Updated DisableTag.ini

[xSpeedx]

There is plenty of information on this forum to change the festival, changing the disabletag should not be the hard bit. There is various tools that can do it, and you do no need to repack it back into the client. You can run it through a data folder as was already explained by Mollo on a previous thread, its then simply a case of changing the localisation folder inside the update.inf.

Just for the record, "there is plenty of information on this forum" and "there are various tools" is pretty much the equivalent of "i cba explaining". This "figure it out yourself" kinda mindset on this forum is bad enough and a terrible example that should not be followed, ever. This section especially is very unclear on a lot of stuff.

And since you claim that the disabletag file does not need to be repacked into data.fdb, let me ask you this:
- Why does CDWriter specifically instruct to change that?

as for you Data.fdb you need to change your disabletag_XX.ini based on your country to have NO events turned ON ... This way the server and cleint when loaded will see the Data folder and Use the file inside ....

Neither danny's thread nor mollo include that step. Is it false?


And how do I correctly edit the localization.ini within update.inf without fail? I'll add the steps I took in a spoiler here:

Spoiler:

I opened update.inf in Winrar via rightclick as instructed and then doubleclicked the ini file. I entered the correct password (tarubK2Vy5gT8Xo6) and It opened in notepad and I was able to change the festival filter there. Upon saving, Winrar showed a popup which asked if I wanted to renew the changed file. I clicked yes and it was added back into the update.inf.

But when starting the game, I didn't get an EULA or a login screen. Just the blank animated background.

Aside from that, I also tried extracting the file, packing it back into a rar file and renaming that to update.inf which made the client fail to start.

[Beerpyrs]

You have to extract the file from the data.fdb yes, but where does Cdwriter say to pack it back in? "This way the server and cleint when loaded will see the Data folder". To me clearly seems like its being ran externally.

Mollo already explained in depth in another post how to get it working.

what todo to change the festival:

1. you need to update the "specialEventFilter" inside "localization.ini" inside "update.inf"
&
2. you need to add an ";" in front of the festival ID you wanna run inside of "disabletag_XX.ini" (xx means your language setup!) inside " data" inside data.fdb.

I`m not trying to explain how to get the changes done since your problems focus on where to place the files!
The disabletag_XX.ini needs to be inside the data folder which is is your default game directory!

(ex.
c:/RoM/client.exe
c:/RoM/fdb/data.fdb
c:/RoM/data <- this is the folder you are looking for! (you need to create this folder)
c:/RoM/update.inf

& for the server:

c:/RoMServer/Zones/zone.exe
c:/RoMServer/resources/fdb/
c:/RoMServer/resource/wdb/
c:/RoMServer/resource/data/) <- this is the folder you are looking for! (you need to create this folder)

Well and since the update.inf is just a zip you have to make your changes inside the "localization.ini", save it, close the file and 7zip will automatically ask you if you wanna replace the old file version with yours.

I can suggest not using winrar for editing the update.inf always had issues with it, use 7zip its much more reliable. If the EULA and login screen is missing it means that your update.inf got messed up.

[xSpeedx]

as for you Data.fdb you need to change your disabletag_XX.ini

I meant this part from him. To be honest, his instructions are very difficult to read on some parts (which I had pointed out anyway). The info about Winrar having issues is new though, I'll try 7zip instead. When I had the EULA and login screen missing, I already assumed that the inf file got screwed over somehow. When I tried that, I had a backup anyway, so there was no real loss.

I also got the paths right, that part is dead obvious and easy to read indeed. My problem was changing the disabletag inside data.fdb as CDWriter said and the update.inf getting screwed, likely by Winrar as you said.


Also, to be perfectly clear: The language setting is important, correct? Mollo says the diabletag.ini depends on the language setting, while CDWriter points at the country code instead.


Edit: I managed to correctly edit the localization.ini file and changed the disabletag.ini to disable halloween and enable SpringRain Festival. However, the game still loaded the halloween festival. My language setup is german, so I used the disabletag_de.ini file.

[CDWriter]

Sounds right...

[andelwol26]

hello, i disabled the 6y ROM in GER. But der server is sending the pakets for the 6th anniversary to the players. Does anyone have a clue where that could that come from?
the npcs where not spawned.
thank you in advance