Drog Black Tooth
Self-Ejected
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- Feb 20, 2008
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I basically want to remake the unofficial Arcanum patch as a ddraw.dll hook. Kinda like sfall for Fallout or Temple+ for ToEE. You'd have an INI file where you can turn things on/off, like high resolution, windowed mode, software rendering, level cap, sprite mirroring, combat music, intro movies etc. Or turn additional mods on/off, like Virgil's Debug Menu, extra effects for the Pyro bow, annoying spell effects remover, extra riddles for the ancient game quest and many other loose mods I still have on my HDD.
I've tried doing basic DLL hooking back then and it works, but I was doing that in pure ASM and it's just not very productive.
We could even package the whole UAP into a single data file and include a switch to turn the whole thing on/off.
Or make a launcher/settings app where you can set whatever you want and launch the game.
Any helpers? Let's do it, I'll share the sources. This would increase the compatibility a lot and make the installation very simple. It'd work with Steam and GOG versions without altering any of the files.
I've tried doing basic DLL hooking back then and it works, but I was doing that in pure ASM and it's just not very productive.
We could even package the whole UAP into a single data file and include a switch to turn the whole thing on/off.
Or make a launcher/settings app where you can set whatever you want and launch the game.
Any helpers? Let's do it, I'll share the sources. This would increase the compatibility a lot and make the installation very simple. It'd work with Steam and GOG versions without altering any of the files.
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