New Idea(maybe old) for dual games [Archive] - ForumsHQ

[Stupid]

I am sure this has probably been done and thought of before but I have never seen it anywhere so I thought I would mention it.

What I did, the hexing and renaming of files for mud to create the dual games. I then hexed the files for the second game again to point to the same user file of the first game.

I did this with WG 2.0 and mmud 1.1n and 1.0y having the 1.0y use the 1.1n user file.

I was able to load the bbs up and then was able to share the same user file. Go into one game, create a character and then go into the other and already have the character made being the same class race level experience ect. ect. .....

This also works fine so far having a user in each game with no problems appearing.

This would be pretty cool to use to have one game PVP and one game no PVP or anything really. Or have a classic game and a modern game which I was trying to do by using two different versions.

The problem I had was when I would pick up new items in the 1.1n game and then keep them on the character and go into 1.0y, the items would poof.

There is a way to fix this but it would require that I had the wccupdat.dat for the 1.0y game, which I don't.

All that would be required is to take the files for the newer game and then do an update using the system menu of mmud using the old wccupdat.dat. This in theory should just copy over the records for the item numbers that the old wccupdat.dat knows about leaving the file the same size and keeping the new items as is.

This way you could now copy the dat files over to the older second game and not have a problem with items spoofing and other problems caused by not having a record for the item number given.

Please post any thoughts or suggestions.

[Xetox]

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[Stupid]

Yeah I know that the two games have been run together but I have never seen anything where people had the user files being shared.

[admiralacid]

yeah xetox - don't you ever read the whole post....

hey stupid, why u running version 'n' and version 'y' - why arn't u running the same version for both realms

[Stupid]

Thats what I had, and I didn't see a point in exiting one realm to go back into the exact same version since I didn't have it edited or anything.

I am not actually running those versions for use just testing.