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Replace the logfile.dat in your players folder with this one.
You'll lose any progress with that player though.

This is turning into the world's longest forensic study, but I'll get there eventually. So, to recap, all the ADF did.dat variants contain the same number of files, 12842. From the latest list of file names (Thanks Menrva!) , we know the names of 12154 of them. Of these, there is some difference in ...

This game's original title was called 'Goldrunner III' according to this. http://obligement.free.fr/articles/itwkenwright.php Well, you live and learn... Now I need to find out what happened to 'Goldrunner I' and 'Goldrunner II' :D EDIT: Actually, no I don't as the 'III' was probably a misunderstand...

I believe the problem with the insignia is that planes that are designated NATO have US markings. While you alter the static missions to change them to BRITISH, and missions generated by the campaign will put them back to NATO again. So, a well placed hex edit is likely the best solution, to change ...

I eventually got around to checking those 5.144 Patch files, and there are 207, of which we have the names of 206. These are identical across all the language installations with or without RSO.
That's good news...

I feel the need to post something now and again, if only as some encouragement to myself.

This is not a particularly enjoyable process, so only do bits now and then.
I kind of regret starting with ADF as that seems the least relevant, but maybe TAW and EF2000 will be worse.

Only had time to show that the 3 types of DID1ST.DAT are identical in the various language and DX/Glide installations.
I guess I need to show that the patch files are the same between the 'patch only' and 'RSO+Patch' DID1ST.DAT next.

There was one DID.DAT in a Spanish ADF installation that was new to us, although it doesn't contain anything radically different. The files with different content are exactly the same ones that cause the different sizes of the other 5 DID.DATs Moving on to RSO and the patches, we have various combin...

Speaking of Menrva, I should go through his ADF collection as well, as he has the French, Spanish and Italian installations and all the patches in that mega upload from a few days ago.

Check which one made it into the patches! Yes, not much point in dealing with these files until we look at the patch dats, but just trying out Winmerge (thanks for the tip!) on the first in the list to make sure there actually was a difference. Of the 1131 unknown files, 31 have some differences: T...

Hola! Which of these is the best?

Some more analysis, but the next step is probbaly going to be manual The following files have different lengths across the 5 datasets almost_ger adf_eng adf_ger adf_odd adf_patched name 11587 11587 11587 11587 11512 f22data/spanish/option.gdd 1171 1171 1166 1171 1166 f22data/spanish/mphelp.gdd 1034 ...

Ah, yes. The presence of the icon doesn't necessarily mean the feature is complete.

In my last post; i hadn't totally expunged the Italian did.dat from my calculations.
Having done that now, we have 11646 identical files, only leaving 65 that have some difference between the 5 reamaining sets.

Ah.yes. There's a lot of zeroes in the Italian did.dat.
Removing it from my comparison gives 10619 identical files in the other 5 sets.

Looks like they had some of TAW in place when ADF was released....

Well, here you go...
There's some pictures I haven't seen before in the 'unknown' sections, but many, if not most, are irrelevant to the game

I can upload the 6 extracted datasets here if you want. It's a 188MB file.
I haven't yet put all the identical files off to one side, but will try to ratrionalize things as time permits.

Can’t you just extract every dat to its own directory... Yes, that's what I did yesterday. But then I zipped up those 6 directories into one file to make the data easier to handle on a USB stick. I don't do things very efficiently as I need to swap between PCs with different OS in various locations...

The dats I have are all slightly different in size, 'modified' date. It's just that they are all identical for the parameters I've looked at so far, which led me to make sure I wasn't loading the same file all the time due to some coding incompetence. No doubt the mystery will be explained when I co...

All 6 did.dats contain 12842 files, so either there are some differences in their contents...or I've somehow been analyzing the same file 6 times. I don't think so, but I went through the code just in case.

A quick update to prove that I am still looking into this task from time to time... To start, I'm comparing 6 ADF did.dats and ignoring the patches, RSO and the Japanese version for now. These 6 are from the English, German and Italian releases, plus what Krishty has called 'Almost German', 'Odd' an...