Re: DID.DAT files and their contents
Posted: 2023-Apr-17, 19:33
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 combinations DirectX/Glide and languages. Luckily Menrva has done most of the work here and we have English, French, German, Spanish and Italian examples, although not quite every combination although I don't think that matters.
So, we have 3 different types of DID1ST.DAT.
1. For the 5.144 patch (7 examples)
2. RSO for the unpatched ADF (4 examples)
3. RSO for the patched ADF (4 examples)
So far, I've collected them together, extracted and decompressed them. While a detailed comparison of individual files still needs to be done, I can already say that like the main DID.DAT, these all contain the same number of files with the same names.
These are the folder and extensions used in each of the 3 types of DID1ST.DAT Note the position of say, 'f22data\' is different in the folder list, so I need to be careful with the unknown files since a file with the same name would have different hashes.
Moving on to RSO and the patches, we have various combinations DirectX/Glide and languages. Luckily Menrva has done most of the work here and we have English, French, German, Spanish and Italian examples, although not quite every combination although I don't think that matters.
So, we have 3 different types of DID1ST.DAT.
1. For the 5.144 patch (7 examples)
2. RSO for the unpatched ADF (4 examples)
3. RSO for the patched ADF (4 examples)
So far, I've collected them together, extracted and decompressed them. While a detailed comparison of individual files still needs to be done, I can already say that like the main DID.DAT, these all contain the same number of files with the same names.
These are the folder and extensions used in each of the 3 types of DID1ST.DAT Note the position of say, 'f22data\' is different in the folder list, so I need to be careful with the unknown files since a file with the same name would have different hashes.