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Postby jjim » Fri Sep 24, 2004 5:13 am

This is a curly one for freakboy or anyone else with a technical brain:
I am trying to patch the rip for thief 2 with the official 1.07 to 1.18 patch.
I think the rip is version 1.00 but some of the gameplay implies it is 1.07. The registry setup for the rip is as follows:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Looking Glass Studios]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Looking Glass Studios\Thief 2 The Metal Age]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Looking Glass Studios\Thief 2 The Metal Age\1.0]
"NeverAgain"=dword:00000000

When trying to patch the game it says installation path not recognised - reinstall the game and start again . I have installed the game to c:\thief2.
Any help really appreciated.
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Postby freakboy » Fri Sep 24, 2004 2:03 pm

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\thief2.exe]
"path"="c:\\thief2"


it also asks for the thief2.exe, though i dont know if it checks if the exe is cracked or not, [i cant check it, because i dont have this game].
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Postby jjim » Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:09 pm

Thanks for that freakboy - that gets the patch started. Halfway through the process stops with the error message in the patch log:

message 9 Message text is Applying MODIFY File Patch for 'intrface.crf'
Error message 3 for filename intrface.crf
Warning text is
error ept0036:
(file doesn't match)

All other previous .crf files were patched and the game runs ok - is there a way to get the patch to skip files that don't match and continue with the ones that do ? Or maybe force it to patch even if it doesn't match - or some other solution? I know it's alot of trouble but this is a very significant patch with major changes.
Thanks again for your ingenious help. :up:
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Postby freakboy » Fri Sep 24, 2004 10:31 pm

cant help you here. Probably the patch injects the gamefiles into the pack, which is modified by the group that ripped it, and it checks crc and refuses to progress. If someone has an iso of the game, maybe he would be kind and upload the unpatched 'intrface.crf'.
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Postby jjim » Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:23 pm

ok hopefully someone has the original intrface.crf - thanks for your help getting this far .
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Postby freakboy » Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:27 pm

no problem m8.
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Postby Hellsgate » Sat Sep 25, 2004 1:00 pm

I just downloaded the patch from here

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http://www.sold-out.co.uk/downloads/_patches/t2patch107_118.exe
and it extracted to any dir - ? lol dunno

where did you get your patch from
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Postby jjim » Sat Sep 25, 2004 9:07 pm

Thanks - i'll try that later - the one i got was from eidos official site and only 32mb - are you saying that this is just a self extracting exe? :up:
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Postby Hellsgate » Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:09 pm

Yes and I'll have a proper fix for you later today - also you will find that all the .crf files are infact zip files - In that DL i mentioned is a Patchlog text file - I have an idea that the file motiondb.bin goes into one of those .crf files mentioned in it.

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Postby jjim » Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:25 pm

Sounds good - thanks for the help :up: :up:
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Postby Hellsgate » Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:56 am

O.k I was gonna buy this game a week ago and forgot about it till you mentioned it - so went out and bought it today :up: - I installed and ran patch update - here's the log.

