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YAE (yet another editor

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:mischief: Someone I know bought Dungeon Lords CE, and after awhile he got Steve's Editor but soon it did't work (an indexing error). So I wrote him a program that would fix the bytes causing the error and allow the editor to then load the sav games OK. Then he found other problems (experience and advance number being off. So I added to my little program to fix those. Well now I have an entire editor (Dungeon Lords CE). It's around 500,000 bytes, but does pretty much every thing Steve's did, just not as flashy, minimal graphics. Would anyone want to try it out? I havn't had a chance to play the game much yet, I was having too much fun building my own editor. :D
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So, you gonna SHARE this or just brag about it?

So, you gonna SHARE this or just brag about it? :p
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of course we want it share ..

set up a link for it or something "hi i fixed the few bugs in the best Dl editor out there,Does anyone want the fixed version or are you happy with the bugged one" LOL

i think the answer is pretty obvious so share ..it. :)
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Geasadair wrote:Not braggin just askin. This site has a whopping 100kb limit so I had to split the file into a self extracting rar AND rename it :rolleyes: with the zip extension before I could upload here. So: just remove the zip extention from all 3 files and run the exe. 647,168 bytes will be the final exe DLv4. L8er
You must have done something wrong; the files won't extract and the archive test also failed.
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I had to delete Geasadair's post. He needs to get permission before we'll host his software on this web site.

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Re-naming rar files to zip, and then making them self extract is kind of tricky. Here are some free file hosts, you could try uploading the editor to one of these sites and then posting a link to it here at the forum. If you can upload the file, then I think people would give it a try...

Free file hosts:

FileFactory - free file hosting

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FlipDrive.com – Free Secure Online File Storage, Internet File Sharing, Photo & Video Sharing, Music Online, Store & Access Documents, Share Files Online, Online Data Backup

*edit* It is worthwhile to note that Winrar will extract rar as well as zip files. You can download a free trial here: WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files
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no problems with his editor works great

renaming the 3 files.. and then running the exe file(the first one) works great it find all 3 parts passes the verify test and .. ive used it.. not as nice graphically ..as dl1.56 but it does seem to work..and best of all i dont have to re hex edit my lvl/adv points and exper when im done.. good job man
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bradr wrote:renaming the 3 files.. and then running the exe file(the first one) works great it find all 3 parts passes the verify test and .. ive used it.. not as nice graphically ..as dl1.56 but it does seem to work..and best of all i dont have to re hex edit my lvl/adv points and exper when im done.. good job man
I don't really think so. Here's why

Originally Posted by Geasadair
Not braggin just askin. This site has a whopping 100kb limit so I had to split the file into a self extracting rar AND rename it with the zip extension before I could upload here. So: just remove the zip extention from all 3 files and run the exe. 647,168 bytes will be the final exe DLv4. L8er
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I removed the zip extention from all three files. Then the files are still inside an archived file and yes the exe is inside the archived file. As a matter of fact, all three files inside their own archive has the same name.

Even when you rename the exe, then extract the 2nd file and rename it, then extract the 3rd file.

When trying to run the exe, it still asks for the original file names before any thing was removed or renamed.

Therefore, I firmly believe you really didn't manage to get the exe to run. Just in case you did, why didn't you say exactly how you went about it :confused:
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Post by bradr »

AAA GK i see your error and yes i have!!!

simply because you didnt understand the direction or perhaps the mechanics of the compression scheme..

heres what you do...

turns out you made thinkgs more complex i always assume pepole are simple*sorry its true *
so i did exactly.. what was posted...



rename each of the 3 parts so it is exactly as it was minus the ".zip"
dlv3.part1.exe dlv4.part2.rar etc...


(do not extract NOR rename and dont extract Then rename anything not specifcly listed here... this is a "span" ..and running the first file it will hunt find and extract the others if they are all in the same directory..)


run the 1st part "dlv4.part1.exe" should be its name..

that is it..


Do not pre extract the other 2 files..
doing so may cause errors...

since you have publicly implied im lying id like you to try this..method and then when it works appologize as publicly..
thank you..
Brad

and for extra credit maybe reply to my post re locations ive always thought youhad a better than avrg handle on things...
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Editor Link

Ok here's the link at the File Factory:
FileFactory.com - free file hosting
When you get there you have to click: Download for free with FileFactory Basic, which will then ask you to match numbers letters before allowing you to dl. This is my latest version, hope you like it. :o This program does not need the .Net Framework to install. L8er
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Anyone able to give me a link to the file or send me the file as the link posted above doesn't seam to be working for me, and it sounded like something good to have for when bugs show up.

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