The Astérix Gaming Guild: modding

AdrienTD

But then the game would require more RAM.

AdrienTD

So it might be possible only on PC and not consoles.

Nekin

So well ... Can we make a XXL randomizer with every catapult sending you to a random location (start after a catapult) every time ? :wifiStare:

AdrienTD

AdrienTD

Possible but that would require a lot of work.

Nekin

Just submitting my stupid idea ^^

Nekin

but knowing that's possible still makes me happy, even if it would maybe never be done

Nekin

so thx for the answer @AdrienTD 🙂

AdrienTD

Good news! I managed to bypass the LVL header checksum check from the DRM. 🕵, and made the game load the headers from the LVL files themselves unecrypted instead of the EXE. This means that we can edit the LVL header without the game exiting. As the header contains the maximal number of objects allocated per class, this also means that we can raise up the maximum of objects in a level, for example geometries, romans, torches, crates, ... We can also add rocket romans. 😉

NoTeefy

nice! Just make sure to not cause a RAM leak 😄

AdrienTD

There might be a case where the game would try to free memory from the DRM that isn't allocated anymore, but maybe it does check if it is a null pointer first, but it would do it when the game quits anyway.

NoTeefy

True that, but what I can tell you is that it's clearing up stuff if you swap levels

NoTeefy

like the player/model classes

AdrienTD

That shouldn't be a problem I guess, the game should still clean all the objects as the game always did.

AdrienTD

What I pretty much did was remove a checksum check and the decryption part.

NoTeefy

hum, sounds good then

Martyste Tendertail

Amazing.

Martyste Tendertail

Maybe OSome could make use of that to improve some of the game's limits?

PegPeregoGaucho

If mat was a tool developer at ELB I think he knows much more than we do

PegPeregoGaucho

But thank God I'm not limited anymore :lul:

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