.02 Rus

Offset:
0x0A8B47 D1 -> D2
0x0ACDB2 D0 -> D2

JA2 1.05 German

Offset:
0x0C27F6 D1 -> D2
0x0C6A62 D0 -> D2

JA2 1.02 German

Offset:
0x0C4797 D1 -> D2
0x0C8B52 D0 -> D2

JA2 1.07 US

Offset:
0x0D1F9B D1 -> D2
0x0D6412 D0 -> D2

JA2 1.12 German

Offset:
0x0C1B55 D1 -> D2
0x0C5D32 D0 -> D2

JA2 1.12 US

Offset:
0x0C33A9 D1 -> D2
0x0C7632 D0 -> D2

JA2:UB 1.01 US

Offset:
0x0A5DA4 D1 -> D2
0x0AA052 D0 -> D2

JA2:UB 1.01 German Gold

Offset:
0x0A5DC4 D1 -> D2
0x0AA072 D0 -> D2

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Re: Disable the Fingerprint I.D.[message #9970]

Wed, 19 January 2005 00:44

Khor1255

Messages:1817
Registered:August 2003
Location: Pleasantville, NJ

I just downloaded Hackman last night. It seemed to install alright (I also downloaded the VBRuntime SP they said you needed) but when I go to run the .exe it asks me to load a Microsoft Word 2002 disc?

?????

I'd love to get this running so I can maybe solve some of the technical problems right away.

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