[Simple Tutorial] How to change everything in your runnable to YourServer

[Hakurah]

I guess the title wasn't that clear. I'm sorry if I confuse anyone. Basically I'll just teach here how to change everything that says "The Duel" in your runnable to the name of your server. As I said in the title, it's really, really simple, for people that are still starting with their servers.

What you're going to do is open your runnable (I used Xiao's, but it doesn't really matter, as long as it's a theduel.exe) with any Hex editor (I used Hex Workshop and I believe most people here do).


Use the Find command (Ctrl+F), choose Text String and then type The Duel. Press OK. The Hex Editor will find the first entry with The Duel in the exectuable. It might be something related to the name that appears on the task bar or the folder where Replays and Screenshots are going to. Keep using the find command until you replace all the "The Duel" in the runnable. If your server's name is bigger than that in characters, it might work to extend it a couple characters, but I didn't test.

You can also edit, near the Screenshots and Replays area, the name that your saved files will have. For example, in case of my server, instead of Gunz0000.gzr, replays started being saved GzF0000.gzr. The places where you can change this will be "Gunz%03d.gzr" of course the %03d always have to be there.


Make sure you fill the space after the end of your server's name in case it has less than EIGHT characters (THE DUEL). To do that, go to the numbers on the left, click on the one that corresponds the next character after the end of your server's name, and keep typing 00 (means empty) until you get to an untouched part of the code. After that, just save. And you're going to have Screenshots and Replays going to your own server's folder and in the task bar when you open the game.

What you can also do is open your Launcher with the hex editor and look for "theduel.exe" and change it to whatever you want, so that the Launcher will open the executable not named theduel.exe, but yourserver.exe, which is kinda cool (at least I think it is. =P)


I guess part of this tutorial was posted before but I wanted to complete it. I hope it's somewhat helpful for some people.

PS: it should work for Gunz.exe too, just use "Gunz" instead of "The Duel". Be careful with what you change, though, since Gunz might be used more in the runnable than The Duel is. :P

[MentaL]

[Linear88]

You will get:

This is not a valid Win32 application.

You need to fill up the empty bytes.

[Mambo]

Truth, Fill them with ....

[Hakurah]

Oops, true. Sorry. Gonna fix that in the tut. =)

[Linear88]

Truth, Fill them with ....

No, fill them with Hex 00. That's 2E.

[Hakurah]

No, fill them with Hex 00. That's 2E.

That's how I put it in the tutorial after you said it. =)

[Mambo]

No, fill them with Hex 00. That's 2E.

I always fill my open space with dots (In the text part not in the hex codes), it's working fine

[Hakurah]

Well it does work fine most of the time but for other times you'll just have your screenshots folder appear somewhat like "MamboGunz..."

If someone else is telling you the right, risk free way to do it, why would you ever stick to writing dots all over your runnable? :(