Does anyone have a 1942 exe that doesn't start Origin?

nämeless · 2012-12-27 00:07:16

tuia wrote:

Heh, I think this is one of those problems where you don't have to be logical. I've wasted some hours with it and the answer will be comical.

What's your reply to this?

tuia · 2012-12-27 00:10:54

I don't know the answer, but I don't give up easily.

joint · 2012-12-27 01:02:21

Argothman wrote:

but now I can convert from decimal to binary to hex in my head.

damn you, nämeless

nämeless · 2012-12-28 07:50:18

As I said earlier, Tuia, once I spent one day to solve this riddle. It was in elementary school about 20 years ago.

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joint · 2012-12-28 12:25:35

damn, i knew its something like that when you wrote to open eyes

Denny · 2012-12-28 14:10:32

so stupid just like sudoku

tuia · 2012-12-30 17:32:04

nämeless, your problem was misleading. I looked at it and first thing i thought was, it must be some logical or arithmetic operations with those hexadecimal numbers. But after some time, i concluded it's just not solvable. After seeing hexadecimal numbers, I could not change my mind. It's hard to switch back from one point of view to another. Anyway, I did not expect you were so deceptive and made us all waste hours trying to solve a basic problem, I thought it could involve some complex operations.

nämeless · 2012-12-30 18:22:44

Tuia, here is the explanation.

nämeless wrote:

I spent one day to solve this riddle. It was in elementary school about 20 years ago.

Take it easy, it's just a riddle for children. It was for you personally because you are not a child and if you see something like "1A8C", you think it's hexadeсimal.

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ATF_SurrenderMonkey · 2013-01-25 21:42:01

try free software for 10 days mac, "crossover" emulates windows...i installed it, can open origin but the download just sits there....of course, i am not IT savvy so have no clue what i am doing wrong, will have to wait till my son comes over to check it.

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/

CossRooper · 2013-02-06 22:17:15

So... this modified .exe is very relevant to my interests as well. I can't stand origin.

Any way you could post the patch contents or the bytes we should edit to do it ourselves?

Edit: I have 1942 working in Linux via PlayOnLinux/Wine! However, Origin is very clunky, especially running in this configuration... this exe would be very helpful.

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CossRooper · 2013-02-22 10:50:04

FYI everyone, NoFate, a BF3 hacker, has made a site that strips out the Origin requirements from each Origin game's .par files and spits out a replacement .par file to put in its place. This means that most Origin games that don't depend on the Origin .exe in memory can be run without starting Origin or having it open.

Here's the site: http://par.nofate.me/

Just tried it, works great.

Also, in regards to OP: tuia has released a modified .exe in the "1942 released for free" thread which does exactly what you want.

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tuia · 2013-02-26 00:41:30

Thanks for the information, it's great. It works flawlessy with BF1942, but I prefer my solution. It has widescreen fix included and starts just a little bit faster.

mrjingles · 2013-02-26 02:23:34

i replaced the origin bf1942.exe with the modified one from tuia and battlefield is working without problems...
i can see 1.61 and 1.6 servers in the game browser as well but i can't join... for example to SiMPLE.
i still get the message "Data differs from server"

is this meant to be as it is or is my game bugged?

tuia · 2013-02-26 12:32:59

Repair your BF1942 Origin install or reinstall the game:

This will reset all your game settings (video, sound, controls). Then copy file from the package (BF1942.exe) to your Origin GamesBattlefield 1942 folder.

mrjingles · 2013-02-26 16:19:39

Thanks for that!

So far it is working fine. I can connect to 1.612 server and the SiMPLE server. However, when i try to connect e.g. to {FG} Aberdeen only which is declared as 1.61 without punkbuster i get the error message "invalid cd-key"! Is this some server side restriction?

I get the same error message when i try to connect to 1.61 servers that have punkbuster enabled. But i think that is normal, right?

Further, when i try to connect to BiHnet BF1942 1.6 (no punkbuster) i get the error message "failed to connect to server"
shouldn't it be possible to connect to 1.6 as well?

s[sk] · 2013-02-26 18:07:45

mrjingles wrote:

So far it is working fine. I can connect to 1.612 server and the SiMPLE server. However, when i try to connect e.g. to {FG} Aberdeen only which is declared as 1.61 without punkbuster i get the error message "invalid cd-key"! Is this some server side restriction?

you can't connect to 1.61 servers that check keys with your origin key
if you have valid key, you can try to copy it to origin's ergc in registry

Further, when i try to connect to BiHnet BF1942 1.6 (no punkbuster) i get the error message "failed to connect to server"
shouldn't it be possible to connect to 1.6 as well?

no, unless server is patched

mrjingles · 2013-02-26 19:14:25

Thanks for the tipp, ssk!
replacing the origin cd-key with the one from my cd version works fine!

Seems like i still need my installation of the cd version in case i want to play on a punkbuster servers.
Anyway many thanks for that modified exe and all the work you guys put in that game.

s[sk] · 2013-02-26 19:43:59

mrjingles wrote:

Seems like i still need my installation of the cd version in case i want to play on a punkbuster servers.

but you don't need origin installation

just rename that exe from zip to something like bf1942_origin.exe and put it into your cd game dir
then you just run either bf1942.exe or bf1942_origin.exe, depending on the version you want

the rest of files is the same

mrjingles · 2013-02-27 02:15:59

once again... thanks alot!
you guys are simply great

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