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I made quick-and-dirty solution for this problem, for DVD version of game only. There is need to change only four bytes. In WC4DVD.EXE v3.01 (772608 bytes in length) from DVD or GOG version of game:0004E236: 4C 6C 0004E237: B8 D3 0004E2EB: 74 90 0004E2EC: 21 90Or, in WC4DVD.EXE v3.02 (773120...

This is a beta/demo of game translation: full translation of "introductory" mission A1 including mission briefing, nav map, targets, weapons and radio communication subtitles;some fonts slightly changed for better readability;when run, game creates subdirectory XLAT-DMP and dumps untranslated...

Bug appears in all versions of game I've checked: WC4.EXE v1.04 and WC4W.EXE v2.08 (6-CD version), WC4DVD.EXE v3.01 ("canonical" DVD version) and v3.02 (from DVD Upgrade patch).

I'm translating WC4 into Russian, and I found a strange bug with subtitles of battle communication. When comm video is on, the subs looking fine. But if video disappears (off by Ctrl-V, or by switching comm VDU to shields/damages/etc.) the subs start running about twice faster. This bug is not...

One more detail about WC1. When I played this game for second or third time (maaany years ago) I noticed that Kilrathis like can teach some tricks from me. Then, I looked at savegame files by hex editor and noticed that few dozens of bytes near end of each savegame were mostly empty (are zero...

So, can these movies be converted to AVIs simply by reconstruction of AVI headers? And how can I reconstruct them? Thanks, I'll try this. No, I don't want neither dubbing nor voiceover, I want to keep original actor voices. So I'll make subtitled translation only.

Yes, I've reconstructed formats of nearly all items: guns+missiles, nav map objects, targets, communication subtitles. Of course, few inscriptions in cockpit remain untranslated, and I suspect they are simply "painted" into cockpit picture: I plan to translate game and upload translation of A...

How can I rip and play in-flight radio communication movies from DVD version WC4 movies*.tre files? These aren't AVI - extracted IFFs look like this:0000000000: 30 30 64 62 84 09 00 00 │ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00dbД○ 0000000010: 00 00 00 00 20 20 20 11 │ 0C 0F 0D 0A 10 12 13 0E...

I'm sorry but your format of .tre don't look like that in WC3/WC4. For example, take look at HCl's XTRE format description. Or, take my .tre extractor&maker (written in C).

Can you please repeat this experiment once more, for a purpose of pinpoint a reason of hanging more precisely? I have remade dxmci.dll so it can collect more info before hanging and have more chance to dump collected info to log file. Attachment contains new .dll and .ini files; this version...

Ah, I understood. Compatibility mode for .exe based on its name.

Оh, thanks. That means (and logs confirm) that my .dll had serious error leading game to lock yourself. I.e. "missing movie" error occurs before DirectShow begin bulding a filtergraph; thus, none of DShow filters or renderers can be accused of error. This is strange. There may be reason of such...

Look here: https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/10776

OK, thanks. This is a log created by dxmci.dll from GOG or HCl, and it says that filtergraph was built OK and therefore dxmci.dll you use can successfully play movies. That\'s good. So, let\'s run two more experiments: delete all *.log files, backup your dxmci.dll and replace it with contents of...

Oops. Then, you need to temporary replace wc4dvd.exe file with one from DVD wersion. In this attachment, there are three .exe files: from DVD, from GOG and from DVD patched to work with Windows 2000/XP, Backup existing wc4dvd.exe and dxmci.dll, replace them (I recommend to start from DVD version...

Yes, main problem was to find where are game fonts; without Steel Rat's GBS I even didn't know how to begin font searching. Also, remake of dxmci.dll is a highly labor-consuming part of translation, especially as I was not familiar with DirectShow at all when I began to work. But then, ripping...

If you run WC4 2000 DVD version (not GOG one), try replace its dxmci.dll with my version of one - see attachment: unpack all files to game directory. It is configured for maximum detailed log of DirectShow filters. Then, put this log (in game directory, there will be file(s) named like...

Slightly updated version of treutils is incorporated into Russian translation of WC4.

(for future use; my modifications of dxmci and other tech details will be described here)

I present my work in progress: Russian translation of Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom. This is the add-on to DVD version of game and based on deep mod of dxmci.dll; six-CD version upgraded by DVD upgrade patch is suitable too. Unfortunately the GOG version of WC4 isn't supported by my...