Hex Offsets in BGmain.exe for Starting XP

[cirerrek]

I've got the offsets for two patched Windows versions of BG2:TOB.

 

Does anyone know the offsets for starting XP in the various SOA versions of the game?

 

// ToB version 24698

COPY_EXISTING ~bgmain.exe~ ~bgmain.exe~

WRITE_LONG 0x006B7258 0x0274E8

IF_SIZE_IS 7839790

 

// ToB version 24699

COPY_EXISTING ~bgmain.exe~ ~bgmain.exe~

WRITE_LONG 0x006B6270 0x0274E8

IF_SIZE_IS 7843886

 

Perchance does anyone know of any other mods that modify BGmain.exe? I ask because if those mods change the size of BGmain.exe, then the installation of this mod would fail.

 

Thanks,

[Creepin]

Perchance does anyone know of any other mods that modify BGmain.exe? I ask because if those mods change the size of BGmain.exe, then the installation of this mod would fail.

I've always used no-cd cracks for IE games that did pretty same thing - patches .exe files. Dunno if this actually changes the size of files though, but if it does, no mod is worthy enough to suffer the pain of bother with discs IMO

[Avenger]

There might be some national versions with different length and xp offset.

I've already released an xp patcher for tob/soa which knows about 5 versions.

[Thauron]

If you are looking for a way to change starting XP which should work for all existing BG2 versions, you should look at this thread and the attachment: http://forums.spellholdstudios.net/index.php?showtopic=19164

[Aragorn II]

I agree that no one should have to go through the hassle of handling all those CDs, though I just make an image of the CD and use Daemon Tools.