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Thanks to Krishty, we recovered the Japanese version of ADF and its Desert Mission add-on (the Japanese version of Red Sea Operations). I packaged all combinations I could possibly install, but there are oddities to talk about.

The Japanese version of F22 ADF and its DM expansion is so damned ...

I have only replaced the DID.dat and added the 3 folder with the German efa.3 model. Which DID.dat are you using, or have you removed it? Could imagine that maybe the files are possibly incomplete, i.e. missing from the DID.dat and in extracted form? Where are the "unknown files placed in their ...

Which exe are you using? I only use the Graphics+ version off the V2.0 CD. That works fine for the scenarios that I usually run.


I'm using the same one, but mission loading hangs at 42% on my end for some reason. I added your edited EFA with RAF markings alongside the other extracted files you ...

bored wrote: ↑2024-Apr-29, 21:18 It should be enough to run both games using the extracted data.

Thanks! I tried with those unpacked, game locks during loading of World at 42%. It's not enough yet it seems, but you're getting close! Keep up the great work!

Just to clarify that this did.dat is only compatible with the existing Reloaded or V2.0 and not the European versions


I tried it in EF2000 v2.0, apparently turned all game strings from English to German. Have you repacked the English DID.DAT?
I'd like to unpack the game files myself, are you ...

Well, that seemed to work although I'm not sure how to best package the solution.


For a customized 40th Anniversary release, I think it'd be best to have all game files (or most of them) in unpacked form, just like what was done with TAW 2.0. That way, we can use tools like Generic Mod Enabler ...

Well, that seemed to work although I'm not sure how to best package the solution.
I've edited the model files and removed the original model efa.3 from did.dat.
I've then created a new did.dat (from the files I happen I to have handy, which may not be complete) and moved the EF2000 models to a '3 ...

Hello Menvra,

were you the creator of the ef2000fix.exe as well? I think it was only posted at the former combatsim forums. I think it's useful to share this tool for those who like to run the 95 version.


No, I'm not the author of that fix. I can't recall where I got it from. On my end it ...

It would be good to have an European version of EF2000, patched all the way to Graphics+, but I'm not sure if anybody ever managed to do that. :)


I think I did that already, here: http://simforums.krishty.com/viewtopic.php?t=426
I patched the original EF2000 with all available patches, also ...

I can definitely help about making such an installer, I'm quite skilled with Inno Setup, so we can look for previous installations of those games and for their files as requirements, among registry checks if required.

About the No Fly Zone over the Red Sea, which areas exactly? I find it interesting. I know that if you fly out of bounds in TAW, you get that message by ATC not to fly into restricted airspace, soon before the mission is stopped/closed automatically. Quite a clever solution compared to what I saw in ...

For fun I ran this names list with the Python scripts to unpack ADF's and TAW's DID.DAT archives. We uncovered 8 new files of the unknown ones from F22 ADF/TAW, they're the following:

3\init3d.txt
ss\ex_w_2.ssd
ss\ex_w_3.ssd
ss\ex_w_4.ssd
ss\ex_w_5.ssd
3\xkab500l.3
3\xs_eagle.3
ss\xs5_rock.ssd ...

Hi, gents! As previously shared on Discord, this package includes all English versions of EF2000 I was able to find and install on a proper Win98 system thanks to a VM:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13HlYknsZ3B4TO9O87Vk5UQi8keN4O8iZ/view?usp=share_link

Please take note of the following:

Super ...

As previously shared on Discord, this package includes all language versions of F22 ADF/RSO/TAW I was able to find and install on a proper Win98 system thanks to a VM:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UGzMl6wkFbYtxKk6SNVYqjkg9C2k1knL/view?usp=share_link

Be sure to have enough space, the package ...