Birth of the Federation

I think I've fixed the problem. As usual, it's a bug in BotF, not the video files. According to the AVI specifications, AVI is an extensible format. Applications are supposed to skip chunks of data in the AVI stream that they don't understand, so as to make the format extensible. Many modern encoder...

Thanks for testing adi.

So far it's looking like ASLR is not an issue. We've had four people test it across multiple systems with no indication of trouble so far.

I don't know if this helps, but the Falcon 4 source code has the movie code for BotF. I compared the code in falcon4sc/movie against Trek.exe, and they match almost exactly. By the looks of the code, it doesn't matter what codec is used, since it uses the Windows API ICDecompressOpen() to find the r...

and later on the launcher can be extended to select load and patch mods with no seperate botf install and without moving files around (and so also drive all the multi installers obsolete and simplify mod development) Last year I built a demo mod manager that could do this. Basically I patched the D...

After a little talk with flocke, I went over my old notes. Here's how I inject code into trek.exe: Make a DLL called "injected.dll". It doesn't need any exported functions, just DllMain. Then use this trek.exe patch: NAME: DLL Injection DESC: Injects a DLL named "injected.dll". A...

Video resolution is 800x600, which I think is the same resolution as the vanilla race intros. Actually the original videos are 800x300. I know from the trek.exe code that the game shifts the video vertically 140 pixels to center it on the screen. Maybe that's why it doesn't work. You could try edit...

thunderchero wrote:could adi just right click and run as admin instead of using Process Explorer?

Yeah, it would be probably be smarter to do that first.
If it comes out all good when running as admin, there's no need to run process explorer.

Thanks adi, that's interesting. The first error indicates that my program probably didn't have permission to access the info it needed, so maybe it needs admin rights. So the message about the base address could be wrong... hmmm. If you don't mind helping a little more, the following information wou...

Agreed, it would safer just to remove the relocations, and fix the energy screen patch (probably by enlarging the data section). will have to read some up on your topics and see how I can transform mpr++ to a plugin instead :roll: Maybe not. I've done further testing on the old method I used, and it...

I tested using both files you uploaded. Ah, sorry, it's actually the same program. I put the link in twice by mistake (I added the short version afterwards). I've removed the second link to avoid further confusion. vanilla, ECM, ECML, UDM and UDML all tested "All Good" Thanks for testing....

Short version I think a Windows security feature might be causing problems with some BotF mods, so I've written a little program to check for this. You can get it here . Just start up BotF, minimize it, and run the downloaded program (trekbase.exe). Let me know what it says. It should either say &q...

I would agree that some mods do make the game more unstable than usual, particularly for multiplayer. I love BoP. And it's one of the most stable mods for multiplayer. However, the last few times I've played it (both single and multiplayer), when it crashed out, it corrupted the save files (both las...

I have new little patch for you guys. It fixes one of the most annoying bugs in BotF: it stops the end credits from appearing when exiting via the quit button. Enjoy. NAME: Disable the end credits when exiting the game DESC: Disables those pesky credits when exiting the game with the quit button. AU...

I'm really not sure what to do about the conflicting patches. Different mods use different patches. Having them in there allows those patches to be uninstalled and new ones installed. However, most people (myself included) can't tell which patches are old and which are new. Maybe I should add a new ...

I've updated the cloak default patch to include the "attack system" fixes.

Also I've added a new "Open URL" button in the patcher.

As usual, get the latest release here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bofpatcher/files/