Closed AlSar163 closed 2 years ago
nlgxzef
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2 years ago Hi and thanks for the wall of text. Unfortunately, Extra Options is only developed for the most common versions of the games. It's easier for you to get US version instead of us doing everything from zero to support specific versions. Sorry for that.
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AlSar163
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2 years ago Hi, nlgxzef! I'll remember your new nickname =)
Thank you for the quick response. Of course I understand that the amount of work on Extra Options is huge. If it's not a simple task to adapt ExOpts for other EXEs than I fully understand that you decided to focus on only one specific version.
I'll try to figure out how to combine US executable with Russian EU release and possibly even with the localization.
Thank you once again for your great work. Regards, AlSar.
Hello, nlgzrgn and other ExOpts Team members!
Thank you for your great and invaluable work on classic NFS titles! I usually use ExtraOptions scripts without any difficulties but recently ran into a problem with NFSU Extra Options.
In the Readme you mention the support of v1.4 speed.exe (3,03 MB (3.178.496 bytes)) and advise to search for NFS Underground v1.4 NO CD Crack DRUNK!. As far as I understood, according to gamecopyworld database, by above statements you mean the support of v1.4 US No-CD executable (by DEViANCE).
The problem is that US-regional executable can't be used properly with EU-regional releases due to different file structure of cutscenes etc. Personally, I'm using official Russian release of NFSU (v1.4 by SoftClub) and always get either a black screen or a flickering freeze with US EXE.
If I try to use EU-regional executable, namely v1.4 EU No-CD (by SPiRiTY) which has the same size of 3.178.496 bytes (3,03 MB) as you requested I can launch the game at least but ExOpts suffer from reduced functionality. E.g. UnlockAllThings, AutoDrive and FreezeCamera don't work at all. RacerControllers displays its option but regardless of choice there are always 4 opponents. However, all the other options seem to work fine and as intended.
When I try to use RU-regional executable which is v1.4 RU No-CD (by Z0oMiK) it has slightly different size of 3.183.036 bytes (3,03 MB) and ExOpts doesn't start at all displaying promt that "This .exe is not supported".
EU EXE renders the game to work in English with occasional text coding errors like Óèêèïåäèÿ. Russian localization seems to be EXE-dependent as registry settings remain the same (HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\EA GAMES\NFS Underground) with Language=Russian and Locale=ru and language file replacement result in complete "Óèêèïåäèÿ_".
As I prefer to use the localized version, I can't make it work with ExOpts by any means. I tried using ExOpts features ShowLanguageSelectScreen and GameRegion. The former results in game crash after trying to select anything other than English. The latter doesn't affect localization in any way regardless of used number. Meanwhile other popular script named NFSU WS Fix (by ThirteenAG) works fine with all EXE's. Also, NFSMW ExOpts works as intended with both EU and RU executables of MW respectively.
So my questions or requests are the following: 1) Is it possible to make EU EXE fully compatible with ExOpts? This EXE can be found on gamecopyworld by the name NFS: Underground v1.4 [EURO] No-CD/Fixed EXE 2) Is it possible to make RU EXE compatible with ExOpts? At least partially just like EU EXE is currently working... This EXE can be found on gamecopyworld by the name NFS: Underground - SoftClub v1.4.0 [RUSSIAN] No-CD/Fixed EXE
Thank you for your attention in advance! Best wishes, AlSar.
P.S. And of course I maybe doing something wrong. Perhaps I can find some Russian compatriots here or other competent people who can point out my mistakes.