#4619356 - 01/25/23 12:18 PM
Re: night missions
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MrJelly
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when done correctly the game constantly produce the right planes Exactly. Editing these files fixes the problem caused by the 1.2 exe not transmitting the host's AI planes values to the other players. From Gunst's notes MISSION FILES (MISNxx.DAT)
There are Mission files: MISN40.DAT MISN43.DAT MISN44.DAT MISN45.DAT
Presumably these affect the aircraft available in missions in the various years.
Each file is 60 d bytes long, divided into 3 equal chunks of 20 d bytes.
MISN40.DAT
0400 0000 [090a 1013 0000 0000] ff80 ff40 0000 0000 04=4 flyable aircraft.
Types=Hurri(09),Spit 1(0a), 109E(10), 110C(13)
ff etc= probability (?) of appearance
0500 0000 [091c 1319 1b00 0000] ffff 2080 4000 0000 05= 5 aircraft
Types=Hurri, He111, 110C, Ju88A, Ju87
ff etc=probability as bomber(?)
0200 0000 [1c19 0000 0000 0000] ff80 0000 0000 0000 02=2 aircraft
Types=He111, Ju88A
ff=probability as bomber (?)
Last edited by MrJelly; 01/25/23 12:21 PM. Reason: Notes added
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#4619358 - 01/25/23 12:37 PM
Re: night missions
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MrJelly
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A few days ago I posted this as the reason why the thread was revived: The facts are simple. Two days ago when I checked to see who was online I saw a new member who was reading this thread. So I had a look too, and realising that it was way out of date I added some posts to update it. Nothing more and nothing less Your reply was as follows What an extra ordinary coincidence, I added a few more things too but more as a teaser for the general public. It seemed that you were happy with my explanation, but in later posts you appear to believe that I revived the post to attack your work. I have several issues with the EAWPro release that is publicly available, but I have not raised them.
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#4619366 - 01/25/23 02:29 PM
Re: night missions
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VonBeerhofen
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I did the same test with stock v1.2 and it behaved exactly the same. Glad it did as it would have turned EAW into a pretty stupid game for me and others, not even mentioning that the original programmers not catching the issue would have looked pretty stupid. Also there are no references to this issue anywhere, not in anyones notes or this forum, besides yours in this thread. I do however have an alternative explanation, which is that when a particular system file in EAW isn't present Windows will try to find that file and use a replacement where ever it finds a file with the right name. .DAT files are system files and I've seen such mishaps with .INI files too, but that was in Windows Me and XP. It's been another problem in OAW when people weren't doing things right as it had heaps of system files in it's folders, so occasionally we were just as baffled when after comparing folders things still weren't working right.
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#4619368 - 01/25/23 02:44 PM
Re: night missions
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oldgrognard
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Ok, this has become acrimonious for no reason. VBH, there was no need for you to have made the issue. Stop it.
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