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message 9 Message text is
----- Processing Patch File -----
Message 7[begin] miss6.osm
message 9 Message text is Applying MODIFY File Patch for 'miss6.osm'
message 9 Message text is     Writing New File
message 9 Message text is    
message 9 Message text is     Verifying - Passed!
message 9 Message text is     Deleting Old File
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename miss6.osm
Message 7[begin] miss7.osm
message 9 Message text is Applying MODIFY File Patch for 'miss7.osm'
message 9 Message text is     Writing New File
message 9 Message text is    
message 9 Message text is     Verifying - Passed!
message 9 Message text is     Deleting Old File
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename miss7.osm
Message 7[begin] books.crf
message 9 Message text is Applying ADD File Patch for 'books.crf'
message 9 Message text is     Adding New File
message 9 Message text is     Verifying - Passed!
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename books.crf
Message 7[begin] fam.crf
message 9 Message text is Applying ADD File Patch for 'fam.crf'
message 9 Message text is     Adding New File
message 9 Message text is     Verifying - Passed!
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename fam.crf
Message 7[begin] strings.crf
message 9 Message text is Applying ADD File Patch for 'strings.crf'
message 9 Message text is     Adding New File
message 9 Message text is     Verifying - Passed!
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename strings.crf
Message 7[begin] mesh.crf
message 9 Message text is Applying ADD File Patch for 'mesh.crf'
message 9 Message text is     Adding New File
message 9 Message text is     Verifying - Passed!
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename mesh.crf
Message 7[begin] snd.crf
message 9 Message text is Applying MODIFY File Patch for 'snd.crf'
message 9 Message text is     Writing New File
message 9 Message text is    
message 9 Message text is     Verifying - Passed!
message 9 Message text is     Deleting Old File
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename snd.crf
Message 7[begin] obj.crf
message 9 Message text is Applying MODIFY File Patch for 'obj.crf'
message 9 Message text is     Writing New File
message 9 Message text is    
message 9 Message text is     Verifying - Passed!
message 9 Message text is     Deleting Old File
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename obj.crf
Message 7[begin] intrface.crf
message 9 Message text is Applying MODIFY File Patch for 'intrface.crf'
message 9 Message text is     Writing New File
message 9 Message text is    
message 9 Message text is     Verifying - Passed!
message 9 Message text is     Deleting Old File
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename intrface.crf
Message 7[begin] DARK.GAM
message 9 Message text is Applying DELETE File Patch for 'DARK.GAM'
message 9 Message text is     Deleting Old File
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename DARK.GAM
Message 7[begin] DARK.GAM
message 9 Message text is Applying ADD File Patch for 'DARK.GAM'
message 9 Message text is     Adding New File
message 9 Message text is     Verifying - Passed!
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename DARK.GAM
Message 7[begin] motiondb.bin
message 9 Message text is Applying MODIFY File Patch for 'motiondb.bin'
message 9 Message text is     Writing New File
message 9 Message text is    
message 9 Message text is     Verifying - Passed!
message 9 Message text is     Deleting Old File
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename motiondb.bin
Message 7[begin] thief2.exe
message 9 Message text is Applying DELETE File Patch for 'thief2.exe'
message 9 Message text is     Old Version of File 'thief2.exe' does not exist.
Message 8[complete] for filename thief2.exe
Message 7[begin] THIEF2.ICD
message 9 Message text is Applying DELETE File Patch for 'THIEF2.ICD'
message 9 Message text is     Deleting Old File
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename THIEF2.ICD
Message 7[begin] thief2.exe
message 9 Message text is Applying ADD File Patch for 'thief2.exe'
message 9 Message text is     Adding New File
message 9 Message text is     Verifying - Passed!
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename thief2.exe
Message 7[begin] THIEF2.ICD
message 9 Message text is Applying ADD File Patch for 'THIEF2.ICD'
message 9 Message text is     Adding New File
message 9 Message text is     Verifying - Passed!
message 9 Message text is
Message 8[complete] for filename THIEF2.ICD
Message 7[begin] LGT.URL
message 9 Message text is Applying MODIFY File Patch for 'LGT.URL'
Error message 3 for filename LGT.URL
Warning text is
error ept0036:


Now this update patch is retarded because it stoped at bloody LGT.url - I mean that is really worth quiting a update for now isn't it - and I have the Bloody Original game :down: running the patch again tells you it's updated - RETARDS in the patch department me thinks (If you got that file LGT.url I can continue with patch if it's a match) - That 45mb DL url I gave for the patch does not have all the files that the game patchs in it as these also get patched

gen.osm
convict.osm
archer.osm

~These files~

books.crf
fam.crf
strings.crf
mesh.crf
snd.crf
obj.crf
intrface.crf

Some of these are in the RES dir and are written as updates to thief 2 Root dir so if gonna use update patch better make sure all files are patched because at some time in the game they will be accessed.

get back to me if you have that LGT.url file in your rip









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Postby jjim » Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:17 am

THANKS again - Yes i have that url in my rip :
(Crazy that a patch wants a dead url though.)
I have ran the patch that you gave me and it patched ok but it obviously missed some files as you mentioned - the official 32 mb patch was looking for these files such as the interface one.
Here are screenies of my "patched " root and res directories:

Good luck with your game - Any help you can give in finishing off my patch would be really appreciated.
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Postby Hellsgate » Sun Sep 26, 2004 12:02 pm

Who said Warez was EVUL - I had a mate get that same file off a cracked ISO but it must have been a iso after the patch was made cos it was url for eidos - dude that one little file from the rip made the update patch work 100% just because the link was for lglass.com etc - OMFG that is so lame.

o.k Down to fixing the problem

Goto here

[LINK REMOVED]

Use IE to view site - now do you have QuickSFV - NO! well go into the
Download 1st dir and download the Program and also download the Checkfiles.SFV - If you already added those files to your thief2 dir from the 45mb patch I told you about then drop Checkfiles.SFV into the root folder of thief2 after you installed the QuickSFV program and double click on that Checkfiles.SFV file - now all the files that come up bad/crc just download from the address above - I have ziped up each file seperate with file extensions so you know what file is what.

The game .exe's are the patch ones they are not cracked - I will upload this extracted patch for 3DSL with original .exe's for anyone who has original or not to be able to update the game.

If you have the Updated cracked .exe for the patch then I wouldn't mind you uploading for me - If you up a lvl on that site - go into uploads - top right is upload button click on it - works very much the same as Yahoo Briefcase uploading.

Forgot to add - all files go into thief 2 root folder - don't put any in RES folder.

Patch and Play away dude

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Postby jjim » Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:23 pm

Thanks for your great help - good instructions and well organisied.
I hadn't used the sfv before - nice little prog - i needed 6 files - thanks for upping them.
I have upped the crack package to your site with instructions - i got them from gamecopy world - tried several before this one that works.
Another A1 3dsl helper :up: :up:
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Postby Hellsgate » Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:42 pm

No problems mate and thx for the crack - I'll package all that up with crack and upload for everyone to download.


P.S Brisbane Lions Sucked real bad (you know what I mean :) ) :angry:

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