ndck76 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 7:53 pm
Finally, I would be most grateful if you could submit your rating if the table works for you as time, patience and effort were put into making these tables and also as a gesture of your support. Thank you all very much.
Came here looking for answers activating the Preorder Bonus Outfit, saw the new update.
Asterigos: Curse Of The Stars (GOG) v1.05 (rc4) [2022-12-07]
I'm already maxed out, as far as I can be currently. Tables populating with all the correct values, and seems to function as well as ever, working on the assumption if everything's getting populated, it can be changed.
Onto why I came to this thread.
Somebody was asking for if Preorder bonus Outfit would be sold.
They were a Steam user, and I thought, easy task to give them the files.
Due to installing games across many drives, I SymLink my games to my Games Drive.
Where I'm forced to use Store Client locations (Steam, EA Desktop), and dumb names used, they are ALL SymLinks.
GOG is where I get 80% of my games, because Downloadable Offline Installers are my preference.
GOG is old school, and records where the games get installed in the Registry.
Extra Game Content, like;
setup_asterigos_pre-order_bonus_pack_1.05_(rc4)_(64bit)_(60777).exe
Go in the location in the registry automatically, even if games no longer there.
That should make it an easy task to get the right files, but no game files ever get installed.
Just these GOG management files that every GOG game has:
EULA.txt
goggame-2125000806.hashdb
goggame-2125000806.ico
goggame-2125000806.info
support.ico
unins001.exe
unins001.dat
unins001.ico
unins001.ini
unins001.msg
webcache.zip
Caveat: as the Unistall files for the game were missing, the number wasn't Incremented to 1;
That was my manual edit, to match the installed game naming.
Installation was successful, with no install log.txt created, which is what happens with GOG Installers if a required file is missing.
So It's not inserting the loose files into a pak archive.
What triggers the activation of the Preorder outfit?
The Steam version doesn't have these GOG files, and all the other files are untouched (Hash checked).
Game's Ini files are also unchanged.
So I'm working on the theory it's a check for one of these GOG/Steam files, then toggle outfit on at runtime.
It must be a memory change, or I'd get a failed hash check, and the outfit isn't baked into a save.
Checked that, when I tried to install the v1.04 Pre-order Bonus in the 1.05 game, and the old installer wouldn't work.
Anyway, it's a weird way of going about activating the Preorder Bonus, but changing memory toggles based on store files existing is the only way I can think of to do this, and Cheat Engines made for such things.