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[igi]

Lo folks,
One of my many projects is research into the BG2 .exe*. I'm concentrating on the 26498 version of the .exe (the latest ToB patch, excluding the crappy 26499 version). My question is this:

Do all versions (English, American, European, Martian etc) of BG2 use an identical .exe file?

I believe they do - I tried installing the foreign version 26498 patch, and the resulting bgmain.exe file was always the same, but... confirmation by other people is always good I remember something about the Czech version of the IWD .exe having some sections encrypted differently.. does this apply to BG2 at all?
IIRC, the MD5 of the UK 26498 bgmain.exe is b519702eec18da69c846c3bdbebac438, if anyone has the MD5's of the other language versions, I'd be grateful.

* = No, it *wont* enable more people in the party. No, it *wont* add more animation slots. No, it *wont* do <insert any request, at all, ever). It's just research.

[Chevar]

Regarding animation slots.. did you check replacing the FAL_??? values with actual M??? values yet?

[Erephine]

*smacks hand against forehead*

-edit (to include productive content)

Yep, as far as I know all BG2.exe files are identical. However, this was NOT the case with BG1 IIRC.

Edited by Lightspeed, 04 November 2004 - 04:55 PM.

[Isaya]

I checked the MD5 for the french version. It's identical to yours.

[igi]

Thanks for the feedback folks

[Vlasák]

I remember something about the Czech version of the IWD .exe having some sections encrypted differently.. does this apply to BG2 at all?
IIRC, the MD5 of the UK 26498 bgmain.exe is b519702eec18da69c846c3bdbebac438, if anyone has the MD5's of the other language versions, I'd be grateful.

With IWD2, there was the problem that some European versions have exe with different (better) protection. AFAIK it was the problem of Polish or French (and probably other) IWD2 version too.

For BG2 - I have just the first version what has been released in Czech (non-translated). MD5 is identical with yours. However, there is the second version (fully translated) - I will have access to it on the weekend, so I'll try to found out the checksum of its bgmain. But I'm sure that xppatcher works with it - so it is probably ok too (same size as one of the right exe version - in other case, xppatcher doesn't work).

Edited by Vlasák, 10 November 2004 - 11:57 AM.

[Vlasák]

As I've supposed - the second version of BG2 fully translated to Czech has the same checksum as your BGMain.

[igi]

Awesome, thanks